For a couple of decades I’ve enjoyed intimacy with God. It has, however, been impossible to experience this without bringing the Creator down to my own level, in human terms, so to speak. But how else can any of us even dare to experience knowing Him? After I believed in Him as my personal Savior, I wanted to live…
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It’s been weeks since I blogged. I paused working on the new book Come and See, leaving off with the voice of Jesus during His first miracle that publicly began His reign as Sovereign over the earth. It was His first public act of supernatural authority. So extravagantly done, it was actually humorous of Him. With…
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As I promised, here is the next excerpt from the devotional book I’m working on titled COME AND SEE. In the future I hope to have a separate page for these excerpts, and I’ll let you know when it is in place. That way, you’ll be able to read all the chapters as I get…
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I am reading Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters by N. T. Wright, a brilliant historian and Bible scholar. I have gleaned from Wright’s books before, as resource material for my second New Testament novel, His Kingdom Come. I bought his new book because of…
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I can’t help but think about the love Jesus brought everywhere He went. This story is the next segment of the devotional eBook I’m working on making my way through the Gospel narratives of his life. In case you are new to this blog, the book is titled “Come and See” and this particular chapter…
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This is an excerpt from the eBook I’m working on. For those of you reading each week, I’m making my way through the Gospel narratives of Jesus’ life. This is the next chronological event and is based on the truth of the Scriptures. It’s an imaginative, artistic rendering of Jesus to, hopefully, inspire hearts, and help us to apprehend new…
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Onlookers, people like you and me, witnessed the unveiled mystery of heaven for the first time on the shoreline of the Jordan River. It was the day Jesus stepped into the river to be baptized. It was the moment in history when Jesus began to reveal God’s extravagant love. This was the day onlookers saw and heard, for the first…
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Last week I mentioned the eBook I’m hoping to publish. The following is Chapter 5: Heaven’s Carpenter Jesus was More Than Met the Eye Jesus left his glory and home in Heaven thirty years before he left house and home in Galilee. Leaving everything behind once more, the carpenter of Nazareth,…
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Have you ever noticed how sunflowers bend or turn to face the sun? It amazes me how much our hearts are so inclined to face the Son. We simply want Him and need Him. A while ago I felt dull towards God and said a simple prayer about it. Just mention this to Him and…
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One of my favorite authors is Brennan Manning. His books are filled with deep understanding of God’s love—and I don’t just read his books once—I return to them over and over again. He knows how to take the words of Scripture and make them apply to my life in ways that reach down deep inside…
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