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Happy New Year, Reader, Multi-Author Giveaway
Happy New Year, Readers! To kick off 2023, I wanted to do something special to get your year started, so I have teamed up with Celebrate Lit to do a huge giveaway. Here is your chance to win over 45 books, including a Kindle copy of Take My Hand, or a $500 Amazon card to buy a ton of books for yourself in Celebrate Lit’s Happy New Year, Readers, Giveaway. Click here to enter: https://promosimple.com/ps/24309/2023-happy-new-year-readers-updated The event and giveaway are going on now through January 15. Here’s to a year full of excellent books! ~ Kristen
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Theme for 2022: Believe for It
Happy New Year, friends! I am thankful for new beginnings and a new 365 days. Each year, I like to share a theme that God is laying on my heart. As I thought about a theme for 2022, I wanted to build off last year’s theme of “no fear” with a hopeful perspective. Truth is, last year gave us all plenty to be fearful about, and I struggled with fear more than once. My prayer for 2022 is that I will believe God for everything that concerns me. For one, my next novel is set to release this December, and I am believing God that He will use this story…
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Website Warming Party: Scavenger Hunt & Giveaway!
I’m so excited to welcome you to our new website here at KristenHogrefeParnell.com. You may have noticed the site received a facelift over the holidays, and I’m glad to officially welcome the new year with a new website, designed with you in mind. For fun, let’s do a scavenger hunt with a giveaway prize to help you get acquainted with the new site! Just fill out a short survey to be entered in a drawing. I’m giving away one paperback copy of William Danforth’s book, I Dare You.* I Dare You is a short classic that challenges and inspires us to be our best in every area of life. Just…
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Theme for 2021: No Fear
Some people do new year’s resolutions, but for the last several years, I’ve prayed about a theme for the new year. Several ideas came to mind, but this one has kept coming back to me: No Fear. In 2020, fear seemed to wrack our country and the world because of a pandemic. Although some wishfully hope that a new year will flip a switch and begin a clean page, troubles will more than like stick with us. After all, we live in a fallen world, broken by sin. What we can control is our response to problems, and that’s where this theme comes in. I John 4:18 says: There is…
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Theme for 2020: Love One Another
I remember when I was a little girl, there was a television show called 20/20. Of all the shows I watched, the one episode I remember is the one predicting we’d have flying cars by this year. To my young mind, the year 2020 seemed so far away that I wondered if they were right. Turns out, they were wrong about the flying cars but right about how technology would revolutionize the way we communicate, work, and play. Coming out of a social media break over the holidays, I can better appreciate that and also realize the need for healthy limits. Focus for the New Year So many words came…
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Theme for 2018: Wait and See
Like many of you, each year I write goals with the understanding that God can shape and change them however He sees best. For the last few years, I’ve also chosen a word that I hope will capture my prayers and dreams for the New Year. Lately, God’s been showing me that I need to lay aside my expectations and embrace the reality that His plans may be different than I imagined. And that’s okay. In fact, His ways are far better. However, I still struggle sometimes. “Lord, but I thought …” or “But isn’t this a good expectation?” Yet I imagine I’m somewhat like Job who thought he had…
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New Smells, New Year, and 3 Timeless Truths
I remember when I bought my first car after college. It had belonged to one owner before me and still had a faint new car smell. Even more potent was the feeling of buying a car for the first time. Perhaps you can think of an experience when life brought a “new smell.” Today, we’re on the cusp of 2018. Perhaps 2017 was a year of tremendous blessing for you, but maybe, it also brought unexpected trials or changes that have been particularly hard. For some, looking over the year doesn’t leave a warm fuzzy feeling. While reflecting on the past has its place, even more important is focusing on…
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2017 Keyword: Simplicity
Looking ahead holds such hope and excitement, but before we talk about the New Year, we should take a moment to look back and be thankful for all God has done. My word for 2016 was convergence, and the idea was to move toward a central goal or purpose. As I think back over all that God has done, I see how He guided, not as I expected, but oh so much better. Gratitude for 2016 Most unexpectedly, He opened a new job teaching online for an outstanding private Christian school. He’s surrounded me with godly leadership, a lead teacher I admire and count as a good friend, and co-teachers who…
