Award-Winning, Bestselling Christian Author
THIS MINUTE a friend of mine is having an angiogram. A doc is threading a catheter up his femoral artery to scout out the heart for any blockage or damage. I visited my friend in the hospital a little while ago and prayed for him just a few minutes …
JOHN MARK is not the brother of Barnabas, despite what I wrote in Who’s Who & Where’s Where in the Bible 2.0. Look on page 264 and you’ll discover my humanity. The feature begins: BROTHER OF BARNABAS, John Mark didn’t finish what he started. If …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Tony Nave, on my Facebook page. Tony gets a free book for his curiosity. With the way the world is today with the shootings in the schools and the laws about guns and the economy letting people down. What …
I ONCE HEARD bestselling Christian author Philip Yancey say that writers are control freaks. I can’t speak for all writers. But I can speak for myself. When it comes to my writing and the art research that goes into my illustrated books, I am a …
LIKE MANY OF YOU I feel a bit helpless these days. In our free society, we can’t always stop the bad guys from doing bad things that hurt us. Nor can we always get the supposedly good guys to do the good things that help us. Are you reading this, …
I HAD LUNCH with my son yesterday. We talked about the Boston Marathon bombing, of course. I asked if he had watched the news and looked at the online photos. He had. He cried. Like many of us. He said one brief scene in a video clip tipped him over. …
I COULDN’T BELIEVE IT. I was still dealing with pushback from yesterday morning’s blog post titled, “Where is God when bullets fly?” and then up pops the news flash: Bomber strikes Boston Marathon. A childhood friend of mine was hoping to run in that …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Erin Drew, who wins a free book for her trouble. The recent tragedy in Connecticut [a shooting that killed 20 children and 6 adults in Sandy Hook Elementary School] brought up this question from my fiancé, …
PRACTICE ON YOUR DOG if, like me, you find it tough to dish out compliments. Or practice on your cat. Or your potted petunia. If you are anything like me, it comes a whole lot more natural to criticize, complain, and pick at people than it does to …
THERE’S A SPARROW ten feet from my head. It’s perched on a budding redbud tree outside the window of my second-story home office. Buddy the Dog lies sprawled on the carpeted floor behind me, eyes closed. So the sparrow can rest in peace on its …
“Here is a simple, rule-of-thumb guide for behavior: Ask yourself what you want people to do for you, then grab the initiative and do it for them” (Matthew 7:12, The Message). THOSE OF YOU who know a bit about me from my writing might be surprised by …
High-profile pastor Rick Warren, author of the best-selling book “The Purpose Driven Life,” lost his 27-year-old son late last week. The young man, Matthew, apparently took his own life. A statement issued by Rev. Warren’s church, Saddleback …
