About the Book
Book: HopeFULL: Your 30-Day Devotional to Discover Biblical Hope
Authors: Marta E Greenman and Maureen H Maldonado
Genre: Devotional
Release date: November 27, 2023
God can turn despair into hope even in a world that seems to be falling apart. He instilled hope in David, Esther, the Children of Israel, Paul, and the twelve apostles, and He can instill hope inside you. God is the giver of hope; we just need to find His prescription for hope in His Word. This 30-Day Devotional gives an in-depth look at Scripture and Biblical Hope. Join us today.
Learn:
• From various Biblical figures, how hope can be found in a turbulent world.
• The different Hebrew and Greek meanings of hope in Scripture.
• How to apply God’s strategies for living a HopeFULL life.
Read Old Testament and New Testament accounts of Biblical hope along with personal stories of how God has worked in the lives of His children around the world. Thoughtful reflection question provides a jumping off point for personal or group study.
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I received a complimentary copy of this book, all opinions given are my own and not an endorsement of all authors opinions.
Authors’ Interview
1. Why did you want to become an author?
Maureen – Because Marta made me. J
Marta – Because God told me too. J I wanted to write for a long time but never felt the timing was right but when I felt God was calling me to write Biblical material, I felt very unworthy, and it came down to obedience. (This is my seventh book)
2. What was the most challenging part of the writing process for you and why?
Maureen – to make myself sit down, block out the world, study and just do it.
Marta – Time. As a leader of a ministry and co-host of a radio show, time is always a challenge.
3. What did your research process look like for this book?
We begin by research all the words for hope (we do this for all the devotionals such as fear, and love, and prayer etc.). Then we begin to choose the Scriptures we believe we will want to write about. This would be fifteen a piece, but we usually choose up to eighteen each, just in case we need to switch. Then we begin to look up the Hebrew or Greek words and put the book into proper sequence. We start to talk about our stories that go with the topic at hand. Then we begin to write. This process takes sometimes a couple of weeks before we ever start writing.
4. What was something new you learned while writing this book?
The Bible is full of stories of hope as well as modern-day hopeful true-life stories.
5. What audience did you have in mind when writing this book?
While we know the majority of our audience is Christian women over thirty-five, we don’t limit our writing. For instance, we have a large male audience for the devotional FearLESS and some of our reviews on Amazon include atheist, who have given us very favorable reviews.
6. How did you balance keeping your book informative yet engaging as a non-fiction?
It’s God’s Word, but with that said our layout of combining color, pictures and stories help to engage our audience and make it more personal.
7. Did you have to step out of your comfort zone to write this book? If so, how?
Maureen – No and yes. This is our third devotional we have written together but our first one FearLESS was a challenge. I never thought of writing a book until Marta approached me. My first answer was no and no thank you, but she asked me to pray about and God said Yes. Therefore, I had to trust that HE would give me the tools to accomplish the task.
Marta – This is the seventh book I have written so I do feel very comfortable in the writing arena, but just like Maureen when God called me to begin writing, I really struggled, and God had to work on me for at least six months before I finally said yes. It came down to obedience and trusting God.
8. How did you celebrate when you completed your book?
Good question. We really haven’t but this is a good reminder to celebrate every completed devotional.
9. Do you have a favorite drink or snack for when you’re writing?
Maureen – snack: depends on the day anything from trail mix to cheezits, drink: - water or ice tea, music: graceandtruthradio.world
Marta – snack: from trail mix to blueberry goat cheese, drink: I’m a water gal, music: is loud Christian music on graceandtruthradio.world
10. What message do you hope readers take away from your book?
God is a God of Hope, never give up hope and God’s Word has the answer to all your questions.
About the Authors
Marta E Greenman – Marta left corporate America in 1998 to become a staff missionary with a church planting organization known today as e3Partners where she led American churches in planting new ones with international church partners. During this period, Marta spent much of her time in the field on evangelism and discipleship traveling to Columbia, Mexico, Moldova, Peru, Romania, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe. She also had the privilege of leading women’s conferences in biblical training.
Marta began teaching Inductive Bible Study at her home church in 1997 where she taught faithfully for fifteen years. Debbie Stuart, a Women’s Ministry Director, said, “Marta Greenman is a master teacher weaving biblical principles, personal stories and clear application with every lesson. She walks in Truth and loves the Word and has dedicated her life to teaching that Truth to women.”
