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  Future Wears A Strange Face

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  Something calls us back to the simple and idyllic life of an earlier time. Perhaps we long for a kinder time.

  Matt Andrews looks out at a raging blizzard and travels back in mind and spirit to his youth.

  The year is 1946. He walks through another blizzard, looking forward to home after years in the army. He has dreams of going to college and finding a better life.

  But there are challenges. A loving community calling him back. An older father who wants him to take over the farm. A young teacher he loves, but he’s not ready for marriage. The polio epidemic threatens his family. Adjustments to civilian life and college. Tragedies in the family and in his new college life. Uncertainty about the directions to take.

  The future is frightening and unfamiliar. How does God fit into the unfamiliar face of the future?

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  Beyond This Home

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  As time goes on, Matthew and Ellen Anderson can’t help marveling at how life is changing. With all of their children grown and out of the house, they begin to face that they aren’t quite as young as they used to be. What does this mean for their life on the farm? Will Matthew be forced to move to town and leave the hills and open spaces that he loves? And it’s not just Matthew and Ellen, who face hard times. Johnie’s wife struggles with cancer. James, a successful professor and busy father and husband, wonders if he can really fulfill his dreams. Margaret, farm wife and mother of six, struggles with busyness. Carol’s marriage is in trouble, and her relationship to her parents and siblings is strained. Michael, at 23, struggles to find his identity and place in the world-in ways that go against his family’s values. Will the members of the Anderson family find the strength to trust in God and lean on each other? Will broken relationships be healed? Can all of life’s unforeseen changes and challenges be weathered in such a way that the Andersons will remain a tight-knit family?

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  Beyond Those Hills

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  He loved the land.running rich soil through his fingers.how could his brother destroy his dream? Minnesota, 1937. Matthew Anderson wakened from a nightmare which soon became a reality. P.J., his older brother, announces, “The farm is mine!” and Matthew’s world crumbles. Next to Ellen and his children, he loves the land more than anything else. He wonders why God has sent these dry years and has now permitted P.J. to take the farm. Where can he go from here? Matthew’s anger toward P.J. churns inside, creating a bitterness that gnaws away at his body and soul. How will he handle losing the farm he loves and seeing his parents shaken by P.J.’s actions? Can he forgive his brother? Will he find new purpose and meaning in life?

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  Beyond The Darkness

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  In the midst of war, Matthew Anderson seeks peace . . . but will the darkness of conflict at home and abroad destroy his family instead? The farmlands of Minnesota lie far from the gunfire and explosions of World War II, yet Matthew Anderson wages his own battles at home to protect his family and preserve his legacy. Though the destructive actions of his brother P.J. have finally faded into the past, a new danger fills Matthew’s life. In 1945, his country-and his sons-fight the war for freedom around the globe. Though Matthew attempts to find peace in the daily routines of his beloved farm, the black shadows of war never completely leave his thoughts. Yet the darkness also has invaded his life at home-threatening his dreams, his life, his family, even his friendships. Will the Anderson boys, facing dangerous enemies across the world, return home? How will their future, and his own, affect Matthew’s legacy and land? Will peace return to the world at large . . . or to Matthew’s world at home?

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  Beyond The Storm

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  Storms often marked turning points in Matthew Anderson’s life. The 1940 Armistice Day blizzard begins a time of radical change for his entire family. As his idyllic life is disrupted by an unscrupulous brother. This storm and others provide a backdrop for a compelling story of a farm family.

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