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This recipe for Snickerdoodles is actually my mama’s, but I used it in my Guideposts book, The Secret Ingredient, a fun cozy mystery. One of the main characters, Winnie, is an amazing baker and even competes in a big competition! I’m happy to share it with you now, as well as a snippet of the …
If you’ve read my book Movers and Shakers (a Guideposts mystery) you already know about Grandma Pearl. She’s a key player in the story, though all of the information about her is shared posthumously. At the end of the book I shared a recipe that actually came from my own mother’s cookbook. It’s called Grandma …
Enjoy this cobbler recipe, straight from the pages of Janice Thompson’s novel, Tracking Tilly.
Press release for Tracking Tilly, book one in the Little Red Truck Series from author Janice Thompson and Barbour Publishing.
Sing a New Song from author Janice Thompson and Free Writing Lessons.com.
I’m 65 years old now, which means I’ve been to 65 Palm Sunday services in my life. But today, as I sat in my 65th, something occurred to me that I’d never noticed before. We were told our sermon was going to be from the book of Matthew, so I instinctively flipped to the (near) …
Paint me There – from author Janice Thompson and Free Writing Lessons.com
Have you ever been so disappointed, so broken down, that you felt you couldn’t go on? Don’t despair! Even in the hardest of times, it’s possible to have a glad heart. The body reacts to the spirit, so if you want to keep on keepin’ on, better do a heart-check!
Just Enough and Just in Time: a devotion from author Janice Thompson and Free Writing Lessons.com.
I have a saying, and it’s one I use quite often: “You can’t blame a blind man for being blind. You can only pray that the shackles will fall from his eyes.” What is Spiritual Blindness? Spiritual blindness is the inability to see truth, even when it’s staring you in the face. Sometimes I look …
Who Were These Men Mentioned in 2nd Timothy, Chapter Three? Over the past several months I have found myself gravitating to a familiar passage of scripture found in 2nd Timothy, chapter three. When a friend mentioned it again last night, I read it once more, as I have so many other times. This time, however, several new …
I feel like God spoke something specific to my heart this morning while in church. Maybe it’s for you, too: The Lord wants us to shake off self-pity. Yes, we’ve been through a lot. Yes, much of it was unfair..wholly unfair, in fact. But self-pity gets us nowhere. It causes us to cry out, “I’m …
Deep calls to deep. That’s what the Bible says. Until recently I didn’t fully comprehend those mysterious words. The deep, hidden places inside of me—easily covered by bright smiles and cheerful hellos—longed for something deeper in Him, an encounter that would impact me in every hidden corridor of my life, one that would nudge all …
Last night, one of my daughters (who shall remain nameless) was bemoaning the fact that, in spite of her kindness toward someone, that someone responded to her in a curt, short fashion. I encouraged her to just blow it off. Then, this morning, the very same thing happened to me and I found it difficult …