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Introducing… Audiobooks!

Now available everywhere audiobooks are sold!

With the growing popularity of audiobooks, I recently decided to wade into those waters and had “The Author of Life” made into an audiobook by the great people at Findaway Voices!

After researching several options for how to create and publish audiobooks, I decided to use Findaway’s “Voices Share” program, which halves the production costs of the audiobook for which the narrator(s) are compensated by receiving half the audiobook royalties, though th...

Watching and Waiting

Like many other men, I like to build things, fix things, tinker with things, make things better (insert Tim Allen grunting sounds here!). I suppose it’s part of our male-nature such that when there’s a problem, we men feel compelled to fix it. In my long career as a software developer, there’s seldom a problem that cannot be fixed in one way or another, even if that means throwing all the code out the window and starting from scratch. In fact, sometimes that’s the best solution: take the les...

Lessons from Bob and Larry – Part 2

This is Part 2 of Lessons from Bob and Larry

A funny thing happens when some people become Christians. We get all “on fire for God” and begin dreaming up all these great things we want to do for Him and His Kingdom. After all, the world is lost and He commands us to go reach them, right? That means we’re to go out and do something and do it NOW. For some that means door-to-door preaching, teaching, bake-sales, volunteering, missions-work, and on and on.

In church, we’re often taught about spiri...

Lessons from Bob and Larry

Have you stopped and asked yourself — really asked yourself — what in the world is God up to when everything is going off the rails? Where is He? Why is He silent? Why doesn’t He intervene?

Though this post has been in my backlog for six months (incessantly nagging at me!), it’s even more important and relatable now with the ongoing war in Ukraine. Where is God? He sees exactly what’s happening there and yet He doesn’t seem to be all that concerned.

Biblically, we know He does indeed care for t...

It Wasn’t For Nothing

This morning after I had finished my daily YouVersion readings, I was scrolling through Instagram a little and stumbled across a post that caught my attention.

There on the screen was a middle-aged man in a gray tee-shirt lying on his back in his driveway, blankly staring up at the sky. He’s not hurt — at least not physically — but he appears to be all but spent. Worn out. Defeated. Exhausted. Overwhelmed by whatever was happening such that all he could do was lay down on the hard cement next to...

The Saint, the Surfer, and the CEO

After not blogging for months (or longer!), this will be the second post within the last few days! I suppose that’s what happens when juggling work, writing, and just life-in-general. I’ve found that reading a couple of books outside of whatever topic I’m entrenched in between writing projects (and just along the way) is a good way to refocus, re-energize, and of course, relax.

“The Saint, the Surfer, and the CEO” is a book I stumbled across several months ago, likely because it had “surfer” in ...

Chains of Darkness … Released!

Now available on the Kindle and in paperback!

My latest novel (“Chains of Darkness”) is ready for Kindle download at Amazon.com! The book is also available in paperback format.

“Chains of Darkness” is the third book in “The Days of Noah Series.” The series consists of three books so far (in order): “Rise of the Anshar“, “Fountains of the Deep“, and “Chains of Darkness“.

The synopsis for the book is:

The Great Flood has begun, and every living creature which had the breath of life has died. All ...

Chains of Darkness … Released!

Now available on the Kindle and in paperback!

My latest novel (“Chains of Darkness”) is ready for Kindle download at Amazon.com! The book is also available in paperback format.

“Chains of Darkness” is the third book in “The Days of Noah Series.” The series consists of three books so far (in order): “Rise of the Anshar“, “Fountains of the Deep“, and “Chains of Darkness“.

The synopsis for the book is:

The Great Flood has begun, and every living creature which had the breath of life has died. All ...

Two New Books for 2021!

Now available on the Kindle and in paperback!

My latest non-fiction work (“A Tale of Two Women”) is ready for Kindle download at Amazon.com! The book is also available in paperback format.

The synopsis for the book is:

A Tale of Two Women: Sarah and Hagar. One is famous in many circles of faith, while the other is relatively unknown. This is the story of Abraham, his wife Sarah, and her servant Hagar, as well as the two sons that they bore to him, one who’s later referred to as the “son of the ...

Recapturing Joy in Difficult Times

With the close of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, people have many different feelings about the year ahead. We’re not merely wondering if it’ll be good or bad, but if it be relatively normal and uneventful after the last nine months (thankfully we skipped the murder-hornets!). Imagine that – most of us are just hoping for “normal” now! And while 2020 began with its typical share of hopes and expectations that most new years bring, very few expected it to turn out the way it did, both with th...