Calling the American church out of the shallows and into the deeper waters of the faith
Do you sometimes think that there must be more to the Christian faith, that the American church seems pretty shallow? Do you want to pursue a deeper walk with Christ? This inaugural episode of The Further Up, Further In Podcast will introduce you to the vision of the podcast and begin to answer your most … Read More “First Things First” »
The waters of the Christian faith are deep, and yet all too often, the American church is content to remain in the shallows. In this episode – the second part of the two-part introduction to the podcast – we talk a little bit about the shallowness of the church and reiterate the invitation to go … Read More “Crowding the Shallows” »
I wanted to post an update on my forthcoming podcast. I’ve been hard at work adapting material I gathered for my book on the shallowness of the American Church and the need to go deeper into podcast episodes. To this point, I’ve recorded 13 episodes, and my guess is that I’ll need about 30 to … Read More “Podcast is Coming” »
As I indicated in the last post, I have recently finished a rough draft of a book I call Further Up, Further In, which is an invitation to move out of the shallows and into the deeper waters of our faith, to pursue a deeper walk with Christ. It’s an area of personal passion, and … Read More “New Projects – Part 2” »
I would imagine most of those people – people, not bots looking for blogposts to attach inane comments to – who find my site do so because of one of my novels. It would make sense, then, that most of the people who read this post might think of me as a novelist, a fiction … Read More “New Projects – Part 1” »
He’s alive. As crazy as it sounds, it’s true. I wouldn’t have believed it possible, but I’ve seen the tomb with my own eyes. More than that, though, I’ve seen Him. It started this morning when the women came hurrying back to us, full of crazy babblings about the stone being rolled away and the … Read More “Peter’s Story – Easter” »
I am just back from Cincinnati where I attended the GHC Midwest for the first time. Conventions like this can be grueling when you’re manning a booth on your own, but fortunately I had an opportunity to catch-up with three old friends who stopped by to help me pass the time at my booth. To each … Read More “GHC Cincinnati ’17” »
Now that I have cover art for The Colder Moon, I wanted to share it. As with The Darker Road and The Lesser Sun, the cover was designed by Daryle Beam of Bright Boy Designs and illustrated by his brother-in-law, Michael Salter. And, like those covers, I think it looks great.
For the few who still check here in the hopes of finding news about the third book of The Wandering series, I have good news. The cover is now finished – at least the front cover. We are still working on the copy for the back cover. The editing is finished, I now have just a … Read More “Coming Soon … The Colder Moon” »
As a young teacher I learned a valuable lesson: the hardest paper to grade was always the first one. The longer I put it off, the more I procrastinated and did something else, the larger the stack of waiting papers loomed and the more difficult it was to start. On the other hand, if I … Read More “First Steps” »
