Kathi Macias Books in Order

Seven stories for children address challenges including disability, moving, sibling conflict, prejudice, and homelessness. The characters learn to respond through faith and prayer, offering readers ways to think about compassion, uncertainty, and the difficulties of everyday life.

Seven stories follow teenagers facing difficult choices involving peer pressure, jealousy, family separation, grief, and responsibility. Through their responses to ordinary fears and moral challenges, the collection explores the support that Christian faith and prayer can offer.

Macias addresses mothers deciding whether to work outside the home or remain at home with their children. Her practical reflections focus on weighing that choice deliberately and considering how it fits the responsibilities of family life.

An aging football star searches for meaning beyond the sport that has defined him. Meeting an orphan seeking love draws him into the realities of urban street life and challenges him to discover how one person's choices can matter.

Raised amid abuse and racist beliefs, Emma Jean escapes to California hoping to reinvent her life. Further hardships eventually draw her home, where an old classmate and a church community help her confront the past and establish an identity of her own.

Macias explains a method for turning scattered ideas into clear, organized manuscripts. Drawing on her experience teaching beginning writers, she focuses on developing, arranging, and polishing material through sustained work rather than relying on inspiration alone.

Using personal stories, historical examples, and biblical teaching, Macias explores moving beyond self-interest toward Christian discipleship. She invites readers to examine everyday priorities and consider what following Jesus means for how they treat and serve other people.

Macias reflects humorously on trying to live up to Proverbs 31 while managing an imperfect life. Her experiences lead toward relinquishing control and unrealistic expectations, presenting spiritual growth as learning to trust rather than achieving flawless performance.

Macias examines fifteen biblical mothers to explore challenges that remain familiar in family life. Their stories frame reflections on fear, grief, discontent, and gratitude, with prayers and personal questions connecting scriptural examples to contemporary motherhood.

After her mother is brutally murdered, Liz Peterson faces another devastating shock when her son is arrested for the crime. Her grief and divided loyalties become a test of faith as she struggles with forgiveness and the possibility of reconciliation.

Pastor Hector carries Bibles into parts of Mexico hostile to Christian ministry, while his mother stays to teach villagers to read. After violence strikes his family, he must decide whether to continue his work despite the danger to those he loves.

In apartheid-era South Africa, an orphaned girl falls for the son of the Afrikaner family whose farm employs her. Renewed tragedy draws her toward armed resistance, forcing her to confront the competing demands of revenge, survival, faith, and forgiveness.

A Chinese woman adopts her husband's Christian faith and faces mounting persecution when she refuses to follow state demands. Imprisonment separates her from her family, but she continues to share her beliefs while struggling with the personal cost of resistance.

Roman princess Valeria loses the Christian soldier she loves to religious persecution, then is forced to marry the man responsible. As her husband unexpectedly changes toward her, she must reconcile grief, faith, and the obligations of a deeply troubled marriage.

A pregnant woman fleeing violence in Mexico and an Arizona widow bitter over her husband's death follow separate paths toward the same Christmas Eve refuge. Their meeting forces both to confront loss and discover an unexpected connection across their fears.

A young Saudi woman's dream leads her to question her Muslim upbringing, while relatives encounter Christian believers online. Their developing convictions bring conflict within their families, placing friendship, loyalty, and personal safety under increasing pressure.

Widowed mother Kate questions her faith while mourning her father and resisting a deeper relationship with her attorney. A break-in confirms her fear of being followed, and meeting a religious bookseller adds another complication to an increasingly dangerous life.

Mazie faces doubts about her relationship, family history, and inherited prejudices when her great-grandmother introduces a treasured quilt. Stories of courage and freedom represented in its patches challenge her assumptions and help her reconsider the future she wants.

Homeless with two young children, Josie forms a friendship with a disabled veteran while moving between streets and shelters. Their support and the religious messages she hears revive childhood memories of faith as she searches for lasting safety for her family.

A doctor's convictions become personal when her unmarried daughter, a medical student, announces a pregnancy. A Christmas quilt depicting pioneering physician Elizabeth Blackwell prompts her to examine whether she can stand by beliefs she previously held at a distance.

Teaching in Chiapas offers Julie the fresh purpose she hoped to find abroad, but danger before Christmas threatens her freedom. Her reliance on a local pastor becomes an unexpected emotional connection, forcing her to reconsider whether she should leave or stay.

Forty short, undated Christian devotions pair Scripture with personal reflection and practical application. Macias invites readers to pause amid busy routines, reconsider their priorities, and develop a more deliberate relationship with their faith.

Jolissa wants to work with disadvantaged children but fears her speech difficulties will make it impossible. A quilt recounting hymn writer Fanny Crosby's life offers a model of courage, challenging her to act despite the ridicule she has experienced.

Former Marine Chet resists the idea that he needs help adjusting to civilian life, insisting that employment will solve his problems. A connection with his friends' adopted son, who has attachment difficulties, challenges him as Christmas approaches.

A pastor welcomes a promotion that requires his family to move, but his wife wants to remain in the community she loves. Their growing rift forces him to consider whether the care he offers his congregation also reaches his own home.

An Alzheimer's diagnosis unsettles a family and tests the bonds on which its members have relied. As memories disappear and familiar relationships change, the story explores how faith, hope, and love endure through an uncertain future.