Calling the American church out of the shallows and into the deeper waters of the faith
Christmas has come and gone once more, and now the dawning of the New Year awaits. For children, it is so hard to let Christmas go as it fades in the rearview mirror. After all, there is so much anticipation and build up, they feel it is somehow wrong that the day can simply pass … Read More “What Did You Get?” »
Over the course of the Motiv8 blog tour we’ve been running since October, I’ve had thoughts along the way about things I’d like to blog about when it was finished. Of course, there wasn’t any stipulation that we had to leave our posts up all week about the author of the week, so I could … Read More “Back in the Saddle” »
This past Sunday, good friends of ours lost their 19 month old boy, Jordan. He had a rare condition, which I won’t try to explain here, but even though he faced serious challenges to his health, his older brother, Josh, who has the same condition, is almost 11. In short, Josh has beaten the odds … Read More “Gratitude in the face of sorrow” »
As this week is the week that the authors on the Fantasy Fiction Tour ’08 are going to be posting about me, I thought I’d put up a short introduction to me & to my works for those who might come by to see a bit more about who I am. My name is L.B., … Read More “A Brief Introduction” »
From now until shortly before Christmas, the authors involved in the Fantasy Fiction Tour ’08 will be collaborating on a joint blog tour. We’ll be focusing each Monday – or thereabouts – on a different author each week. Our hope is to encourage readers who have experienced one or two of us and our work, … Read More “Motiv8 Blog Tour” »
With many thanks to Rob Treskillard who designed this for me, I wanted to show some of the fine work he’s done for me on this site. This is the graphic you’ll find under “My Books” at the top of the page. Click on a spine to see the book,and click on the book to … Read More “Binding Of The Blade Bookshelf” »
Tomorrow evening I board the plane for Seattle, and on Saturday the Fantasy Fiction Tour 2008 officially begins for Wayne Thomas Batson and me, as we join the other six authors who have an additional stop in Canada on Friday. If you’d like to watch some of the events live, here’s your chance. As the … Read More “Motiv8 Fantasy Fiction Tour Video” »
This is the last of my posts originally written for the Motiv8 website. It caused a bit of a stir there, so I anticipate there may be reactions here. Feel free to comment. With the Tour gearing up to begin in less than two weeks, this might be the last post in our brief series … Read More “More Than Moralism” »
In the spirit of recycling posts I wrote for the Fantasy Fiction Tour ’08 website, here’s another from a few weeks ago. I believe it was Edith Hamilton in her classic work on mythology that suggested the purpose of the monsters in Greek myths was to give the heroes opportunities to demonstrate their greatness. Ie, … Read More “Villains & Conflict” »
It is interesting how things work, sometimes. The previous post was from Friday, and as the tone of it suggests, I was feeling pretty unsure of where I am as a professional writer and where I am going. That evening when I got home, my wife had picked some movies up from the library. (I’m … Read More “Raise Your Hopeful Voice” »
