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  • No Snickering, No Mockery and No Contempt - Well, Maybe a Little Bit

    July 29th, 200911:53 AM ET
    By Linda Massey Weddle
    The talk show segment was entitled "No Stupid Questions" and was designed to encourage listeners to pose their unanswered questions about life. As the hosts introduced the topic they reminded everyone there would be no snickering, no mockery and no contempt as people asked their questions and other people answered. This was an opportunity to freely...

  • Seeking an Enlargement of Our Being

    July 25th, 200907:27 AM ET
    By Richard Doster
    A good friend of mine doesn't read fiction. Why, he asks, would I spend precious time reading about things that aren't true? Why would I get tangled up in a story that never happened? Why, he insists on knowing, should I get emotionally involved in some fictional set of circumstances when my own family's every bit as dysfunctional as Pat Conroy's? ...

  • Eternal-Value Moments

    July 21st, 200902:08 PM ET
    By Linda Massey Weddle
    Do something of eternal value everyday. My dad was a master at creating pithy phrases. As a pastor, his mind was always working on forming concise thoughts. At home, we heard the resulting phrases with regularity. I grew up hearing words of wisdom reminding me to consider my options or to work hard and play hard or to give any job the extra ten mi...

  • Rethinking Christian Literature

    July 19th, 200907:21 AM ET
    By Richard Doster
    Ask your neighbors for an off-the-cuff reaction to the words "Christian literature" and you're likely to hear them stumble through a list of belittling adjectives. Despite the swelling ranks of able Christian writers, the reaction demonstrates that we're viewed as an inconsequential presence in the world of literature. This image belies reality-in ...

  • Nothing New Under the Sun: The Link between Native Spirituality and the Occult by Jenn Doucette

    July 17th, 200902:47 PM ET
    By WinePress Publishing
    "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." - King Solomon (Ecclesiastes 1:9, NIV) Not surprisingly, King Solomon had it right; there really is nothing new under the sun. Translated in modern-day lingo: been there done that. And while this applies to pleasure, love, marriage, death,...

  • BAN CUTESIFYING

    July 14th, 200904:26 PM ET
    By Linda Massey Weddle
    We need to stop cutesifying Bible stories and teach our kids the all-empowering sovereignty of God and how that sovereignty is relevant to their lives.  (Yes, I know that cutesifying isn't a word, but you get what I'm saying.) Recently I taught a children's church lesson about Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt. According to the teache...

  • One Man's Journey

    July 14th, 200912:57 PM ET
    By Audra Jennings
    Q & A with Arthur Blessitt, author of The Cross The Cross by Arthur Blessitt On June 13, 2008, Arthur Blessitt walked his 38,102nd mile in Zanzibar, off of the coast of Tanzania, completing a journey that began in 1969. Arthur started walking with a twelve-foot cross on December 25, 1969, and has successfully carried a large wooden cro...

  • David C Cook Novel Receives 2009 Christy Award

    July 13th, 200905:42 PM ET
    By Audra Jennings
    Blue Hole Back Home by Joy Jordan-Lake Jordan-Lake's Blue Hole Back Home wins the First Novel category Publisher David C Cook is pleased to announce that author Joy Jordan-Lake has received 2009 Christy Award for excellence in Christian Fiction. The award was presented on July 11, 2009 at the tenth annual Christy Awards presentation prece...

  • Author Changes Orphans' Lives with Education

    July 06th, 200904:19 PM ET
    By Audra Jennings
    From Fiction to Real Life, Author Changes Orphans' Lives with Education Author Tom Davis and Children's HopeChest sponsor the Scared $1 Million Education Fund and Writing Contest I shall live in hope of getting what I seek another day. ~Swazi proverb Tom Davis, President of Children's HopeChest The number one need in Swaziland, Africa, is n...

  • A Lie That Makes Us Realize the Truth

    July 04th, 200903:28 PM ET
    By Richard Doster
    I read novels with pencil in hand, ready to underline a sentence that's beautiful, a metaphor that's especially scenic, or any phrase that prompts an appreciative smile. Here, from page eighty-three of The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers, are three examples: "Dalia sang fearlessly. She threw back her head and nailed free-flying notes like a ...

  • When Art Imitates Life

    July 03rd, 200902:14 PM ET
    By WinePress Publishing
    Shaun Schutte and Brogan Kessler have a lot in common. Born and raised in South Africa, both men spent several years in the South African Army, have families to support, and currently make their living as hired guns-otherwise known as professional bodyguards--in the Middle East. The differences between the two are more significant, however; Shaun ...

  • An Epic of Eternal Proportions

    July 01st, 200903:10 PM ET
    By Audra Jennings
    GodStories by Andrew Wilson In his latest release, Andrew Wilson explores fifty-six of the glorious stories that make up the gospel of God and will change the way we live and worship Today, multitudes see theology as a rabbit warren of concepts without narratives, a series of points, principles, and theories that take all the best bits ...
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