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Steve Laube, president and founder of The Steve Laube Agency, a veteran of the bookselling industry with 40 years of experience.
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Fun Fridays – April 25, 2025

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Today’s video is a stunning rendition of the song “Bridge Over Troubled Water.”

Performed for the National American Choral Directors Association Conference two weeks ago, it features a group of high school singers and an amazing director.

The audience is filled with choral directors who cheer when something extraordinary is heard. The arrangement is sheer genius, and the performance is beyond words, as the two-minute standing ovation attests.

Turn up the volume and let the sound wash over you.

HT: Trissina Kear

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What Is the Best Way to Submit My Self-Published Book?

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We are asked this question so frequently that I have to re-run this post on a regular basis! Since it has become so easy to self-publish, many authors are creating their own books, both in ebook and print form. Later, those authors are not quite sure what to do if/when they want to approach an agent. Or pitch to an editor at a conference. Should they just send a copy of the book with a letter? Or …

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Gray Saturday

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I wrote this many years ago and post it every Easter weekend as a reminder. May it speak to you in some small way. Gray Saturday by Steve Laube Holy weekend is such a study in contrasts. Friday is dark. Somber. Frightening in its hopelessness and pain. I do not like Dark Fridays. The nails bury themselves deep into my soul. They become a singular stake through the heart of this sinner. Piercing. …

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Dark Friday

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I wrote this piece several years ago and thought it appropriate to post every year on Dark Friday. Take Me, Break Me (a prayer) by Steve Laube Take my eyes, Lord. Strike me blind. * * * Then heal me, Lord, That I may see with Your eyes.   Take my hands, Lord. Crush every bone. * * * Then heal me, Lord, That I may touch with Your tenderness.   Take my ears, Lord. Deafen me. * * * Then …

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Binge Watching versus Binge Reading

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A lot of people take advantage of their entertainment streaming services to binge-watch multiple episodes of a particular TV show in one sitting. How long would it take to spend the same amount of time reading … the Bible? A few years ago, Crossway.org published an article titled “You Have More Time for Bible Reading Than You Think.” The results are rather interesting. (The chart …

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Houston, We Have a Problem

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This week marks the 55th anniversary of the launch of the infamous Apollo 13 mission to the moon (April 11, 1970). Two days after the launch, an oxygen tank exploded, jeopardizing the lives of the astronauts and scrapping the mission. Their ingenious solutions and subsequent safe return on April 17 were later portrayed in the award-winning 1995 film Apollo 13. I couldn’t help but think that the …

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Expand Our Storytelling

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Dan’s post last week, “Foreign Intelligence,” got me thinking. There are times when I wonder if I need to change my glasses—metaphorically—to correct, or even remove, a myopic vision that only sees or cares about the first-world problems surrounding me. Of course, the problems in my life, city, state, region, and country are of great importance. But they are not the only ones. …

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