For Christian mid-school entertainment, you’d have to look long and hard to beat this series. The Redemptive Barton Family Adventure Series takes the genre up a couple of steps. To quote from the blurb: The Barton Family Adventures are filled with Christian … Continue reading →
Book Three in the Hidden Thrones Series is the Spirit-filled thriller Face to Face. Russ Scalzo has continued his story in fine fashion as it builds into what will surely be an exciting conclusion. Book four is due in February, … Continue reading →
So, you’re called to write, and your books are important to you. But in the Lord’s eye, your character not stories matter. Who you are is His primary focus. This is always His focus, and what He loves about you. … Continue reading →
Is writing parables required for Christian fiction? Probably. The Lord has been showing me scriptures about this for a couple of decades now. It just finally clicked. Yes, I’m kind of slow at times. I was reading Luke a few … Continue reading →
For several decades, I’ve pondered the enigmatic verse in Isaiah 30:25 about the day the towers fall. For a long time I was convinced it will be all the minarets, but what else can it be? What clues do we … Continue reading →
All of our direction comes from Messiah’s Mind. If it doesn’t we’re fools, at best. Everything we do down here is merely the seed for what happens after we go. As usual, John Follette says it well: I am so … Continue reading →
What the Lord has been showing me this morning is that we are to be immersed under His power. Jesus didn’t give me something to do, but someone to become. I needed to be made into the proper brick for … Continue reading →
It becomes more and more true that we live in a reader beware world today. I can’t remember the last time I read a traditionally published “Christian” book of speculative fiction, sicfi, or fantasy with much Truth in it. Usually, they … Continue reading →
This book is #3 of the Seer series, by Dekker’s daughter, Rachelle. I found it to be well written, seriously entertaining, but a spiritual fantasy stripped of truth. I haven’t read The Choosing, book one in the series or The Calling, book … Continue reading →
As we are obedient to write, as the result of His call, creative writing in the Holy Spirit becomes possible. But before that we must let Him, nay ask Him, to change us. For Jesus’ agenda is to make us … Continue reading →