Into the Fire
Passionate thoughts about the world of writing and the Power of God
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I’ll be honest here. I wasn’t going to write an opinion on Joel Rosenberg’s The Last Jihad, published by Tyndale Fiction with a copyright date of 2002 even though the novel was written somewhat prophetically before the 9/11/2001 acts of terrorism. With such astounding endorsements from Rush Limbaugh, Vince Flynn, and Sean Hannity, how…
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I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel – which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we…
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Issa Demands Page One Retraction from NY Times Henry J. Reske (Newsmax) Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., is demanding The New York Times issue a front-page retraction for an article “riddled with factual errors” that looked at the congressman’s personal business dealings and the alleged overlap between them and his work in Congress. …
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As opposed to calling all romantics. It’s true. I’m currently searching for the right audience for my novels. My love stories are heavy on the romance, deeply character driven, and they absolutely don’t cater to the “light” or “fluff” romance reading crowd. A male author friend of mine who shall remain nameless for…
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. . . isn’t necessarily what or who you really are or ever will be. That’s hard to hear, isn’t it? It is for me—or I should say it was for me. When my mind threw the desired images into the flash frames of my imagination and the years edged upward and the dreams…
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Attitudes are funny things. We can cop a ‘tude about anything, but one way to accelerate bad, skeptical, or doubting attitudes is to over-hype some kind of entertainment. We’ve all heard the opinion about publicity. Even if it’s bad, it’ll generate curiosity and bring viewers—and readers—to investigate the claims and to experience it…
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Do you as a reader and even as a writer approach Christian Fiction differently from General Market fare that you know won’t contain many if any spiritual references in the story? Do you have a built-in reservation that the Christian novel you’re about to read might contain some cheesy Christian-ese, stereotyped church people, a…
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Those of us who are avid readers of Christian Fiction will admit to having experienced that “canned” testimony moment in some of its offerings. Or the tossed in “prayers” at critical crises. Or the “preachy” explanations of Christian-ese activities and dialogue. Or the goodie-two-shoes characters or even worse the holier-than-thou characters. So. Is…
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"Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail. "Hear me, you who know what is right, you people…
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WASHINGTON — A White House photographer was allowed to take and widely distribute a photo from the ceremony Tuesday for the return of the remains of 30 American troops killed in a weekend helicopter crash in Afghanistan — despite the Pentagon's claim that any public depiction of the scene would violate the wishes of…
Into the Fire 