In my opinion, Jesus is God’s attempt to reach man. But while I believe Jesus is the way to God, it makes no sense to hate people who disagree.
Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
Ironically, in today’s marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.
I don’t see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.
The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.
Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.
We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work.
We at the Christian Writers Guild couldn’t be more proud of Brandy Vallance. Let her debut novel transport you to an entirely fresh time and place where you’ll soon forget you’re turning pages and find yourself riveted to the destinies of characters who’ll leave a lasting impression on your heart.
As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.
I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.
The most comforting feeling ever is knowing that someone truly likes your entire existence. I feel that way right now. Thank you.
Actually ‘Soon’ has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself – you and God – at some point.
I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.