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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...

Faith, Scars, and the Road Home: An Author Interview

What do you do when the people who were supposed to show you God were the ones who hurt you most? That's the question that beats at the heart of Heather Tekavec's debut historical fiction novel, Good Road to Follow, and that hearbeat is the reason readers will...

Jesus, Meek and Humble of Heart, Part 6

Fear of being humiliated is often easy to admit. After all, we all can relate to not wanting to be made the fool. But admitting we desire to be preferred to others is more difficult. The very feeling itself is an admission that we also desire for someone else to be “less preferred”

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Jesus, Meek and Humble of Heart, Part 5

From the game-winning score to the top of the corporate ladder, we love it when we’re praised for our achievements. On the flip-side, it’s not so great to have to be reprimanded for mistakes. But, if we think on it logically, does praise make the achievement greater than if no one acknowledged it?

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Jesus, Meek and Humble of Heart, Part 4

Have you noticed a pattern in the things from which we need to be delivered in order to become more humble? The desires all are statuses that move us to the head of the table. The fears all are demotions that remove us from the spotlight and cast us into the fringes of society.

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Jesus, Meek and Humble of Heart, Part 3

We all want to be loved. It’s part of our DNA and can’t be denied, but sometimes we crave the love of others so much it becomes a constant preoccupation, and the fear of not being loved becomes a chronic source of stress. If we’re constantly worried about whether our actions will cause people to despise us, or whether we’re lovable enough not to be rejected, we sink into that “I” trouble we touched on in Part 1.

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Jesus, Meek and Humble of Heart, Part 2

It’s a wonderful feeling when people are lifting us onto a pedestal, and it’s difficult sometimes not to want the adulation. Likewise, it’s terrible—often debilitating—when people are talking about us behind our backs, especially if what’s being said is slanderous. It only makes sense that we would desire one and fear the other.

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Jesus, Meek and Humble of Heart, Part 1

As we journey towards Easter this year, let’s take a moment to consider the virtue of humility. I think it’s one of the most misunderstood concepts. Contrary to what some think, humility is not “the opposite of pride”. Nor is it having (or exercising) low self-esteem or self-degradation. Simply put, humility is

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