Never forget this is a celebration of INDEPENDENCE, of ONE NATION UNDER GOD, of THE LIVES GIVEN TO INSURE YOUR FREEDOM.  NEVER FORGET WHAT FREEDOM IS AND THE LORD GOD WHO PROVIDED IT.  Father, please don't give up on us yet. Please forgive us for our many sins and let…

                          Drift by L. T. Ryan and Brian Shea is Book 1 in the Rachel Hatch Series.  Reluctantly retired from the army because of an injury to her right arm even though re-qualifying in every test, Rachel Hatch is forced to come home…

                                             My oldest son was born on her birthday. Best friends since second grade with years of separation as lives do and reunions . . . Happy Birthday, Deb. May the Lord bless and…

                The big 50! Number one son of two. A joy, hard worker, one who perseveres, many friends, keeper of family, father, brother, grandson. Love you precious son Donovan. Happy Birthday!   May the Lord continue to bless you, grant you the desires of your heart as you…

                The Mischief Thief is Johnnie Alexander's latest release (May 2020).  Okay, honestly, I have to preface this with having spent 30+ years in horse racing at various racetracks in Washington state and California (granted: I've never been to a Florida racetrack where this story takes place), I'm…

    They had a bunch of great hits. This was only one of them. Most people know that their original name was Chicago Transit Authority, but the real Transit Authority were miffed that they'd taken "their" name, so it was shortened to just "Chicago".    Father, thank you for music and the giftings you've…

                                     The Alamo by Mark Dawson is Book 11 in the John Milton Series.  It's unclear exactly why John decided to visit New York, but he's rented a tiny apartment in the defunct Coney Island area where there…

  For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For,                  "All men are like grass,                     and all their glory is like the flowers of…

                                               Very successful and bestselling British author Mark J. Dawson has inadvertently become one of my favorite authors even though I have disagreed with certain characterizations and inferences in a couple of his…

Originally posted as "Why Christian Fiction Matters" on 12/02/2012. (Some additions to the original post.) If you read a steady diet of general market fiction, you're probably familiar with generous portions of worldly philosophies associated with secular humanism which include erotic/graphic examples of those philosophies. We know there are Christian authors who write for the…