After seven years on the mission field in Romania, Marta began to write Bible study curriculum. Her first study, Bound To Be Free, was published in 2011. May 2011, Marta founded Words of Grace & Truth, a ministry devoted to teaching God’s Word to the nations and teaching others to do the same, through the curriculum God birthed through her teaching ministry. Since then, Leaders, Nations and God and ACTs420NOW have been published. Today she continues to write a series of twelve 30-day devotionals with co-author Maureen H. Maldonado. Their first is entitled FearLESS: God is calling you to be fearless and to FearLESS, second LoveMORE: Your 30-Day Devotional to learn to love like Jesus, third is HopeFULL: Your 30-Day Devotional to Discover Biblical Hope.
Marta’s added GraceAndTruthRadio.World (GTRW), a global radio outreach to the world with God’s message of grace and truth. You can hear her show, Under God with co-host Maureen Maldonado, on GTRW, Monday’s at 3:00pm CST. The passion of her ministry, regardless of the nation she may be in, is teaching God’s Word and equipping others to teach. She is a gifted teacher, speaker and expositor of God’s Word.
Maureen H. Maldonado – Maureen is the second of seven children. Growing up in a home where worldly wealth was a foreign concept, she always felt treasured by her parents and knew she was rich in love. Maureen married young and raised two amazing daughters. Her grandchildren are a blessing beyond anything she could imagine. Recently, she was able to add two granddaughters-in-love who add joy to the mix; and the best yet, God has blessed her with a great-granddaughter!
Maureen has a master’s degree in education from California State University and spent her career as a teacher, vice-principal, and principal in elementary education. Maureen never planned to leave California or the education system, but God had other plans.
After Maureen’s husband was transferred to Arizona in 2006, then to Texas in 2011, she spent several years teaching ‘Just Moved,’ a Christian-based ministry program developed by Susan Miller for women moving homes because of life changes (https://justmoved.org). God used her teaching education and experience as a training ground to begin preparing for Him.
Involved in Bible studies in California, Arizona, and Texas, Maureen grew exponentially in her faith and love of God and His Word. The culmination of these experiences led her to co-host the radio program ‘Under God’ on GraceAndTruthRadio.World, where God’s Word is taught to the nations.
Today, Maureen is using her new-to-her method of studying the Bible and her long-applied teaching methods to teach the next generation of believers. Her prayer is for others to gain as much insight into God’s transformational Word as she has received. She describes it as “opening the shades and letting in all the sunlight on a gloomy day.” Maureen feels honored and humbled to be a part of Words of Grace & Truth and asks others to join in prayer for this needed ministry, the church, our country, and our world. LoveMORE is the second devotional Maureen has co-authored with Marta. Their first devotional was FearLESS: God is calling you to be fearless and to fear less.
Maureen and her husband, Raymond, reside in Texas, where they have transplanted almost their entire family from California.
More from Marta and Maureen
HopeFULL is the third in a series of twelve 30-Day devotionals covering various topics. With titles like FearLESS, LoveMORE and HopeFULL you will discover what God’s Word has to say on each topic. Each book has 4 components, First, 30 Devotionals on the chosen subject. Second, Reflection questions. Third, each book delves into the original language of Hebrew and Greek to help discover what God is trying to communicate to us. Finally, each book has stories, to help illustrate how God still works today.
Blog Stops
Book Reviews From an Avid Reader, May 31
Inspired by Fiction, June 1
Artistic Nobody, June 2 (Author Interview)
Happily Managing a Household of Boys, June 2
Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, June 3
A Modern Day Fairy Tale, June 4 (Author Interview)
Abba’s Prayer Warrior Princess, June 5
Its Mama Safe, June 6
Guild Master, June 7 (Author Interview)
Texas Book-aholic, June 8
Cover Lover Book Review, June 9
A Reader’s Brain, June 10 (Author Interview)
Mary Hake, June 10
Locks, Hooks and Books, June 11
Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, June 12
Blossoms and Blessings, June 13 (Author Interview)
Giveaway
To celebrate their tour, Marta and Maureen are giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon gift card and a copy of the book!!
Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.
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