30 March 2025
Do you believe that writers can subtly influence readers through their stories? If so, how can they do this without being didactic? Without being too preachy, how can writers infuse their stories with life-affirming messages showcasing virtues like love and charity? And why would writers want to showcase these virtues in the first place? Reading […]
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26 March 2025
Human love, although truly wonderful, can be fickle. However much we are loved by family members and friends, it is a rare love indeed that is agape love, a love that accepts us for who we are, warts and all: an unconditional love. If we are privileged enough to experience love like this on this […]
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23 March 2025
Some Christian authors I have spoken to feel a heavy weight of responsibility to reflect Christ in their storytelling. With this in mind, they pray earnestly for guidance from the Holy Spirit before they even contemplate writing a fictional book. Some tell me they wait a long time before they get the inspiration to write; […]
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19 March 2025
Small acts of kindness can make a big difference to someone’s day. Sometimes, we don’t even realise how big a difference. I have been the recipient of many acts of kindness. Realising how much better I feel when someone else has been kind to me, I have tried, in turn, to share a little bit […]
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16 March 2025
How tempting it is to beat yourself up as a writer. In the challenging and sometimes arduous task of creating a book, doubts can assail you: ‘Am I writing anything that people will want to read?’; ‘Will my readers be bored?’; ‘Will I ever even finish this chapter, let alone a whole novel?’ ‘And if […]
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12 March 2025
Who can begin to understand the depths of God’s grace? Reflecting on the meaning of the word itself – undeserved favour – makes His grace even more difficult to understand. I believe that it is easy to take God’s grace for granted unless we reflect on the enormity of our sins. Sin, of course, is […]
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9 March 2025
What inspiring stories there are in the Bible of men and women who trusted God so completely that they were prepared to give up everything: their homes, their families, their comforts and even their future prospects. Some of my favourite Old Testament stories of faith being demonstrated in action are those of Joseph, Ruth and […]
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5 March 2025
If, like me, you take great care in planning your weeks, months, and even the years ahead, you are sure to have experienced many disappointments. Life can send us so many curved balls—unexpected events, broken relationships, people letting us down, and our plans going awry. How often do our lives go exactly the way we […]
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25 August 2024
As a Christian who belongs to a Bible study group and many WhatsApp groups, I often hear about extraordinary miracles which happen to people close to me: people being healed from diseases by the power of prayer, others finding jobs after long, seemingly fruitless searches, people miraculously escaping from accidents. I love to read about […]
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