I had the opportunity to interview her and she shared amazing stories of victory and gave applicable advice with biblical principles. This is one interview you don’t want to miss…

In our current economic climate, more people than ever are dealing with financial challenges, layoffs, and professional setbacks. Add to that the timeless problems of broken relationships, health crises, and various forms of personal disappointment and loss, and it’s hard to find anyone who isn’t experiencing some kind of setback that has thrown their life plans for loop.

Check out my interview with novelist extraordinaire Susan Messner regarding her recently released book A Sound Among the Trees…

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More about the book…

On a historic Fredericksburg street, Holly Oak stands in quiet elegance. The cannonball wedged between stone and timber is a silent reminder of what the house endured in the Civil War. When Marielle Bishop marries into the family and is transplanted from the arid west to her husband’s home, she’s soon led to believe that the house brings misfortune to the women who live there.

As a young bride, Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter Adelaide, the current matriarch of Holly Oak, doesn’t believe that Susannah’s ghost haunts the mansion, but that the house itself bears a grudge toward its tragic past. As Marielle struggles to fit into her new role as wife and stepmother, unsettled by the strange sense of sorrow she feels inside Holly Oak’s walls, she must uncover the truth about Susannah, and reconcile her belief that it is people—not houses—that hang on to the past.  History can’t be undone, but truth uncovered can set the women of Holly Oak free.

To find out more about Susan Meissner visit her website at www.SusanMeissner.com!

I’ve come to discover that there are a lot of guys out there that love chocolate too! Who’da thought?!

Karen and I had a fun interview discussing the “secrets for a sweeter journey on the rocky road of life”! I’m talking all things chocolate ladies and gentlemen, from recipes to quick relief especially when you’re aching for a chocolatey treat! Oh, did I mention The Chocolate Diaries are sprinkled with concoctions on how to create chocolate delights from whatever ingredients you can round up in your kitchen? I don’t know if I should say YAY or YUM.

Check out our fabulously yummy, I mean funny interview…

Karen Linamen dishes up a satisfying bled of moxie and mocha, sharing stories from dozens of women who reveal savvy strategies for embracing a sweeter life – even while traveling rocky roads. If you’re hungry for more joy, reasons to laugh again, ideas to help you heal, and reliable hope leading to a sweeter future, this journey will definitely leave you satisfied.

For more information on Karen Linamen please visit www.KarenLinamen.com!

1. Faithful

2. Frugal

3. Flexible

4. Free-Hearted

Deborah also offered our listeners and readers her FREE scripture matrix! Go to www.ConfrontingIssues.com now for more details!

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Put Fear In It’s Place

With her trademark clarity and practical wisdom, Deborah Smith Pegues offers you hope and assurance as she addresses relational, health and safety, financial, and emotional fears with godly principles and straightforward helps. Each step of the way, she gives you power over fear by helping you understand

*the root cause of your fears

*God’s perspective on your anxieties, fears, or phobias

*how to respond to fear triggers with awareness and confidence

*ways to embrace healthy fears and to resist unhealthy ones

how neutralizing your fears can maximize your life

If you find yourself walking the minefield of frequent fearfulness, this book will help you exchange your fear for the peace that surpasses all understanding.

What a fun interview I had with Debora Coty regarding her new book Too Blessed to be Stressed!

Debora is such a doll! She has a powerfully packed bubbly personality that demands your attention and make no mistake that her book is just as compelling.

Too Blessed to be Stressed addresses heart needs of women drowning in the churning stress-pool of busyness and offers a life preserver of simple, practical steps for healing, refreshment and revitalization of the spirit, body and faith.

Oh, yes – don’t miss her 2-Minute Stress Busters, posted bi-weekly from July through October. Each 2-Minute Stress Buster video features a brief, light-hearted but heavy-hitting excerpt from Too Blessed to be Stressed. Just hop over to her website at www.DeboraCoty.com and click on Stress Busters.

Check out this awesome interview with Karol Ladd:

Who are you really…beneath the surface?

Really take a minutes to honestly answer that question.

