Cradle My Heart

August 14, 2012

Abortion continues to be a hot topic in politics, women’s rights, and medical practice. But for the eight to ten million American Christian women who have had one, abortion is a spiritual issue as well, raising questions of life and death, heaven and hell, grief and loss.

Writing from her own experience, Kim Ketola sheds light on one of the darkest and most neglected personal issues of our time: the widespread need for healing and spiritual recovery after abortion. “After abortion brought the worst trouble into my life I had ever known,” writes Ketola, “I just couldn’t see my way free to believe in God’s love.”

With a compassionate heart, Ketola offers ten true stories of healing promise from the Bible to help women answer the most common spiritual torments they face: Is abortion a sin? Does God hate me? Where can I turn in my shame and distress? How could I ever tell anyone the truth? And more.

Inspired by Romans 6:4–“just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life”–this is a definitive resource to help women see themselves and God anew and–finally–to find spiritual healing.

My Review-Cradle My Heart

This book is amazing. As you know I placed my daughter for adoption so I have never had an abortion. This book even helped me with some of the issues I have had since I placed my daughter for adoption. I didn’t think I would get anything out of the book but after I finished the book I was so glad that I took the time to read it. There are so many great things about this book that there is no way that I can do justice to the book with a review. I would recommend this book to anyone who has had an abortion or even placed a child for adoption. This book gave me hope and made me see how I can make changes and get into a better place when it comes to dealing with my feelings from the adoption.

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Meet Kim-The Author

Kim Ketola is a sought-after writer and motivational speaker with the Ruth Graham and Friends conference. After thirty years in the broadcasting industry, she founded a nonprofit organization through which she presents professionally accredited conferences to equip counselors and help individuals recover from the emotional and spiritual wounds of abortion. Kim lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Visit her website: http://www.cradlemyheart.org

In coordination with the launch of their fall releases, Kregel will be hosting a live webcast event on September 20 at 8 PM EDT featuring authors Kim Ketola (Cradle My Heart), Teske Drake (Hope for Today, Promises for Tomorrow), and Dawn Scott Jones (When a Woman You Love Was Abused). The webcast will allow women to come together to share their struggles and fears in order to move toward healing and hope. Women will able to support one another and discuss shared experiences in a non-threatening, open and loving environment.

Cat Hoort of Kregel says, “”We are seeking to provide safe means for Christian women to be vulnerable with each other, to seek help and guidance from authors and counselors, and to find encouragement from those who have shared similar experiences. Our hope is that the Women Redeemed webcast will become a forum for hurting women as well as for those who can help. Kim, Teske, and Dawn are all survivors and their stories will surely inspire and equip other women to move toward healing and hope.”

To register for the event, just click here. {https://www.facebook.com/KregelBooks/app_241719209283045}

Inescapable

July 24, 2012

About

Lizzie Engel is used to running away. At eighteen, she left her Mennonite hometown, Kingdom, Kansas, with plans never to return.

But five years later, the new life she built is falling apart. Lizzie knows she’s being followed, and she’s certain the same mysterious stranger is behind the threatening letters she’s received. Realizing she’ll have to run again, the only escape Lizzie can manage is a return to the last place she wants to go.

Once she arrives in Kingdom, Lizzie is confident she’ll be safe until she comes up with a new plan. In reacquainting herself with the town and its people–especially her old friend, Noah Housler–she wonders if she judged her hometown and her Mennonite faith too harshly. However, just as she begins to come to terms with her roots, Lizzie is horrified to discover the danger she ran from is closer than ever.

No longer sure who to trust and fearful for her life and the lives of those around her, Lizzie finds she has only one place left to run–to the Father whose love is inescapable.

My Review

I really enjoyed everything about this book. It is another one that grab me right from the start and I couldn’t put the book down until I finished it. I feel in love with the main character and I loved seeing things through her eyes. When I read books I imagine I am there with them and I had no problems feeling like I was right there with her. I loved figuring out what was going on with her. The author does a great job of giving plenty of details but not giving away who does it. I really can’t wait to read more from her and read the other books in the series when they are released.

