Award-Winning, Bestselling Christian Author
BIBLE GUY is what one the top execs in Christian publishing called me at the annual book conference last week. Surprised the dickens out of me. He rattled off the names of earlier Bible Guys. Gents I knew by their top-selling Bible reference books. …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. Sylvia Chillcott gets a free book for asking the question: Why do people say a person is no longer in the grave at death, but their soul has gone to heaven? The Bible tells us that those who are asleep will be taken up …
IT’S A TAD EMBARRASSING now that I think about it. Who hugs a Mennonite stranger at a book convention? Me. I couldn’t help myself. Actually, the problem might have been that I didn’t stop long enough to think about what I was doing. My wife and I …
THERE’S ONE BATTLE I often have to fight when I send a book off to a publisher. It’s not usually a pitched battle – though on one occasion I withdrew my manuscript from a publisher because of it. The trouble starts with my mission: I write books …
Here’s a bit more of what I started in yesterday’s blog. I’m in St. Louis at the annual convention of Christian booksellers. I’m scheduled for some media interviews along with meetings with my editors and my agent. …
As this blog post makes its way to the light of day, I’m in St. Louis at the annual convention of Christian booksellers. I’m scheduled for some media interviews along with meetings with my editors and my agent. There’s a lot of …
RUSHING OUT THE DOOR this morning, I’m off to help a friend help a friend move. But I woke up thinking of something sad. My lady pastor leaves on Sunday, Molly Simpson. One of the finest pastors I’ve ever had. I told her so yesterday when …
APPLE PRODUCTS don’t usually get me to thinking about God. If anything, they point me in the other direction. That’s because I don’t usually think about them until they start giving me problems. GarageBand is an exception. It’s an app I downloaded to …
SOMETIME AFTER MIDNIGHT I remembered I hadn’t written today’s blog. I would have written something for you, but you would not have wanted to read it. So I went to bed. Good news, though, I already wrote tomorrow’s blog. There, …
The following is an excerpt from Who’s Who and Where’s Where in the Bible 2.0. IT’S HARD TO SAY ANYTHING GOOD about Samson, once you’ve read his story. Especially perplexing is why God chose him to become a national hero. And why an unnamed writer in …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Gary Lee Parker of San Diego. He wins a free book for taking the time to send me the question. Here’s what Gary wants to know. “Is the word and concept of Rapture in the Bible? If not, when did the concept …
AT THE END of a beautiful week, I am thankful to God for a bunch of things. I’ll mention a few. But first, I thought I would check out what folks were thanking God for in the Bible. Thanks in the Bible Here’s what some Bible folks thanked God for: …