If everything in your life was peeled away, what kind of person would be left standing? Would you still have confidence in your own abilities? All too often we define ourselves by money, a nice home, cars, beautiful things or how we look. Struggles with insecurity and self-confidence are now daily battles. What is shown on TV only adds to the increasing fire of women never feeling they are “enough” because they fail to recognize that their true identity is found in a much deeper source. Karol Ladd, author and speaker, believes that it is only when women truly understand their purpose and walk with a God-confidence, will they become what they were always created to be.

ith biblical wisdom and an inspiring belief in God’s purpose for each woman, bestselling author Karol Ladd helps readers transform the way they see themselves and how they live out their lives as they discover their value and confidence in God.

Based on the book of Colossians, Karol reveals an exciting path of confident living through God’s love and grace. With this vital perspective shift, a woman will:

• Transform her thinking through powerful prayers
• Cultivate potential by exploring the dreams God gives to her
• Step forward with a strong sense of identity in Christ
• Deepen relationships and communication with others and with God
• Shine with joy and assurance of what she brings to the world

Lasting beauty radiates from the woman whose life is enriched by the unfading love of Christ. Stop yourself from becoming a prisoner of this world, and allow yourself to live with purpose and confidence as you discover A Woman’s Secret to Confident Living.

Karol Ladd is a gifted Bible teacher and a bestselling author. Her more than 20 releases include A Woman’s Passionate Pursuit of God (book and DVD) and The Power of a Positive Woman. She is a frequent guest on radio and television and regularly posts positive messages and videos on her website: www.KarolLadd.com.

“You never forget the day that changes your life forever,” says author and speaker Cindy Beall. For Cindy it was the day when she listened in disbelief as her husband of nine years confessed to a pornography addiction, numerous affairs, and the frightening reality that another woman was pregnant with his child. As everything caved in around her, Cindy grappled to find answers amidst the chaos, wrestling with questions such as; is healing this marriage even possible? Should I stay or should I go?

After much prayer, soul-searching and counsel she made the decision to stay and fight for her marriage and family.

Sharing with raw honesty and intimate knowledge of pain and of God’s power to resurrect something new out of the debris of betrayal, Cindy states the importance for couples to:

• Seek guidance, counseling, and prayer support when deceptions surface
• Help the family heal from the grief and humiliation
• Rebuild trust after porn, sex, and other addictions undermine a relationship
• Protect a marriage from lies and unfaithfulness
• Rely on God to pursue forgiveness and move forward in new promises

Cindy’s compassion, grasp of God’s Word, and the Bealls’ remarkable story will inspire wives and husbands to trust God with their broken hearts and follow His leading, hope, and redemption.

Find out more about Debra Beck and My Feet Aren’t Ugly Revised and Updated Edition by visiting: Empowered Teens and Parents

My Feet Aren’t Ugly is now REVISED and UPDATED with an additional 60 pages! If you have a teen girl in your life, whether she’s a daughter, granddaughter, sister, niece, or friend, this book is a MUST have for her!

If a young lady in your life sometimes feel like other girls are prettier, more trendy, more popular, or if she ever feels bad about herself, she needs this book!

In this funny, honest book, teen expert and mentor Debra Beck provides in-depth examples and exercises to develop the tools you need for self-confidence. Learn to have fulfilling relationships, make good decisions for yourself, respect yourself and others all while learning to love yourself for who you are: fearfully and wonderfully made says God!

The book’s catchy title, My Feet Aren’t Ugly, was born of an incident from Beck’s youth: “When I was fifteen years old, I was standing out in front of my house talking to a guy I was crazy about. It was a hot summer day and I was in shorts and bare feet. All of a sudden I noticed he was staring at my feet. He said, ‘You have the ugliest feet I have ever seen! You should never go barefoot.’ I didn’t go barefoot for a long time. I knew that my feet maybe were a little wide but they didn’t seem
ugly to me until then. From then on, I was self-conscious about my ugly feet. When my girlfriends were buying cute, strappy sandals, I was buying sneakers. It took years for me to realize that my feet really aren’t ugly. To me, this is a fitting example of what it is like to be a teen girl.” Part road map, part mentor-in-a-book, My Feet Aren’t Ugly may be the best friend a teen girl ever had. With expert guide
Debra Beck leading the way, teen girls everywhere will learn how to turn those formative years into transformative years.

