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I never thought I would be defending Pastor Greg Laurie but some of you are getting completely out of hand and somebody needs to say something. Let me start with the basic facts that a...
The Writing Life
SEER was the book I had to write before I could write Black Water. Not because the stories are connected. They are not. Different characters. Different world. Different everything on the surface. But underneath they are connected by the writer who made them. SEER was where I learned what I did not know. Black Water...
The Writing Life
SEER did not land the way I hoped. The reviews were not kind. Not in the way that means people were cruel — most readers are not cruel, they are just honest in the way that only anonymity allows. The feedback was that the story had problems. Structural problems. Things that a more experienced writer...
Faith Flow
I have known men who have been saved for twenty years and are still having the same spiritual struggles they had in year one. Same temptations. Same blind spots. Same arguments with God about the same territory He asked them to surrender two decades ago. They know the Word. They attend church. They have the...
The Writing Life
I self published SEER in December of 2018. No agent. No traditional publisher. No industry connections pulling strings or opening doors. Just a manuscript I had written, a cover I had designed or commissioned, and a button on a self publishing platform that said publish. I pushed it. The decision to self publish came from...
Faith Flow
Nobody announces the valley. The mountaintop gets a post. The breakthrough gets a testimony. The answered prayer gets the praise report and the raised hands and the forty-seven comments from people who were believing with you. And all of that is good and right and worth celebrating. But the valley — the long middle where...
The Writing Life
The lead character in SEER is a young man named Craig Anderson. Craig is fatherless. His father is gone — out of the picture in the way fathers sometimes leave a space in a young man’s life that nothing else fills cleanly. He has a mentor named Richard Kinson who steps into some of that...
The Writing Life
Before SEER there was In the Blood. Same book. Different name. Same story of a young man named Craig Anderson whose dreams were coming to pass in real life and who did not know what to do about it. Same mentor in Richard Kinson helping him understand that what he thought were just dreams were...
Faith Flow
There are seasons where the Word feels flat. You open it and read it and close it and feel nothing. The same passages that used to land hard now pass through without friction. The verse that wrecked you two years ago reads like a familiar street sign — you see it, you recognize it, you...
The Writing Life
I never took a writing class. No MFA. No workshop. No mentor who sat across from me with a red pen and a theory about structure. I learned to write the way I learned everything else that mattered — by paying attention to people who were already doing it well and figuring out what they...
There is a man who can tell you everything about God. The attributes. The names. The theological categories. He can walk you through systematic theology with confidence. He knows the arguments. He can defend the faith in a debate and cite chapter and verse without looking it up. His knowledge is real and it took...