There’s not too much I love more than sitting around my kitchen table with my elderly friends and family listening to them recount “the glory days.” They swap story after story about events, places and people. Some sad. Some funny. I could listen to those stories over and over again (and I do) for hours. That’s fine with me. They are just as much a joy to hear the thirtieth time as they were the first. That good ol’ down-home feeling is what I experienced recently when I had the pleasure of reading Singing Ain’t Enough: The Inspiring Story of Maggie Ingram by Joy Harris.Read More →

Written for the creative heart, Designed to Pray is an interactive, 8-week devotional on creative ways to engage with God. Kelly Stanley’s casual and fascinating style opens her reader’s eyes to new ways of connecting with God through prayer. This book would appeal to the right-brained, artsy reader, but would greatly benefit anyone desiring to pray more and pray more effectively. Each week offers a situation that may arise as we begin to pray, whether it’s fear, or a desire for increased faith, or how to intercede for others. Then, each day of that week Kelly shares ways to overcome or prevail in the situation.Read More →

  Great News! It’s time for another Giveaway! Contest starts today, 11/26 and runs through 12/3. Win your very on copy of Listen, Love, Repeat; along with the Study Guide and DVD! All you have to do to enter is follow the directions below:   How to Enter: Subscribe to my blog, Created to Climb, by entering your e-mail address in the Follow My Blog link located in the right column of my blog site; (Don’t worry, if you are already a follower, just make sure you follow the next direction and you’ll have your chance to win). Share my blog post on your Facebook page by posting:Read More →

I’ve just finished New York Times bestselling author, Karen Ehman’s newest book, Listen, Love, Repeat: Other-Centered Living in a Self-Centered World.  (For your future fun: I will be giving away a copy along with the Listen, Love, Repeat  Study Guide with DVD  later this month). I became acquainted with Karen’s work through Proverbs 31 Ministries. Over the past few years I’ve enjoyed studying some of her ten books, including Let It Go: How to Stop Running the Show & Start Walking in Faith and Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It & When to Say Nothing at All. Karen is a speaker for Proverbs 31Read More →

I’ve just finished New York Times bestselling author, Karen Ehman’s newest book, Listen, Love, Repeat: Other-Centered Living in a Self-Centered World.  (For your future fun: I will be giving away a copy along with the Listen, Love, Repeat  Study Guide with DVD  later this month). I became acquainted with Karen’s work through Proverbs 31 Ministries. Over the past few years I’ve enjoyed studying some of her ten books, including Let It Go: How to Stop Running the Show & Start Walking in Faith and Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It & When to Say Nothing at All. Karen is a speaker for Proverbs 31Read More →