Eddie Jones

April 21, 2012 in Z with 0 Comments

Eddie is a North Carolina-based writer and Acquisition Editor for Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas. He is a three-time winner of the Delaware Writers Conference and his Middle Grade / Tween novel, The Curse of Captain LaFoote, won the 2011 Selah Award in Young Adult fiction. He co-writes the He Said, She Said devotions, available at ChristianDevotions.us. His latest novel, Bahama Breeze, is a humorous romantic suspense available from Harbourlight Books.  Eddie’s first book in the Caden Chronicles mystery series, Dead Man’s Hand, releases this fall from Zonderkids.

Have questions about the book publishing industry, the writing process or any of my books, send me an email. eddie@eddiejones.org

Eddie is a contributing writer for:

  • The Ocracoke Observer
  • Carolina Currents
  • Living Aboard Magazine
  • Common Ground Christian News
  • Christian Devotions Ministries
  • Inspire A Fire
  • CBN.com

His past writings have appeaed in:

  • The Waterway Guide
  • The Lake Norman Times
  • Beaufort Breezes
  • Inner Banks Newsletter
  • Cruisers’ Net
  • The Town Dock
  • Carolina Living
  • Latitudes & Attitudes Magazine
  • Carolina Style
  • Carolina Cruising
  • Coastal Cruising Magazine
  • The Boating News
  • Cruising Coast and Island
  • Embassy Marine’s Mid Atlantic Cruising Guide
  • Tidal Times Magazine

My Father’s Business: 30 Inspirational Stories for Discerning and Doing God’s Will

April 20, 2012 in Devotional Books, Z with 0 Comments

My Father’s Business: 30 Inspirational Stories for Discerning and Doing God’s Will by Eddie Jones features Biblical insights and practical applications from the the lives of Jeremy Lin, Bruce Wilkerson, George S. Patton, Walt Disney, Jim Valvano, Mother Teresa, Abraham Lincoln, Colonial Sanders, and others with selected quotes from Oswald Chambers.

ISBN 978-0-9847655-4-6

Summer 2012

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From the Introduction:

What does it mean to discern God’s will for your life? How can you hear His call? The word discernment comes from two Latin words: discernere (to perceive) and discretis (to separate). To discern God’s voice and will is to converse with Him. In both Hebrew and Greek, the word will means “to yearn.” When we say, “Lord, Your will be done,” we are asking God to infuse His deepest yearnings into our spirit and alter the circumstances of our life in order that we may grow. God sees beyond our past and knows our secret desires, even those desires yet to be born. “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express” (Romans 8:26, NIV).

As you seek to discern and do God’s will, ask the following questions:

  • Will this course of action use my gifts, talents, and passions?
  • How has my previous experience prepared me for this task?
  • Will this new opportunity cause me to be more loving?
  • Is this an expansion of my influence for God?
  • Will I feel more fulfilled and have a greater sense of inner peace?
  • Who will benefit from my actions?
  • What will it cost me and my family?
  • Is this a time-sensitive opportunity?

We often complicate the business of knowing God’s will, but His word is clear: “And You will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13 NKJV). Those who seek and ask, hear His voice. The following devotional stories illustrate how others have heard God’s call and heeded His voice. My prayer is that you, too, will learn to recognize God’s voice so that you will be able both to discern and to do His will.

The only reliable way to be truly guided by God is to assimilate the Word of God to your character. . . . Scripture reveals God’s will only if we allow His Holy Spirit to apply it to our circumstances.  Oswald Chambers

Dead Man’s Hand

March 24, 2012 in Young Adult Books, Z with 0 Comments

Dead Man's Hand

Dead Man's Hand

Ghost Town – (noun) – A dead or dying crossroads void of love, hope and God.

Nick Caden’s vacation at the Deadwood Canyon takes a deadly turn toward trouble when the fourteen-year-old finds himself trapped in a livery stable with the infamous outlaw Jesse James. As smoke curls from James’ six-shooter, the gunslinger whirls, aims at Nick and… vanishes. Great theatrics, Nick thinks, except now he’s alone in the hayloft with the bullet-riddled body of Billy the Kid. Nick races from the barn convinced he’s witnessed a murder. When the town’s sheriff makes a cursory inspection of the crime scene he announces there is no body, no evidence of a murder, and no reason to investigate further. “This is an authentic old west ghost town,” the sheriff explains, winking to the boy’s parents. “I’m sure this isn’t the only gunfight you’ll witness during your visit.”

But Nick knows what he saw; the body was real even if the staged gunfight wasn’t. Stepping inside the stagecoach that will take his family to their bunkhouse, Nick finds a hand-written note on his seat inviting him to a midnight meeting on Boot Hill. There, in the graveyard, Nick will learn the true identity of the killer. But the dark stranger he sees behind the headstone leads Nick on a deadly chase through an abandoned gold mine, into the forbidden buffalo hunting grounds, and onto a perilous railroad trestle spanning Rattlesnake Gulch. Around every turn he finds another suspect; from the actor who plays Jesse James, to the sheriff, and his posse of lawmen. All have a reason to see Billy the Kid dead. Can Nick solve the murder and find the answers to his nagging questions of the ultimate destiny of a person’s body, soul, and spirit?

Release Date: October 2012
Genre: Middle Grade fiction
About: Nick Caden, a 14 year-old who uncovers a murder in a modern-day, Old West ghost town.
ISBN: 0310723442
Publisher: Zonderkids
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