Check out this interview with bestselling author Randy Singer…

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The Government Can Change an Identity, but It Cannot Change a Life

Suspense author Randy Singer brings awareness to the plight of Dalits in India

Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX – May 5, 2011 – What is our responsibility for obtaining justice for those in need?

Does the end always justify the means? Randy Singer examines these questions while taking his readers through twists and turns on a powerful journey in his novel False Witness. This engrossing legal thriller is a re-telling of Singer’s original novel by the same name. The new version has many substantial changes-some designed to bring about Singer’s original vision for the book inspired by his friend’s funeral. The deceased was David O’Malley, Singer’s good friend and former client. O’Malley’s wife had asked Singer to give her husband’s eulogy. So, at the funeral, Singer talked about his friend’s generosity and big heart. Everyone there had a David O’Malley story, so heads nodded as he shared his. David’s pastor followed Singer in the pulpit. He spoke about a man named Thomas Kelly. The man was a scoundrel involved in organized crime. He turned on everyone he knew. “You don’t think you know Thomas Kelly, but you do,” the pastor explained. “David O’Malley was Thomas Kelly before he went into the witness protection program-before he came to the Lord.”

Prior to that moment, the only people that knew about David’s past were the government, his family, Singer, and his pastor. There was utter silence as the pastor concluded with a line Singer said he will never forget. “The government can give you a new identity,” he said, “but only Christ can change your life.” It was then that he decided to write this book.

But Singer also wanted to draw attention to one of his passions. He wanted to highlight the challenges of today’s church in India. He believes that most Western Christians are unaware of the persecution of the church and the miraculous things happening there.

India is a land of civil rights, in theory, but of brutal oppression, in fact-especially for the 165 million members of the Dalits, India’s lowest caste. During Singer’s first trip to India a few years ago, he saw firsthand the systemic oppression of the Dalits (formerly known as untouchables) through the Hindu caste system. Singer was astonished by the fact that the world’s largest democracy was also a breeding ground for the world’s largest human-trafficking operations, that it would allow the exploitation of 15 million children in bonded labor, that it would tolerate temple prostitution and other forms of sexual slavery, and that it would foster economic and social systems that oppress nearly 25 percent of its people.

But there is a silver lining. A bond was formed between the Dalits and Christians. The Dalits began asking the church to help educate their children. Hundreds of schools sprang up, providing thousands of Dalit children with an English-based education (critical to landing good jobs) and newfound self-respect. The Dalits responded with another invitation: “If this is the Christian faith, come start a church in our village.” The result is that millions of Dalits and other Indians are coming to Christ, drawn by a religion that believes the ground is equal at the foot of the cross. Singer was moved by the plight of the Dalit children, struggling to throw off the yoke of oppression and replace it with real freedom and dignity, so he committed to do his part because he believes that “no child should be untouchable.” So he is donating every penny from the sale of False Witness to the Dalit Freedom Network. His novel will take readers from the streets of Las Vegas to the halls of the American justice system and the inner sanctum of the growing church in India with all the trademark twists, turns, and legal intrigue his fans have come to expect.

False Witness begins with Clark Shealy, a bail bondsman with the ultimate bounty on the line-his wife’s life. He has 48 hours to find an Indian professor in possession of the Abacus Algorithm-an equation so powerful it could crack all Internet encryption.

Four years later, law student Jamie Brock is working in legal aid when a routine case takes a vicious twist. She and two colleagues learn that their clients, members of the witness protection program, are accused of defrauding the government and have the encrypted algorithm in their possession. Now they’re on the run from federal agents and the Chinese mafia, who will do anything to get the algorithm. Caught in the middle, Jamie and her friends must protect their clients if they want to survive long enough to graduate.

In this engrossing legal thriller, Singer shows how God is a God of justice and how, in His time, justice will be served.

About the book:

False Witness by Randy Singer

ISBN: 9781414335698

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers

Date of publish: May 2011

Pages: 416

Like me, Sigmund has a fire for reading, and he encourages people of all ages to read especially children. Check out his website! www.CoolReading.com.

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