Between glasses of lemonade, warm days on the beach, and chilling in a hammock in our woods, I find myself reading dozens of books every summer.  While any tale could be enjoyed in the summer months, here are 8 books your kids and teens are guaranteed to love that feature summertime settings, adventurous plots, and…

What parent wants to hand their teen a bloody tale when they thought it was a clean young adult thriller? But in all honesty, it’s really hard to find clean and fabulous YA thrillers. Too often I find myself faced with gothic horror content, excess profanity, and blood running off the pages of what should…

For years my parents have gifted books to graduating high school students as a witness, an encouragement, and a support to older teens ready to jump headlong in college, a career, or full-time life. The books I’m going to recommend are ones that we’ve gifted to numerous friends and I have been gifted myself. They…

Easter isn’t just a holiday where we celebrate the arrival of spring, colorful candies, and bunny rabbits. It’s the day we remember the Greatest Battle ever fought, the Greatest Victory ever won, and the Greatest Hero who ever came. How often do we forget the foundational truth that the Bible is (quite simply) the Greatest…

With Easter less than a month away, here are six historical fiction novels that my family has enjoyed. These stories seek to highlight key moments in Biblical history where God worked miraculous events through the lives of normal people. I hope these books bless you and your family as we see God’s story of redemption…

Stories shouldn’t just be mindless entertainment. When we read a made-up tale, we should see truth hidden in its pages. And fantasy stories with Christian allegorical themes can motivate and encourage their readers to battle the monsters of apathy, guilt, heresy, fear, and so many more enemies that characters in books fight and Christians face…