Young Christian Writers as Ruths: The Power of Consistency While preparing this article, I struggled to give it a name. I wanted writers to talk about their best Bible books and why they love it. Well, let’s still do that. Share your thoughts in the comment section. While you type, let me share one book …
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Life gets noisy with deadlines and distractions. In the busyness, the words dry up, and creativity fades to the background. That’s when I hear the gentle invitation whisper again: Come away with me. It’s an invitation I’ve learned to say yes to. One of the best ways I’ve experienced it is by retreating with other …
Recent political events have left us shaking our heads over the country where that beautiful song was born. But it’s the same old, old story the whole world and the timeline over—of grudges as priorities, of personal interest superseding moral fibre. And my first (rather ungodly) instinct is to crow, ‘It would never happen here.’ …
Last time I wrote an article about the necessity of needing patience when marketing books. If you’re writing a series (which I strongly recommend), then often sales don’t begin to pick up until you reach Book 4. It can be very hard to wait until then. The effectiveness of marketing also diminishes over time as …
Writing and contest news from members of ACFW’s Beyond the Borders zone, plus what they like most about their country
A Million Holy Moments If you’ve read any of my blog posts over the last little while, you would know that there have been some challenges happening in life. Life on the whole is good, but there are little challenges that we deal with that are at times annoying, at times heartbreaking, and most of …
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Isaiah 40:31 But those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. Sometimes procrastination might actually be a necessary pause or redirection in order to regain our strength–strength in our physical body, in our …
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Anticipating Easter As we race towards Easter, and the shops fill with decorations in the pretty pastel tones of a Northern Hemisphere spring, and chocolate chickens, bunnies, bilbies and eggs appear in astonishing quantities, I am reminded again why I love this time of year. It has nothing to do with the Easter Egg hunts …
Once upon a time, it was a common sermon illustration to say that bank tellers handle money so frequently they know when they are holding a counterfeit note. The obvious application was, of course, that the more acquainted you are with God’s truth, the easier it is to spot the enemy’s lies and distortions. While …
