Audra Jennings

  Is God good? Can I trust him with my life? Is the Bible true? These are just some of the questions that can plague young adults as they stand at the crossroads of life, when new responsibilities loom large and the world around them treats God as a small or irrelevant part of life.  In  DoubtLess , author and Cru campus minister Shelby Abbott comes alongside young adults to help them honestly face their doubt and turn to God for the gift of faith. He reminds readers that Scripture recounts the stories of many men and women who have also faced deep misgivings and uncertainty in their walk of faith. Using both Scripture and personal illustrations, Abbot shows us how to “feed our faith” in seasons of doubt through authentic relationships with other Christians, hearing from God in the Bible, and practicing thankfulness. Doubt should not scare us, nor should it become our obsession. He urges readers to see the difference between doubt and unbe...

Scroll down to enter! For the next two weeks, my blog team will be reviewing  Dear Daughters  by Susie Davis, published by  Abingdon Press . Learn more about the book, then enter to win a copy of your own. I'm giving away a book at the end of the tour.   About the book Do you sometimes wonder what you’re supposed to be doing with your life? Do you wish you could find someone a little older who is walking just a few steps ahead who would give you some wisdom and remind you that God is still in control and that everything is going to be okay? Would you like a mentor in your life? Susie Davis understands the importance of having and being a mentor. In  Dear Daughters: Love Letters to the Next Generation , she will help you: Understand God’s will for your life Listen to God’s voice through your daily circumstances Find contentment and peace right where you are Foster friendship and deep connection with other women No...

While on a scavenging trip with her father, Amy is accidentally trapped in New Lithisle in Rondi Bauer Olson's All Things Now Living . At first her only goal is to escape, but when she meets Daniel, a New Lithisle boy, she begins to question how less-than-human the people of New Lithisle are. Amy’s feelings grow even more conflicted when she learns she didn’t end up in New Lithisle by mistake. Her father is secretly a sympathizer. Time is running short and Amy has to decide if she will bring the computer program her father wrote to his contact or save herself. Installing the program could prevent the dome’s collapse, but if Amy doesn’t find her father’s contact in time, she’ll die, along with everyone else. Stay up all night reading this thrilling new book from Rondi and enter to win a Kindle Fire!   One grand prize winner will receive: A copy of  All Things Now Living A Kindle Fire Enter today by clicking the icon below, but hurry! The giveaway ends o...

Join trusted Bible teacher Marty Machowski for a fictional adventure into the reality of spiritual warfare and how its shadows affect and change us. Don’t miss Marty’s new release,  Dragon Seed .  It’s a page-turning, young adult fiction story that invites older children and teens into the real-life struggles of Nick, who receives a handwritten, leather-bound copy of an old book—a family legend passed down to him from his great grandfather. The book, called  Dragon Seed , leads Nick deep into his family’s history and introduces him to another angry young man who lived in the shadows (the shadows of the tombs). Like Nick, you’ll be shocked to discover where he fits in this story of epic proportions! {MORE ABOUT  DRAGON SEED } (New Growth Press, June 2017) An angry teen, a desperate mother, a missing father, and a shadow lurking in the background. Things were going from bad to worse for Nick and his family. Tempted to run away after yet anothe...

The Rapunzel fairytale story is reimagined in a new YA novel,  The Golden Braid , by Melanie Dickerson.  Fiercely devoted to Rapunzel, her mother is suspicious of every man who so much as looks at her daughter and warns her that no man can be trusted. After a young village farmer asks for Rapunzel’s hand in marriage, Mother decides to move them once again—this time, to the large city of Hagenheim. How will Rapunzel finally take control of her own destiny? And who will prove faithful to a lowly peasant girl with no one to turn to? {MORE ABOUT  THE GOLDEN BRAID } (Thomas Nelson, November 2015) The one who needs rescuing isn’t always the one in the tower… Rapunzel can throw a knife better than any man. She paints beautiful flowering vines on the walls of her plaster houses. She sings so sweetly she can coax even a beast to sleep. But there are two things she is afraid her mother might never allow her to do: learn to read and marry. Fiercely devoted to Ra...

The dream world and the waking world bleed into each other when a rift is formed between the two in the third installment,  The War for the Waking World , of Wayne Thomas Batson’s Dreamtreaders trilogy.  It’s up to Archer and his fellow Dreamtreaders to race to reverse the rift before too much damage is done and to battle Archer’s ex-best friend, Kara, who sits on the throne of the Nightmare Lord. Kara is building an army of her own. Will Archer be strong enough to stand against her? {MORE ABOUT  THE WAR FOR THE WAKING WORLD } (Thomas Nelson, October 2015) Would you be willing to fight for your dreams? Fifteen-year-old Archer Keaton has the ability to enter and explore his dreams. He is a Dreamtreader, one of three selected from each generation. Their mission: to protect the waking world from the Nightmare Lord who dwells beyond the Slumber Gate. But as Archer’s dreams become more dangerous and threatening, so too does his waking life. In this fast-paced c...

Welcome to the  I’M NOBODY BY ALEX MARESTAING BLOG TOUR Alex Marestaing ‘s,  I’m Nobody: The Lost Pages , is an EPIC Award nominated novel that critics are saying is “fresh”, “powerful” and “unlike anything” they’ve read .  I’m Nobody  is a triumphant tale of friendship over fear and reminds us that we’re all broken on this side of heaven, but we can make beautiful things from the pieces. {MORE ABOUT  I’M NOBODY } We’re all broken on this side of heaven, but we can make beautiful things from the pieces. Agoraphobic Caleb Reed is about to step outside for the first time in seven years, meet indie filmmaker Iris Elliott…and definitely not fall in love. It’s all because of the notes, the weird and wonderful notes he keeps finding on his front porch, notes signed by someone claiming to be long dead poet Emily Dickinson. Caleb’s parents think he’s losing his mind, as always, but he knows they’re wrong. Something’s going on outside – something stra...

After the interview with Krista McGee about her new release, Anomaly , find out how you can enter to win an iPad Mini! Have you ever felt like you were different from everyone else? Were you  embarrassed  by these differences and tried to hide them? In Krista McGee’s latest novel, Anomaly (Thomas Nelson / July 9, 2013 / ISBN: 978-1401688721 / $9.99) , Thalli must hide who she really is or face death. Follow Thalli as she searches for truth and purpose in her controlling world in the first book in this trilogy for young adults. McGee approaches the popular dystopian genre from a Christian worldview to challenge readers to question what is going on around them and find answers from the Designer — God. Q: Your earlier books are modern adaptions of the biblical stories of Esther, Rebekah and Ruth. Where did you find your inspiration for Anomaly ? While this novel isn't based on a particular biblical character, there are shades of Noah, Moses and David in here....