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Dear Andrea, I lost my sweet momma this last December. Since then I have had dreams of momma decomposing and her looking at me from her coffin and walking around with bluish skin because she is dead. Then twice a evil being I believe to be Satan is always after me in the end of the dreams. I sleep with my bible under my pillow, but still have nightmares. Please please help. I am so tormented over this. I can’t even function the next day. God bless you, Sarah Dear Sarah, The bible is a sword, not a dreamcatcher. Placing a sword under your pillowRead More →

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Mindflights.com advertises itself as, “A new magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction brought to you by Double-Edged Publishing. We’ve recently combined two award-winning magazines – Dragons, Knights, and Angels and The Sword Review – into one frequently-updated, high-quality magazine.” It appears to be a speculative fiction website (ezine) that focuses upon religious themes, and features forums to discuss the stories. The front page has a list of short stories and synopsises, and at a glance, they have quite a collection for the lover of Christian speculative fiction in short doses. Seems to lean slightly towards fantasy at the moment. A feature you’ll either love orRead More →

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Note to CSFF tourers: I will have a review up for the webzine Mindflights tomorrow. Nancy Cobb and Connie Grigsby seek to teach wives how men communicate in their relatively short book, How to get Your Husband to Listen to You. The book has plenty of advice to make it a worthwhile read, some novel ideas, understand the way God wired him and accept him as he is, and even more novel: don’t nag. Seriously, if you’ve read a lot of self help books on this subject, a good portion of this will seem familiar, but the personal anecdotes, short chapter lengths, and bottom-line presentationRead More →

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Trading Places by Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott promises to offer “the best move you’ll ever make in your marriage” and it largely delivers, and in less than 200 pages. The topic? A skill highly valued in many professions. Empathy. A novel idea, isn’t it? Stepping back for a moment from your own agenda to consider your spouses’ feelings and view point and then acting on that information. Taking time to pay attention to and care about the feelings of someone you promised to “until death do we part” to and actually verifying if your emotion-based assumptions are accurate. Or, conversely, to open your heartRead More →

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Ask Andrea: Empathy is a skill valuable in many areas of life. Can the techniques taught in Trading Places be applied in other relationships as well, including professional? Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott: Absolutely. While Trading Places was designed for couples – with accompanying his/her workbooks – empathy is for everyone! Especially for singles who are wanting to be as ready for marriage as possible. It always pleases us when we are doing a marriage seminar somewhere around the country to discover that we have single people in the audience. It’s never too early to learn the important skills of marriage – skills like tradingRead More →