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Voices of Experience: Why Mature Christian Writers Are Important

By Dan Balowon May 25, 2023
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This is the sixth and final in a series of posts on various types of writers worth giving our attention to. Those with military and missionary service in their backgrounds, young writers, creative writers, and humble writers can each contribute to the conversation within the church as they each have valuable perspectives.

Many writers are a combination of these types, and today’s focus can also be mixed with a couple of others. But in the Christian publishing world, mature believers are important in every category.

Often, books that might have weak or even error-laden theology can come from writers who have not been Christ-followers for very long. The sanctifying process of renewing their minds after a lifetime of self-absorbed living is still in its early stages.

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will (Romans 12:1-2, NIV).

Those who come to Christ and want to write a book about their salvation have good reason to be excited, but maybe they need to wait for a long period to gain some perspective.

Why are mature-faith Christian writers important?

They have more stories. Longer life means more experiences, acquaintances, time spent in study and worship, a greater perspective on the various seasons of life, an appreciation of the brevity of this life, and more refiner’s fire moments.

They know God is not 100% predictable. There are things we know for absolute certainty and things we don’t know:

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8-9, NIV).

It’s one thing to memorize this verse, but another thing entirely to know the extent it is true.

They truly understand Emmanuel. “God with us” is a warm and kindly concept, but only mature believers truly grasp the implications of Jehovah taking up residence with us in Jesus and living in us in the Holy Spirit:

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble (Psalm 46:1, NIV).

They understand God’s faithfulness. It is one thing to be convinced of God’s faithfulness when He’s been proven faithful every day for three years. Those 1,000+ faithful moments build a believer’s love and appreciation for God. But when God shows His faithfulness for 30 years, those 10,000 proofs pile up like stones of remembrance into an unshakable faith. The confidence exhibited is inspiring.

Mature believers are not exempt from all of publishing’s “requirements” (writing quality, platform, commitment to the craft, and more); but certainly, they have the wisdom, insight, and content to help other people.

For the other posts in this series:

Why military writers are important

Why missionary writers are important

Why young writers are important

Why creative writers are important

Why humble writers are important

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Category: The Writing Life, Theology

The Never-Ending Stories

By Dan Balowon May 17, 2023
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One of the reasons Christian authors can run out of things to write about is they write only from personal experience. Personal experiences are finite, and you are bound to run out of material. Your personal experiences give you one thing that can be used to write a hundred books: a perspective on God and living the Christian life, not only the actual things to write about. So, Christian writers …

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Category: Book Business, The Writing Life, Theology

A Maundy Thursday Writer’s Prayer

By Bob Hostetleron April 6, 2023
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Lord, at your last meal with your closest friends and followers, you wrapped the servant’s towel around your waist, and washed your disciples’ feet. And though Peter objected at first, he submitted, saying, “Then, Lord … not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!” (John 13:9, NIV). Like Peter, Lord, I shudder to submit myself and my writing to your cleansing work. But I know I …

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Category: Encouragement, Faith, Inspiration, Theology

A Holy Week Meditation

By Steve Laubeon April 3, 2023
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With this being the week before Easter, I thought I’d take a moment to explore a thought which can be used for contemplation. When studying Luke 18:1-8 and the parable of the persistent widow, I came across an interesting thought. For the unbeliever, prayers are understood to be a transaction. We give, we get; or through begging, bribery, cajoling, intimidation, or even persistence, we feel …

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Category: Personal, Theology

Love As a Christian Author

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon March 2, 2023
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As Christian authors, we have many opportunities to put into practice the list of the attributes of love that St. Paul listed in 1 Corinthians 13: Love: Is patient: After submitting proposals, we do ourselves, our agents, and editors a favor by exercising patience. In Submissions Land, editors may feel as though a month is five minutes. Agents might say a month is a day. For an author, a month …

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Category: Encouragement, Inspiration, The Writing Life, Theology

365 Days to Sing God’s Praise

By Dan Balowon January 1, 2023
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Happy New Year! Today marks the 250th anniversary of the first performance of “Amazing Grace,” written by pastor John Newton to accompany his sermon. It was originally written as poetry. The familiar melody was added in 1835, though the words were sung to various traditional tunes before that. At the time, Newton was parish priest of the Anglican church in Olney, Buckinghamshire, England. (If you …

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Category: Inspiration, Personal, Theology

Christmas Questions

By Dan Balowon December 22, 2022
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When Christian singer/songwriters Mark Lowry and Buddy Greene collaborated on the modern Christmas classic “Mary Did You Know?” they hit on some meaningful themes that inspire millions each year. Honestly, I think they were a little presumptuous asking a pregnant lady or mother of a young child so many questions, but at least the song doesn’t wait for her responses! She had enough on her mind. I …

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Category: Creativity, Theology

Incarnational Writing

By Bob Hostetleron December 21, 2022
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It’s that holy time of year when followers of Jesus around the world contemplate and celebrate the truth of the Incarnation, the miraculous, mind-boggling moment when the Son of God, the Eternal Word, “became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (John 1:14, NIV). So, first, I wish the readers of this blog a merry and holy Christmas. Second, I’d like to opine for a few moments on the …

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Category: The Writing Life, Theology

4 Ways to Be a Grateful Writer

By Bob Hostetleron November 16, 2022
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How great is it being a writer? Sure, there are downsides. Rejection. Revision. Poverty. And so on. But all in all, writers are a privileged bunch. We get to write! We get to “live and move and have our being” among words, sentences, magazines, blogs, and books. We know how to use semicolons and apostrophes (well; some of us’ do anyway). We sometimes even experience the joy of knowing someone has …

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Just Write the Opposite

By Dan Balowon October 27, 2022
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From season five of the television sitcom Seinfeld, a revealing quote from the character George Costanza: “It all became very clear to me sitting out there today, that every decision I’ve ever made, in my entire life, has been wrong. My life is the complete opposite of everything I want it to be. Every instinct I have, in every aspect of life, be it something to wear, something to …

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Category: The Writing Life, Theology
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