Laura Frantz Author

Reveal of my January 2027 novel! More about the story on book sites. Pre-order links on book sites, thank you! * Audio, large print, & Kindle/Nook available soon.

Today, our nation pauses to honor four American heroes. 🇺🇸❤️ We lift their families in prayer, give thanks for their service to our country, and mourn alongside them. God bless our fallen heroes, and may God bless the United States of America.

“John Newton was the friendliest, wisest, humblest and least pushy of all the eighteenth-century evangelical leaders, and was perhaps the greatest pastoral letter-writer of all time.” - J I Packer - born on this day 100 years ago.

God has filled this world with beauty. The beauty of the created world was never meant to satisfy our hearts. It was never meant to be the beauty that we would give ourselves to search for, live for, cry for and die for. Rather, the physical beauties of earth are meant to be SIGN BEAUTIES. Everything we see, touch, taste and hear is designed to be a sign that points to the ULTIMATE BEAUTY: the One who created the world and everything in it.

"The point of our lives is not comfort, security, or even happiness, but training...This world is a lousy home, but it's a fine gymnasium." - Peter Kreeft

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” -Charles W. Eliot

Fyodor Dostoevsky's handwritten manuscript for The Brothers Karamazov. He spent nearly two years writing what would become his final novel. It was published in monthly installments between January 1879 and November 1880. Less than four months after it was published, Dostoevsky died.

JOHNNY CASH: "Being a Christian isn't for cowards. It takes a real man to live for God, much more so than to live for the Devil."

This is the prayer George Washington said every day when he got out of bed: "O eternal & everlasting God, I present myself this morning before thy Divine majesty, beseeching thee to accept my humble thanks, but to daily frame me more into the likeness of thy son, Jesus Christ."

"So you shall rejoice in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you and your house." —Deuteronomy 26:11

JOHN ADAMS: "You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your Freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."

WWN>Study Finds Bible-Reading Is Better Self-Care Than Exercise mycharisma.com/news/study-fin…

“I do not really think that I am frightfully important. I wrote the Trilogy as a personal satisfaction, driven to it by the scarcity of literature of the sort that I wanted to read.” - Tolkien, Letter 163

To thee then O Saviour of Sinners I flee for refuge. - William Wilberforce

The things we possess are like invisible cords that prevent us from standing from our slumber, from tending to the things that matter most. They keep our minds on the world and what is temporary and make these insignificant spoils the center of our entire existence. Isaiah went to Hezekiah and told him, “Set your house in order, for you shall die” (Isaiah 38:1 ESV). It may sound morbid, but Isaiah reminds us all of a truth we should always keep at the center: We are not made for this world! We will, one day, die. And what will we leave behind? Will we find that we’ve stored treasures in Heaven through our love for the Lord, or will we find we were bound by the things of this world, holding onto them all until the bitter end? Continue @cathelaurie's midweek devotional at hubs.la/Q04nHc9W0

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Only 3 weeks until WHEN THE SILENCE BREAKS! Coming soon: book one in the Mercy Ridge series! #WhenTheSilenceBreaks #MercyRidge #ElizabethGoddardBooks #RomanticSuspense #ChristianRomanticSuspense #BookCountdown #NewRelease

To make America great again we need to get average Americans excited about reading the great works of Western Civilization again. It's time. Follow @SocratesITC. Our book clubs are exploding around the country! God bless America.

Ladybird books in the spotlight. ‘Garden Flowers’ (1960) Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton