By:
On:
In: Book Reviews, Faith

Excerpt from my testimony on the Helping Hands’ Press Blog. First if you need to catch up and read the first three parts just click and read. Tweets you can share on Twitter are at the end. A concussion stole @andreajgraham’s story and launched the Journey to the #WebSurfer Series as it is today. Journey to #WebSurfer PT2: How God challenged @andreajgraham to rely more on God in the writing process. Journey to #WebSurfer PT3: Eye-opening lessons from an unexpected, challenging answer to #sci-fi author @andreajgraham’s prayer. After God challenged me to write about a character I feared would be too controversial, I wrote aRead More →

By:
On:
In: Bible and Theology, God's Character, Grace, Post-Modernism

A revised reprint of a timeless article from May 11, 2007.   The Church is a family, not a daycare. Yet many churches say “when you’re here, you’re family” à la the Olive Garden. While we focus on numbers like a business, some in our churches today have been raised in church their whole lives and still have little understanding of the gospel. The surrounding culture says, “there are no absolute boundaries of right and wrong. We each get to create our own, and all of our contradicting boundaries are valid as long as we’re each doing what is right for us.” How should we respond in theRead More →

By:
On:
In: Book Reviews, Faith, Notices

Part One: a concussion launched me on the journey to the Web Surfer Series as it is today. Part Two: How God taught me to rely more on God in the writing process on the journey to the Web Surfer Series. [tweetthis remove_twitter_handles=”true” remove_url=”true” remove_hidden_hashtags=”true” remove_hidden_urls=”true”]Part Three: Eye-opening lessons from an unexpected, challenging answer to a sci-fi author’s prayer. ow.ly/Qiq5A [/tweetthis] Preview of Part Three: The character God challenged me to write about, Elisha Micah Gabrielson, was born with gender-ambiguous genitalia. In his day, the turn of the 22nd century, such children’s original birth certificates always give their gender as “intersexed” and the only treatmentRead More →

By:
On:
In: Bible and Theology, Forgiveness, God's love, Grace, Prayer and Devotions

The most dangerous anger I’ve witnessed lately is righteous indignation. The reason it is dangerous is humans aren’t righteous. We are most prone to do ugly things to each other when we’re angry and either it is justified or we believe we are justified. [tweetthis remove_twitter_handles=”true” remove_hidden_hashtags=”true” remove_hidden_urls=”true”]Most dangerous anger: righteous indignation. We’re most prone to do ugly things when justifiably angry.[/tweetthis] It saddens me that so many grown adults behave as if they honestly believe “I am angry, and you were wrong, therefore you are no longer worthy of my respect, kindness, or being treated fairly, and I have every right to lash outRead More →

By:
On:
In: Prayer and Devotions

As I said in my testimony last month, a concussion launched me on the journey to the Web Surfer Series as it is today. One of the positive side effects was it taught me to rely more on God in the writing process. I’d made the main character fully man and fully AI and cyberspace’s king. Alexander McGregor is one young man who thinks both with his natural human mind, Alex, and with his artificial intelligence, King Sander, who is housed in his supercomputer. His AI is misused to operate Web Surfer brand machines in working conditions that threaten to shred his soul and fracture himRead More →