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In Your Time (A Writer’s Prayer)

By Bob Hostetleron June 30, 2021
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Heavenly Father, 
you make everything beautiful in your time (Ecclesiastes 3:11).

I submit to your timing. 
I await your timing. 
I desire what you will, 
as you will, 
when you will. 

That goes for my writing, too.

I long to touch lives with my words … in your time.
I want to write passionately, effectively, impactfully … in your time.
I yearn to think and communicate clearly and sharply … in your time.
I pray to craft artful, beautiful words, sentences, and passages … in your time.
I ask for publication, for contracts, for endorsements, for readers, and for life-changing influence … in your time,

In Jesus’ name, amen.

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Category: Encouragement, Faith, Inspiration, Theology

31 Ways to Pray for Your Writing

By Bob Hostetleron June 17, 2021
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I consider prayer to be an important—indispensable, even—part of the writing life. I’ve written about that here, in fact. I’ve also written and published 31-day prayer resources (here and here). So, I thought I’d offer here a 31-day prayer plan specifically for you and your writing. See how nice I am? (Pray for me.) 1          “Alpha and Omega, First …

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Category: Encouragement, Inspiration, The Writing Life, Theology

Success

By Dan Balowon May 5, 2021
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I am using the 20th year remembrance of the death of Clifton Hillegass as inspiration to make a larger point about the direction an author’s life can take. Clifton (pictured above is his statue in Kearney, NE) was the creator of CliffsNotes and passed away in Lincoln, Nebraska, at the age of 83 on May 5, 2001. I assume most of you reading this post are aware of CliffsNotes and also of how much …

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Category: Creativity, The Writing Life, TheologyTag: Success

When the Outlook Is Bleak

By Steve Laubeon April 26, 2021
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by Steve Laube

In the constant ebb and flow of this industry we have authors celebrating and authors in tears. Ask any agent and you will hear the same. For every author excited about their new contract there is another experiencing bitter disappointment.

And I wish I could fix it.

To hear the anguish is difficult, but to be the one who delivers the bad news is heart-wrenching. Why is it …

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Category: Book Business, Career, TheologyTag: Career, Encouragement, Outlook

Read “A Christian Reading Manifesto”

By Steve Laubeon April 5, 2021
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Last year David Steele created this document: “A Christian Reading Manifesto.” It bears review for those of us in the writing of books and those who believe in the power of reading said books. Given the efforts of our secular culture to redefine words and their meaning, his statement “Reading Forces Us to Reckon With Words” resonated. I’ve often said, “People of …

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Category: Book Review, Career, Christian, Theology

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 …

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Identity Publishing

By Dan Balowon March 3, 2021
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A powerful social force in the world today is called “identity politics” (IP). Simply, it divides people by race, gender, economic class, and numerous other factors, creating a large number of micro-groups, each supporting political agendas important to the group. For Christians and the church, commanded by God to live in unity with other believers and be peacemakers with everyone else, IP …

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Category: The Publishing Life, The Writing Life, Theology, Trends

God at Auschwitz

By Dan Balowon February 18, 2021
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Back in 2019, I had the opportunity to travel to a conference in Poland and afterward tour Auschwitz/Birkenau, one of the more infamous Nazi death camps. More than a million people were murdered there at the hands of the SS from 1942 until its liberation by the Russian army in early 1945. The picture I took above shows still-visible fingernail scratches on the wall inside the lone remaining gas …

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Category: Creativity, The Publishing Life, The Writing Life, Theology

A Writer’s Keyboard Prayer

By Bob Hostetleron February 11, 2021
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Lord God, my Father, my King, my Sovereign, my All, I RETURN to you with all my heart, I ENTER your presence with gratitude and joy, I ESCAPE into your arms and nestle in the shadow of your wing. DELETE the stain of worldly strife and wicked desires. SHIFT my attention and priorities to reflect your wishes. COMMAND me and bend me to your will. CONTROL my impulse, intellect, and intentions until I …

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Category: The Writing Life, Theology

God’s Autonomous Zone

By Dan Balowon February 10, 2021
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In the late 17th century, Catholic theologian and scientist Blaise Pascal authored a book titled Pensées. In it, he wrote: What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he …

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Category: Creativity, The Writing Life, Theology, Trends
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