Inspired by Life ... and Fiction

Novelists bound by the pen, sisterhood, & more

The Plot Thickens | Jerry Jenkins

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Each Sunday "Inspired by Life...and Fiction" shares a Christian novelist's newest book and the garden spots where they find inspiration. Dr. Jerry B. Jenkins, former vice president for publishing and now chairman of the board of trustees for the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, is the author of more than 180 books, including the 70,000,000-selling Left Behind series. Jerry Jenkins has been … [Read more...]

Seeing through rose-colored glasses

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I've been accused of seeing the world through rose-colored glasses. My mom tells people that when I was just a little girl, my little sisters and I had set up a tea party using the piano for a table. My sisters were upset when Mothe told us we had to move our party because our "tea" (colored water, actually) would ruin the piano if it spilled. But according to Mothe (that's not a typo... We call … [Read more...]

The Plot Thickens | Dave & Neta Jackson

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Each Sunday "Inspired by Life...and Fiction" shares a Christian novelist's newest book and the garden spots where they find inspiration. Dave & Neta Jackson—husband-and-wife, best friends, and writing team—may be familiar from their series of 40 Trailblazer Books, historical novels for young readers about Christian heroes, or from Neta's Yada Yada Prayer Group series of … [Read more...]

The Plot Thickens | Denise Hunter

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Each Sunday "Inspired by Life...and Fiction" shares a Christian novelist's newest book and the garden spots where they find inspiration. Denise Hunter is the nationally published author of bestsellers Sweetwater Gap and Surrender Bay. She has won The Holt Medallion Award, The Reader's Choice Award, The Foreword Book of the Year Award, and was a RITA finalist. In 1996, inspired … [Read more...]

Resolution or Bucket List?

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It's January 12, and if you're like me, you've already broken 87.4 percent of your New Year's resolutions. But what about your bucket list? The thing I love about bucket lists is that you have a lifetime to achieve the items on that list. And while, in the back of our minds, we might realize that some of the things on our list are unattainable, still just having them on our list means fun times of … [Read more...]

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