Welcome Tamera!
Tamera Lynn Kraft has always loved adventures. She loves to write historical fiction set in the United States because there are so many stories in American history. There are strong elements of faith, romance, suspense and adventure in her stories. She has received 2nd place in the NOCW contest, 3rd place TARA writer’s contest, and is a finalist in the Frasier Writing Contest and has other novels and novellas in print. She’s been married for 39 years to the love of her life, Rick, and has two married adult children and three grandchildren.
Tamera has been a children’s pastor for over 20 years. She is the leader of a ministry called Revival Fire for Kids where she mentors other children’s leaders, teaches workshops, and is a children’s ministry consultant and children’s evangelist and has written children’s church curriculum. She is a recipient of the 2007 National Children’s Leaders Association Shepherd’s Cup for lifetime achievement in children’s ministry.
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What Would You Do?
By
Tamera Lynn Kraft
When I was researching my new novel, Red Sky Over America, set shortly before
the Civil War, I focused on the conflict America must have felt when she
confronted her father with the truth. America knew slavery was against God's
commandments, yet her father owned slaves. She could ignore what her father was
doing while she went to Oberlin College in Ohio. After all, he was in Kentucky.
Besides, she was a woman and his daughter. He wouldn't listen to her.
The conflict started in the first
chapter of the novel when the Holy Spirit prompted America to go home to
Kentucky and confront her father. She had no misgivings about it turning out
well, yet she still obeyed God and became His servant. At one point in the
novel, she was talking to one of her father's slaves.
Ruth's shoulders
slumped. "No, child, I'll never go against what the Good Lord tells you,
but it's bound to end poorly."
"I know."
America's voice thickened. "God didn't promise me it would turn out well,
but He told me what I must do, and I'm set on doing it."
Peter and John had a similar situation
in the Book of Acts. They were brought before the religious leaders of their
time and were told to stop preaching the Gospel. This was their response.
"Then Peter and the other apostles
answered and said, 'We ought to obey God rather than men.'"
At some point in our lives, God may
call us to do a hard thing, something that goes against our culture and our
families. The question is do we obey God even when we know things might not go
well.
What I want the reader to take away
from Red Sky Over America is the commitment these men and women abolitionists
made to God even though they were going against the culture of their time. May
we have that same commitment to obey God even if it means going into the fire!
Hebrews 13:6 "So that we may boldly
say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear
what man shall do unto me."
Red
Sky Over America
Ladies of Oberlin, Book 1
By Tamera Lynn Kraft
In 1857, America, the daughter of a slave
owner, is an abolitionist and a student at Oberlin College, a school known for
its radical ideas. America goes home to Kentucky during school break to
confront her father about freeing his slaves.
America's classmate, William, goes to
Kentucky to preach abolition to churches that condone slavery. America and
William find themselves in the center of the approaching storm sweeping the
nation and may not make it home to Ohio or live through the struggle.
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Okay, all you historical lovers, is this a keeper?
Many of us know about being called by God to do hard things. Have you been called to do some hard things? What was it?
Thanks for sharing about your book with us, Tamera!
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