I share my reviews with author and fellow reviewer, David Bergsland, of Reality Calling.
Reality Calling has as its vision to,
.....provide resources for Christian authors and readers, focusing on God’s call, the production of anointed materials, and vetted book reviews. You can see an example of that to the left [email David and he’ll send you a digital copy].
Technical support and mentoring for Christian self-publishers are found on our companion site: The Skilled Workman. There you will also find Writing In InDesign Producing Books, the book on the best method to self-publish on a professional level.
Our twin focus is first to encourage authors to participate in the final harvest as we prepare for the Coming of our King. It’s a glorious time to be alive and the Lord is looking for authors to help Him save all possible before the Wrath which is to come falls on the Earth.
Second, we also need and serve readers, and commenters, both to help us stay on track, and to share these resources with their friends and acquaintances. As authors and creators, we must stay attached to the Head, Jesus, as well as the readers we serve. For having a call from God necessarily means we serve those we are given. Our readers are our flock with whom we are called to minister. Jesus told us we will be held to account for everything we say [or write]. We take that seriously.
As a major part of this vision, I believe that the Kingdom needs more authors willing to lay it all on the line and share books containing the reality of the Christian life. We need books which go beyond mentions of church and vague faith statements. We really need books which share the reality of the power available to believers to bring love, joy, and healing to a world desperately needing hope. The darkness we see in the world today is but the birth pangs of the coming Kingdom on Earth. That’s our glorious hope. God, the Father of us all, is coming to live with us forever in an earth designed for us to share. Alleluia!
Evolving from this, David felt that authors needed to be encouraged and awarded for their efforts in writing according to what he outlined in the above paragraph. In conjunction with him, we have instigated the,
Reality Calling Christian Fiction Awards
There are four awards: (click on their title below for more information)
These awards are based on A Spiritual System for Rating Books written by David Bergsland (Click on the title for a free copy).
More information can be found here in a guest post with David here:
Why Is Redemptive Fiction Important And Necessary? by David Bergsland
More information can be found here in a guest post with David here:
Why Is Redemptive Fiction Important And Necessary? by David Bergsland
Beginning slowly, we will continue to add books over time. The authors and books will be by invitation only—at the discretion of the Reality Calling editors. To start with, David Bergsland will be doing most of it. But his hope and prayer are that this will take on a life of its own—one the Lord can bless and use.
Some of the links to the Awards listed below will be also found in the Bookstore as they are added.
Click on the links below to view the Award recipients and their books.
Mary Campagna Findley for His Sign: The Wait Is Over 06/01/18
Lisa Godfrees (with Mike Lynch) for Mind Writer 19/11/16
Lisa Godfrees (with Mike Lynch) for Mind Writer 19/11/16
Bryan M. Powell for The Witch and the Wise Men 13/09/17
Bryan M. Powell for The Lost Medallion 23/09/17
Bryan M. Powell for The Lost Medallion 23/09/17
D. I. Telbat for Dark Hearted (COIL Book 2) 22/06/16
D. I. Telbat for Dark Zeal (Coil, Book 5) 03/09/16
D.I Telbat for Distant Contact; Book 1 of the COIL Legacy 06/06/17
Janet Ursel for Disenchanted 23/03/16
Jeffrey Wilson for War Torn, 27/10/18
John Zelenski for Walker's Vale 29/01/17
Anna M. Aquino for A Marriage In Time 23/07/17
Iryna K Combs for Pay For My Sin 27/06/17
V. K. Dorner for Lazarus 31/08/16
John Zelenski for Walker's Vale 29/01/17
Spirit-Filled Fiction Awards
Anna M. Aquino for A Marriage In Time 23/07/17
Iryna K Combs for Pay For My Sin 27/06/17
V. K. Dorner for Lazarus 31/08/16
Jeffrey Allen Davis for Buster's Legacy: Book Five of the Adventure Chronicles 02/10/16
Jeffrey Allen Davis for The Possession: Book Seven of the Adventure Chronicles 02/08/18
Jeffrey Allen Davis for The Possession: Book Seven of the Adventure Chronicles 02/08/18
Jane Woodlee Hedrick for The Third Strand 26/02/17
Jeff W. Horton for Heaven's Oasis 01/12/16
Timothy Michael Hurst for The Æglet's Answer (Book Two in the Kinsman's Tree Series) 14/01/18
Jeff W. Horton for Heaven's Oasis 01/12/16
Timothy Michael Hurst for The Æglet's Answer (Book Two in the Kinsman's Tree Series) 14/01/18
Mary Ann Poll for Ravens Cove 29/11/16
Timothy W. Tron for Bruecke to Heaven: Children of the Light, Book 1 01/03/18
Timothy W. Tron for The Light in the Darkness: Children of the Light, 14/03/18
John Zelenski for The Journal of Ezekiel Walker 21/01/17
Timothy W. Tron for The Light in the Darkness: Children of the Light, 14/03/18
John Zelenski for The Journal of Ezekiel Walker 21/01/17
Christian Religious Fiction Awards
Pre-Christian Godliness Fiction Awards
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