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Revelation to Allegory: The Heart Behind Wrath of the Mountain King

BY: O.R. Sykora Where does a story come from, and how do its roots grow? There may be as many answers to this question as there are writers in the world. Perhaps there’s a different answer for every story ever written. Years ago, while the plot for Son of the Mountain...

Earl’s Ultimatum Author Interview Questions: Faith and Love

In the pages of The Earl's Ultimatum we meet Andrew Beaumont, caught between duty and conscience as his father’s ultimatum forces him toward marriage, and Lucy Grant, who finds quiet strength through prayer and the symbolic Dara Knot. Their journey unfolds against the...

JoJo’s Transformation: A Free Prequel to Under the August Sky

Before John Johanssen ever set foot in Emerald Valley as the man readers meet in Under the August Sky, he was a shy, insecure young adult everyone had once called "Fat JoJo," and who was carrying four years of high school humiliation onto a college campus three...

Holy Week: Monday

John’s gospel, 12:1-11, points out three interesting things that help to clue us in to Who Jesus is and what is about to happen. First, the gospel tells us that six days before the Passover, Jesus was in Bethany with Lazarus, Mary and Martha. It’s interesting that just a week before His own resurrection, Jesus visits the man who had already been brought back from the dead. Perhaps Jesus was trying to give His followers a reminder that being laid in the tomb isn’t necessarily the end.

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Holy Week: Palm Sunday

It’s the first day of Holy Week. Today Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey to shouts of hosannas. The world loves Him–both those who believe He is merely a talented prophet or healer and those who believe He is the Messiah. Regardless of the category into which the people fall, it will be only days before they are all clamouring for his death. Think about that for a moment. He is followed and adored just mere days before those same shouts morph into cries of, “Crucify Him!”

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Jesus, Meek and Humble of Heart, Part 9

In this final day of our journey towards a greater humility, we ask Jesus to give us the grace to desire that others are considered more than we. As John the Baptist, we must seek the Lord first and allow Him to increase while we decrease.

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Jesus, Meek and Humble of Heart, Part 8

The increasing popularity of social media has put focus on just how deep our “I trouble” goes. We’re constantly photographing ourselves and then checking to see how many people approve of the post—aka approve/like us.

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