Are you a Pharisee? How can you tell?
Am I a Pharisee? What About You?
Are you a Pharisee? How can you tell?
A Writer’s Emotions and The End
When I typed The End last night, I began to shake. Finished, done, completed–at least the rough draft. I sat back in my computer chair, put my hands to my face and sobbed. While a writer is like God as she writes her book, plans her story, incorporates facts, and hunts for words, this writer doesn’t always feel like God….
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Safeguards: Bible and Imagination
What safeguards do imaginative teachers and writers use when turning to the Bible? I talked about imagination and the Bible in my last post here. But because we believe the Bible is truth, it’s important to accurately understand it and to be careful not to let our imaginations run wild. Can heresy can come from an imagination that is not safeguarded…
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Imagination and the Bible
I use my imagination all the time when reading the Bible. I put imagination to good use when I teach Bible study. But what does that mean? For me, it started when our youth pastor, Paul Anderson, asked, “imagine how the older brother feels,” when discussing the parable of The Prodigal Son. I was a new-to-Christianity 15-year-old and in the six minutes…
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Living Inside God’s Frame
What does a picture frame have to do with the Christian life? It depends how you look at it. The idea/words popped out of my mouth a number of years ago while talking with a childhood friend. We had grown up in each other’s library books while in elementary school, but the last time I’d seen her was at the 1984…
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Pinterest and World War I
I’ve been maintaining a Pinterest board for World War I for a dozen years. It’s part of the background for A Poppy in Remembrance, a novel set during World War I. The novel is a coming-of-age story about a young woman growing emotionally, spiritually, and professionally during the war. Oswald and Biddy Chambers are marquee characters in the novel, which is…
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