Submerged

July 2, 2012

About

A sabotaged plane. Two dead deep-water divers.
Yancey, Alaska was a quiet town . . . until the truth of what was hidden in the depths off the coast began to appear.
Bailey Craig vowed never to set foot in Yancey again. She has a past, and a reputation–and Yancey’s a small town. She’s returned to bury a loved one killed in the plane crash and is determined not to stay even an hour more than necessary. But then dark evidence emerges and Bailey’s own expertise becomes invaluable for the case. Cole McKenna can handle the deep-sea dives and helping the police recover evidence. He can even handle the fact that a murderer
has settled in his town and doesn’t appear to be moving on. But dealing with the reality of Bailey’s reappearance is a tougher challenge. She broke his heart, but she is not the same girl who left Yancey. He let her down, but he’s not the same guy she left behind. Can they move beyond the hurts of their pasts and find a future together?

My Review

I loved everything about this book. The minute I started the book I couldn’t put it down and read it all in one day. The characters instantly came alive to me. The author did a great job of grabbing my attention right away and held it through out the entire book. They made all the places and characters come alive. It had great suspense and kept me on the edge of my seat until it was over.

Father’s Day Poem Review

April 14, 2012

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I received this fathers day poem from Because I Tried It and I fell in love with it. It is the sweetest poem that I have read for fathers day in a long time. They have several different poems for Father’s Day and many other holiday’s. I got a customized Birthday Newspaper from them last year and it was also amazing! Because I tried it has tons of products that they will customize for you. They also give away free stuff all the time so make sure that you follow them on Facebook, Twitter, Google + and sign up for their newsletter. I would recommend this site to anyone who wants to give a great present to someone that will mean something to them!

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Defending Jacob

February 23, 2012

Book Description

Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.

Every parental instinct Andy has rallies to protect his boy. Jacob insists that he is innocent, and Andy believes him. Andy must. He’s his father. But as damning facts and shocking revelations surface, as a marriage threatens to crumble and the trial intensifies, as the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own—between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past he’s tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive.

Award-winning author William Landay has written the consummate novel of an embattled family in crisis—a suspenseful, character-driven mystery that is also a spellbinding tale of guilt, betrayal, and the terrifying speed at which our lives can spin out of control.

My Review

I can’t say enough good things about this book! I loved everything about this book and I didn’t want to put it down the entire time I was reading it. The author does a great job keeping the reader interested and making the characters totally relate able. I love how the book will go from the dad on testfiying before the grand jury and then telling the story through other parts. I didn’t expect the ending at all and this for sure a book that I be reading again and I am sure my family and friends will love this book as well. I loved reading about how each of the family members dealt with the pain and how it affected them. I am sure going to check out more books by this author.

If you haven’t read this book yet I strongly recommend it anyone. Here is the link to amazon where you can buy the book. If you pick it up please come back and let me know what you think of it.

If you have read it what did you think of it?

FTC-I received this book for free in return for my review. The opinions expressed in this post are 100% mine. I received no other compensation for this review.

Prescription to Kill

February 4, 2012

Back Of The Book

MEDICAL MYSTERY!
In a large teaching hospital in Dallas, Texas, the neurosurgery department has the usual mix of new and old interns with their usual mix of problems, but it also has a couple of unexpected and unexplained deaths.…

MEDICAL MAYHEM!
Joan Murdock, first-year neurosurgery intern, can’t save the life of a good friend whose death simply doesn’t make sense—or maybe makes too much sense….Next is a hospital pharmacist who perhaps knew too much….And then a grim attack on Joan herself….

MEDICAL MURDER!
The method’s unusual; the motive’s chilling. Add to the potent brew a couple of torrid love affairs and a secret drug addiction, and somebody’s got a…

PRESCRIPTION TO KILL!

My Review

I loved this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I could not put this book down because the characters are doctors and it is a mystery. I have never read a book like this before and now I am hooked on them. I loved the characters and I was sad when one of the main characters gets killed. I was also rooting for her best friend to figure out who killed her. Now I knew the main person they thought killed her didn’t do it but I couldn’t figure out who really did it. Every chapter when they found out something new I would change who I thought did it but I never would have figured out who really did it. After I found out who did it I just sat there in shock because I never would have guessed in 100 years that they did it. I also loved how the author wrote a little bit about most of the main characters right at the beginning so you would know a little about them and also so you can go back and look at them if you forget who someone is and how they tie into the story.

I can’t any enough good things about this book! Everyone needs to read this book! Go here and pick the book up you won’t regret it!

FTC-I received “Prescription To Kill” from Dorrance Publishing Co, Inc for me to review. I was not compensated in any other way. The opinions expressed in this review are 100% mine