Salvation

February 15th, 2025

“Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.”

Revelation 7:10 TLV

Abiding

November 23rd, 2024

I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for apart from Me, you can do nothing.

TLV John 15:5

Obedience

November 16th, 2024

“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”

John 14:15 TLV

Dwell in the Land

November 9th, 2024
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Trust in Adonai and do good.

Dwell in the land and feed on faithfulness.

Psalm 37:3 TLV

Adonai – Hebrew for the Lord

The Soviet Sisters

July 23rd, 2024

Sisters Vera and Marya were brought up as good Soviets: obedient despite hardships of poverty and tragedy, committed to communist ideals, and loyal to Stalin. Several years after fighting on the Eastern front, both women find themselves deep in the mire of conflicts shaping a new world order in 1947 Berlin. When Marya, an interpreter, gets entangled in Vera’s cryptic web of deceit and betrayal, she must make desperate choices to survive—and protect those she loves.

Nine years later, Marya is a prisoner in a Siberian work camp when Vera, a doyenne of the KGB, has cause to reopen her case file and investigate the facts behind her sister’s conviction all those years ago in Berlin. As Vera retraces the steps that brought them both to that pivotal moment in 1947, she unravels unexpected truths and discoveries that call into question the very history the Soviets were working hard to cover up.

Epic and intimate, layered and complex, The Soviet Sisters is a gripping story of spies, blackmail, and double, triple bluff. With her dexterous plotting and talent for teasing out moral ambiguity, Anika Scott expertly portrays a story about love, conflicting world views, and loyalty and betrayal between sisters. 

I love historical fiction as I always learn something new. This book is informative regarding WWII and post war history. I had to look up the difference between MGV and KGB.

This story shows us two sisters who are very different in many ways. But also alike in others. The difference comes between choosing love or duty,

Vera decides to research Marya’s case. Doesn’t she already know since she’s part of it? This research is like peeling layers of an onion.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Thank you, Ms Scott.

Anika was born on an air force base in Illinois, spent her small childhood years in Omaha, and finally moved to Michigan, where she grew up outside of Detroit. She studied international politics and journalism at MSU and Columbia, and worked on staff at The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Chicago Tribune. She now lives in Germany with her husband and two daughters. Her debut historical novel Finding Clara (UK, Hutchinson PRH) / The German Heiress (USA, William Morrow/HC) appeared in spring 2020.

She loves history and wishes she could pop in and out of different eras to see how people *really* lived. She also loves espionage and almost applied to the CIA once. Good thing she didn’t; she would’ve made a pretty rotten spy.

Her author website is at www.anikascott.com

Not Just Bread

July 20th, 2024

But He replied, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.”‘

Matthew 4:4 TLV

Deception

June 1st, 2024

Do not be deceived — God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that he also shall reap.

For the one who sows in the flesh will reap corruption from the flesh. But the one who sows in the Ruach will reap from the Ruach eternal life.

Galatians 6:7-8 TLV

Ruach – Spirit

Worry vs Trust

February 24th, 2024
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So I say to you, do not worry about your life — what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?

Matthew 6:25 TLV

Rejoicing

February 17th, 2024

Rejoice in the Lord always — again I will say, rejoice!

Philippians 4:4 TLV

World vs God

January 27th, 2024

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For everything in the world — the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the boasting of life — is not from the Father but from the world.

1 John 3:15-16 TLV