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Audiobooks on Spotify (& a giveaway!)

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Spotify has long been a music streaming giant. It added podcasts to its listening platform back in 2015. And--joy of joys for bookworms everywhere!--it just added audiobooks, too. What does this mean? It means that Spotify's 236 million paid subscibers will now receive 15 hours of audiobook listening every month as part of their membership. This is a win/win for readers and authors! It's … [Read more...]

Alexander Family Addition

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On January 19, the Alexander family grew by one more very little precious one. Meet Ari Rose, our first granddaughter. . . Ari (pronounced Ari as in "safari") is little sister to Leo who is 13 months and a “chonk” as we call him… As we tell Kurt and Kellie, Ari and Leo's parents, they make cute kids! ;) Leo is the spitting image of Kurt as a baby, and Ari looks just like Kellie. … [Read more...]

Why I Attend a Messianic Synagogue

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Several readers have written to ask me if--since I'm Jewish--I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. So I thought I should write a post to explain all those pictures of pies and cakes I bake for my synagogue service every Friday night. First of all, I'm not Jewish. Not even a little. I'm Scot-Irish, British, and a wee bit of Congolese, according to Ancestry.com. But when I was … [Read more...]

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