One of the exciting things about this new book (I think, anyway) is the Bible study that goes along with it. I started out wanting to put together something simple that a military wives group could do together as they read the book – a few discussion questions, a couple of scriptures. I had no

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I’m thrilled to let you know that my new book, God Strong: A Military Wife’s Spiritual Survival Guide, releases this month. If there ever was a book that defined what Wives of Faith is about, this is it. I wrote it to be a reminder to myself and to other wives so we can remember

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I am so excited to be giving away this book! I have been counting down the minutes until I could pick a winner! I asked my husband to do the honors by telling to choose a number from 1 to 19. He chose 6! And the winner is… Joy! Here is what she does to

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Hey everyone – this is a quick update to say hello and explain the absence lately… I am deep in the trenches of writing GOD Strong: Spiritual Truths Every Military Wife Should Know (Zondervan, 2010), and with that and my work with Wives of Faith, I have been a little crunched for time lately! I

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My new book, GOD Strong: Nine Spiritual Truths Every Military Wife Should Know, is going to release in early 2010 from Zondervan and I am looking for brief stories from military wives on how you have found strength through God in overcoming fear, loneliness, the dread of the unknown, your hurts and struggles. We know

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We had to keep it under wraps until the contract was signed, but I’m happy to finally be able to announce that I have signed a new book deal with Zondervan, a division of HarperCollins! I’m so excited! GOD STRONG: Nine Spiritual Truths Every Military Wife Should Know is my heart’s cry for military wives

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If you’re a military wife, you know about prayer. (Or at least I hope you do!). We pray when our husbands leave, pray while they’re gone, pray until they come back. We depend on prayer many times to get us through to the next phone call, the next email, the next instant message. Please, God,

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I just got finished this past week with John Eldredge’s new book, Walking with God. I met John Eldredge several years ago when I was covering a retail division conference meeting and John was one of the keynote speakers. He and his wife Stasi were both there and after he spoke, I stood in line

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I don’t do many reviews of books. At least I haven’t up to this point. I may start. Mainly I don’t do it because every author and their sister would send me books (I already get quite a few) and I just don’t have time to read and write about what I just read. But

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“Our nation can not go to war unless we take main street, the hair dresser, the assistant principal, the insurance salesman and the guy at the gas station. They have to go to war to find out what we’re doing is just and go back and tell America that what we’re doing is right, giving

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