Category: My Writings
References to the various forms of my writings
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A Caleb Year for Me
Introduction After five years of fighting to drive the Canaanites out of the land promised to the Israelites, Caleb ben Jephunneh approached Joshua, the leader of the new nation. He wanted to make an interesting request. Now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, Read more
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Review of My 2025
Introduction The end of the year is a typical time to assess the past year and make plans for the next year. I usually do my seeking god and writing goals for the next year between January 2 and the 20th, my birthday. These last couple days of December, it’s time to do a review Read more
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My Prologue about the Parousia
Introduction In 2020, N. T. Wright gave a lecture On the Future of the World. Listening to it recently, I remembered a novel I had written about monastic community evangelism during the coming Millennium. I opened with believers, alive and dead, rising into the air to greet King Jesus as He returned to Jerusalem to Read more
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Gathering of Misfits #2: Coming Soon!
Introduction With the end of October, I have come to the end of the first month of the successful publication of my first Gathering of Misfits novels. That book depicts my vision for a Kingdom monastic community and its planting in a neighborhood rife with prostitution and gang dominance. With the coming of November, I Read more
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Introducing A Gathering of Misfits novel
Introduction I have written before about working on my Gathering of Misfits novels. I wish to announce the publication of the first novel. A Gathering of Misfits is a four-book, concurrent series about a Kingdom community of people who would not typically be welcome in most churches, even though they are believers. Among their members Read more
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Do for Others What You Want Done for You
Introduction Tim Mackie’s Bible Project series of teachings on Abraham brought out an interesting principle in the story of the patriarch’s stopover with King Abimelech of Gerar (Abraham Deceives Abimelech). The principle: Do for others what you want done for you. The Opening of Wombs When Abraham took his wife and household south between Kadesh Read more
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No. 2 Value of the Gathering of Misfits
Introduction It amazes me, at times, how what I hear from my favorite YouTube Bible preachers speaks to what I’m writing in my novels. This morning, I listened to Tim Mackie of the Bible Project speak to the No. 2 Value of the Gathering of Misfits. This Summer of 2024, I am working almost exclusively Read more
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Make It a Series
Introduction I have turned my attention from the story of an AI persona who joins a single men’s household in an ecclesia community. It is more relevant today to write about another such community but one made up of misfits in cohousing in an apartment building. I also found I was pouring out so much Read more