Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all of the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our Top 5 Grand Prizes! Hi! My name is Jill Eileen Smith and I write Bible […]
Anniversary Thoughts
We are celebrating our 46th wedding anniversary this Sunday. Actually, we’re taking the whole weekend to enjoy some “us” time, which is pretty great! Today Randy came up with some fun things to do, a couple of estate sales, and yes, we bought a few things. Randy was looking for a six foot ladder, and […]
Why Joshua said, “Choose Life.”
Choose Life. We know those words. They’ve been the banner cry of the pro-life movement for years and years. But did you know that those two words did not come from our modern thinking? In fact, to be “pro-life” has ancient roots. God has always given humanity a choice between life and death. Go back […]
Why does the Bible make a big deal about salt?
Have you ever thought about salt? Other than to shake it onto your food or if you live in Michigan your roads in winter, you might not consider how many different ways salt is mentioned in the Bible. In my reading of the Gospel of Mark the other night, I ran across this passage: “For […]
No other gods
I’m reading a book called The Return of the Gods by Jonathan Cahn and finding it fascinating. If you’ve ever wondered what is behind ancient Israel’s idolatry and America’s fall away from the Judeo-Christian worldview, I highly recommend this book. As I’ve been reading though, it occurred to me that it is no mistake or […]