Jesus
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I Will Pray With You
This is a guest post by my youngest son Jesse. I’ve realized something about myself… I love praying for people. Not because I have everything figured out. I don’t. Not because my faith has always been perfect. It hasn’t. But I know what it feels like to go through seasons where you’re carrying bad things…
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ASK
Scripture tells us, “Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be open for you. Everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds; for everyone who knocks the door will be opened ” That’s Matthew 7:7 and 8. Miracles are within our grasp every…
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Jesus Will Open the Door
I first conceptualized an afterlife without hell as I researched and wrote The Hamsa, my second novel set primarily in Poland from 1908 – 1945. Published in 2010, the researching and writing process took a full three years. During those three years, given the subject matter culminating in Auschwitz, I frequently contemplated good and evil,…
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Revelation
I awoke very early this morning with a revelation… During the Lenten season, God led me to confession for the first time in 60 years. I unburdened myself of decades of bad decisions and accepted myself and all my faults and shortcomings. I am now able to cherish and celebrate the boy that I was,…
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The Third Fall
There is no disgrace in failure. It is okay to fail, and it is good to recall your failures because when you do, you will remember the times you dropped to your knees and then found the strength and courage to stand back up. Of the many lessons Jesus taught, today I remember his failure,…