november 2022 release
They Roared Like Lions
In this sequel to The Waking Up, revivals continue to sweep across Kentucky, and Matthew McMillan and daughter Sarah find themselves divided by distance -- both emotional and physical. In eastern Kentucky, newly widowed Blessing Jackson faces the daunting task of running a farm as a single woman. And a short distance away, young Presbyterian minister Rev. Barton Stone feels called to carry the fire of God to his flock.
Each faces multiple crossroads as they are directed by an unseen hand to the Cane Ridge Meetinghouse for a weekend communion meeting in August 1801. The McMillans must decide if they can put aside a lifetime of hurt to make the long journey together. Blessing travels from the East on an unrelated quest but finds herself tangled up in frontier religious fervor. And Stone is the master organizer of a weekend that will change his life forever.
When all parties intersect at Cane Ridge, none can imagine what God has in store for them.
The Waking Up
Splashed against the backdrop of the wilderness territory of Kentucky in the 1790s stands a man of God who answered a call to preach to the "rogues and revelers" making their homes there.
Presbyterian Rev. James McGready not only responded but brought his petite wife and two daughters to join him. Who could have predicted that God would use McGready to spearhead the beginning of the second most powerful spiritual awakening this nation had ever seen?
Who indeed?
Sarah McMillan, a young woman brought to northern Tennessee by her hard, abrasive father, certainly wouldn't have guessed such a thing. In fact, she had her doubts as to whether God even existed. If He did, He must not be much concerned with the McMillans. When Sarah receives a letter to join her aunt in Kentucky and is sent to help out during the harvest season, she finds herself overwhelmed by new emotions -- love, loyalty, family devotion. Then she goes to the meeting house, hears Rev. McGready present the Gospel, and watches the hand of God move all around her.
Can God actually change her miserable life?
In Melanie Meadow's latest release, The Waking Up, the reader journeys back to a time of simplicity, yet it is also a period full of raw emotion and powerful personalities. Using the eyes of a young woman who is not a believer, Meadow puts readers under the voice of McGready and opens their eyes to the significant move of the Spirit of God. By using documents written by McGready's own hand, Meadow relates the events with accuracy while creating a few added fictional characters to play out the story.
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ColorBlind
It’s the summer of 1968 — the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was recently assassinated, Nixon is about to become president, and 12-year-old Mildred Juniper Rhodes is in a quandary. Her Daddy got a wild hair to move to Piedmont Ridge, S.C., to pastor a church filled with coloreds and whites — which isn’t making much of anybody happy.
When the town’s crazy widow, a dairy farmer, becomes one of Mildred’s only friends, Mildred realizes that things are bad. Add to that having to go to church in a run-down Bingo Hall, facing flaming threats of violence in her own front yard, and a run-in with a homeless man — it gets worse and worse.
But when Miz Wanda Broomer’s husband begins to leave bruises and cuts all over his wife’s face and Mildred’s daddy has to step in, this preacher’s daughter finds herself in the middle of a heap of trouble. Will she be able to keep herself together long enough to save the day?
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20 Days of Reflection
in Anticipation of Resurrection Sunday
Created for busy people who long for a spiritual connection during the Easter season, '"20 Days of Reflection" offers a simple Christian devotion for each of those days leading up to Resurrection Sunday.
In addition, each day offers one-to-two Scripture references that tie into the theme; however, this is not an in-depth Bible study booklet. In the same genre as "Jesus Calling" by Sarah Young, "20 Days of Reflection" focuses more on contemplation and thought about Passion Week rather than a regimented Bible study program. The reader will follow the chronological path that Jesus Christ walked for the five days leading to His crucifixion. From seeing Him ride into Jerusalem that Sunday to a Tuesday night celebration in Bethany, the reader will begin to put all Passion Week events into perspective, and then have the freedom to apply those lessons to their own lives. With easy-to-follow formatting and non-date specific sequencing, this is a Christian devotional readers will want to pull out each year to remind them of the true celebration of Resurrection Sunday.