Please join us in today’s prayer, written by a member of ACFW’s Forty Days of Prayer team. Day 38 (counting down to Day 1): Topic: For all attending to rest in God’s timing for their lives Scripture: Psalm 27:14 (NLT): “Wait patiently for the LORD. Be brave and courageous. Yes, wait patiently for the LORD.” Dear Jesus, we come to …
ACFW Conference Prayer: Day 39
Please join us in today’s prayer, written by a member of ACFW’s Forty Days of Prayer team. Day 39 (counting down to Day 1) For: The Audio/Visual Team Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 1:2-3–We give thanks to God always for all of you, making mention of you in our prayers. Dear Father God, You are endlessly creative, and we thank you how …
ACFW Conference Prayer: Day 40
Please join us in today’s prayer, written by a member of ACFW’s Forty Days of Prayer team. Day 40 (counting down to Day 1) For: God’s Presence and Blessing at Conference Scripture: Psalm 127:1–Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman keeps awake in vain. Dear Heavenly …
Suffer the Children
by M.D. House @real_housemd Almost everyone has a tender spot in their heart for children. That is because we are sons and daughters of God; his natural tenderness toward the innocent, the vulnerable, and the teachable was passed on to us. We can learn to ignore it, mute it, or shove it aside, and unfortunately some do. I love children, …
How to Love Social Media Without Going Crazy
By Cynthia Herron If you’re a writer, you may have a love-hate relationship with social media. I confess there are aspects of it I really like, and other aspects not so much. While I love to engage online with readers and friends, I also find it necessary to balance my social media time with writing. Over the years, I’ve learned …
What Turns Me Off as a Reader
by Jenny Powell MD I’ve been reading since I was four years old. My older sister taught me whilst playing school (I had always thought that since my mother was an elementary school teacher, she had taught us both. I assumed wrong.). I remember reading my first chapter book in third grade, the age at which they tested our reading …
Singing the Song of Freedom
by Christine Sunderland Today, July 9, is my birthday, nine months after my bones took flesh, searched out and known by the Lord of Hosts. Bursting into the world with my first breaths, five days after America’s Independence Day in 1947 (in Fresno, California), I left behind the comfortable creche of my mother’s womb. My mother, a graduate of Biblical …
Shhh!
by Angela Hunt Hello, ACFW! I hope you’re enjoying your summer and planning for the conference coming up in September. It’s going to be a great time! Anna Quindlen once wrote an insightful column for Newsweek. She wrote about solitude and explained that though she loves her family, she also loves time alone: “I like solitude. I can spend days happily …
ACFW New Releases: July 2024
July 2024 New ReleasesMore in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website Contemporary Romance: Renee by Sandra Ardoin — A bake-off competition can change widow Renee Burnette’s life and mend a frayed friendship. As the bake-off competition intensifies, Renee’s office relationships are strained, her sweet son becomes unruly, and the rift with her old …
When You Write With God
by Chandra Lynn Smith Some days the writing flows and I amaze myself with the inspiration of my words. And then…some days…well probably more than some days I feel more like the character on Grey’s Anatomy who decided to eat his manuscript because it was terrible. (Of course, that is not the best thing to do with a terrible manuscript!) …