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Made for Such a Time

By Dan Balowon April 1, 2021
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Today is a difficult day for Christians as we remember the final full day of Christ’s life before his crucifixion. Deep down, I wish Jesus didn’t have to go through all he did.

Reading through the Gospels, it is clear the events of this week were part of a plan and purpose for Jesus living a human existence. He had a unique and stated purpose, even coming right out and saying it numerous times (Matthew 18; Luke 19; etc.).

At the end, which we remember this week, some of his final words on the cross were “It is finished” or “It is accomplished.” Some translate the Greek word as “consummated,” which in business terms means a debt has been fully paid. These are not only words. They are a proclamation by God of a fulfilled prophecy and purpose.

Jesus was born for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter.

I don’t have any book-author tips today or suggestions for getting published, but something came to mind the other day that I have been pondering. Maybe it will be an encouragement for you.

The reason Christian authors have been writing books over the centuries is to build up the Christian “flock” for times like these around the world. It doesn’t matter what part of the Christian experience you are writing about; your purpose is to build up the spiritual muscle and armor of believers, so when we are called on to live under duress, we show ourselves strong and courageous.

For centuries those involved in the writing and publishing of Christian-themed materials have been working for such a time as this.

  • Bibles published to infuse the Word of God into Christians worldwide making the Church a courageous spiritual army of disciples.
  • Curriculum and Bible studies published to connect the truth of Scripture with one’s heart and mind, building disciple-muscles for young and old.
  • Devotionals making God real every day, reminding us of things we forget.
  • Nonfiction books on topics from spiritual growth to stewardship and from following to leading have applied God’s principles, so we know how to keep things on track biblically.
  • Biographies of genuine believers, so we can tell the difference between real and counterfeit.
  • Historical perspectives, so we don’t make the same mistakes again and can see other things coming from a long way off.
  • Fiction with characters showing how they respond to life’s twists and turns and finding where true help comes from.
  • Gritty fiction to illustrate what happens when life goes awry and we can then journey along with a character who finds their way back.
  • Fantasy and futuristic fiction that challenges the mind to think beyond time and space that limits our view of God to this time and only to what we can see.
  • Children’s books that set young feet on solid ground and plant seeds of God’s love and truth in young minds to yield fruit later on.

Every single Christian book past, present, and future is building the body of Christ to stand strong against the forces of the one who prowls about devouring.

Past, present, and future Christian authors and publishers are “body builders,” and hell’s gates will not hold up against them.

So, bring it on. God made us for such a time as this.

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Category: Book Business, Inspiration, Theology

Every Book Doesn’t Need to Shake the Earth

By Dan Balowon March 11, 2021
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If you look at any list of best-selling books expecting every one of them to be a literary masterpiece, you are probably setting yourself up for disappointment. “Are you kidding me? A book about famous racehorses of the 20th century is a bestseller? People bought that instead of my 1,200-page book on linguistic anomalies in Hebrew and Greek biblical texts? For Pete’s sake, half of the horse book …

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Category: Encouragement, Inspiration, Pitching, Platform

Coming Full Circle

By Guest Bloggeron February 17, 2021
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by Kim Vogel Sawyer

Today's guest blog is from Kim Vogel Sawyer a best-selling author whose books have topped the sales charts and won awards since 2005, when she left her elementary school teaching job to write full time. Her books have won the Carol Award, the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence, and the Inspirational Readers Choice Award. Her stories are designed to offer hope and …

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Category: Career, Get Published, Guest Post, Inspiration, TamelaTag: Career, Get Published, Inspiration

Christmas for Writers

By Bob Hostetleron December 23, 2020
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It’s almost here! We are on the threshold of the annual celebration of Jesus’ birth! As I think someone has said (and sung) before, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. And, though I know you still have things to wrap and things to bake and things to bedazzle, you must be reading these lines for some strange reason, right? So I want to wish everyone out there in Writerworld (which is slightly …

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Category: InspirationTag: Christmas

Can Silence Make You a Better Writer?

By Bob Hostetleron September 2, 2020
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Decades ago, when I was barely out of diapers, I started taking annual (sometimes twice-yearly) prayer retreats at the Abbey of Gethsemani in the hills of central Kentucky. It’s a silent Trappist monastery, and it’s been a boon to my prayer life. A lifeline, sometimes. It’s also been a boon to my writing life. Once I’ve checked in and been immersed in and surrounded by silence (interrupted only by …

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Category: Inspiration, The Writing Life, Theology

Instrument (A Writer’s Prayer)

By Bob Hostetleron May 13, 2020
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God, from ancient days to modern times, you have chosen human language to communicate with men and women; in fact, you are a writer yourself, having written your commandments in tablets of stone, my name in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and your Word in my heart. You have also given me a love for the written word, and have indebted me to the writings of many gifted men and women. So, while I am a …

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Category: Inspiration, The Writing Life, Theology

Quotes from Recent Books I’ve Read

By Bob Hostetleron May 6, 2020
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Prolific western writer Louis L’Amour wrote in his autobiographical Education of a Wandering Man, “A writer’s brain is like a magician’s hat.  If you’re going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in first.” That’s why reading well and widely is crucial to a writer’s development. You don’t have to read everything, of course; just everything I’ve written. I’m only half joking. But in …

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Is It Ready to Submit?

By Bob Hostetleron April 29, 2020
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You’ve poured out your soul. You’ve written your heart out. You’ve struggled and sweated over how to say what you want to say. You’ve paced the floor, clicked your heels, and now you think maybe it’s ready to submit. But how do you know? Good question. “Good question” usually means you’re going to get a lousy answer. I won’t promise you anything different now, because it can be so hard to know if …

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Category: Book Proposals, Editing, Grammar, Inspiration, Pitching

A Writer’s Prayer of Confession

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon March 4, 2020
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Most holy and merciful Father: I confess that I have sinned by my own fault in thought, word, and deed; by what I have done, and by what I have left undone. I have not loved you with my whole heart, soul, mind, and strength. I have let the idea of being a writer distract me from devotion to you. I have made myself busier with words than with your Word. I have been consumed by my writing plans and …

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Category: Encouragement, Faith, Inspiration, Theology

A Writer’s Evening Prayer

By Bob Hostetleron October 16, 2019
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A Writer’s Evening Prayer (based on “An Evening Prayer” by C. Maud Battersby) __________   If I have failed to heed your voice today, If I have driven any of your thoughts away, If I have written my own willful way: Dear Lord, forgive!   If I have written idle words or vain, If I have worked for earthly gain, If my words should bring one soul pain, Dear Lord, forgive!   If I …

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Category: Encouragement, Inspiration, The Writing Life, Theology
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