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Jeremy Camp and Same Power

Courage, America. We will not be overtaken, we will not be overcome.



He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore--Isaiah 2:4

Joan Acocella and The Elmore Leonard Story

Check out this piece on my hometown hero, Elmore Leonard, from the New York Review of Books:

Elmore Leonard, who died two summers ago, aged eighty-seven, became famous as a crime novelist, but he didn’t like being grouped with most of the big names in that genre, people such as Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett or, indeed, any of the noir writers. He disapproved of their melodrama, their pessimism, their psychos and nymphos and fancy writing. He saw in crime no glamour or sexiness but, on the contrary, long hours and sore feet. His criminals didn’t become what they were out of any fondness for vice. They just needed work, and that’s what was available. Read the full article here.

Also, please enjoy this bad ass video I made earlier this year in tribute to Dutch:

Writers Alive and November 2015 Prophesy

A major world political or religious leader will be assassinated very soon, possibly this month, throwing the globe into chaos and world war, setting the stage for The Day of the Lord and the return of Jesus Christ.
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy--1 Corinthians 14:1

Plumb and Exhale

Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved!--Psalm 80:3

Writers Alive and Yahweh's Scar

Please join Writers Alive at Blog Talk Radio for End Times Daily Broadcastsfor a message of peace, love and joy in these wicked last daysbefore Jesus returns.
"I have made you a light for the Gentiles,that you may bring salvationto the ends of the earth."--Acts 13:47

Writers Alive and End Times BlogTalk Radio

Please join Writers Alive at Blog Talk Radio for End Times Daily Broadcastsfor a message of peace, love and joy in these wicked last daysbefore Jesus returns.
"I have made you a light for the Gentiles,that you may bring salvationto the ends of the earth."--Acts 13:47

Happy Halloween from the Clown Executioner

Tonight, I will be the Clown Executioner Benevolent Dictator Reluctant Candidate Mousse Envy Man every red bloodedAmerican girlDESIRES

NEWSBOYS=End Times/Remnant Band

"...if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved."--Romans 10:9

Scott Kauffman and "I'll Find My Own Way Out"

Enjoy this short story by award winning writer, Scott Kauffman, whose new novel, Revenants, is forthcoming this January.

I'LL FIND MY OWN WAY OUT
By Scott Kauffman
“Those two just threw themselves into everything, and we told each other that’s the pluck one must dig down deep to discover if you’re to play out the hand dealt you. Then this February the Frederick boy, Cody I think, spotted exhaust pluming out from under their garage door as he biked his early morning paper route and ran across to the Watsons. We have here only a volunteer department, mostly made up of us aging vets, and it was some minutes before we pulled our clunker of an engine up out front. Not that it mattered. Doc Morgan pronounced them dead since midnight. Such a waste. We needed them. Needed them indeed.”

The pastor leaned forward, hands folded before him on the glass desktop as might a man of faith not yet ready to relinquish his prayer. “So have you told their son yet?”

An iron-haired Marine Corp major looked up from his notepad. He shook his head.

“No. Not yet. Mission critical for us is first to get our facts straight. Absolutely straight. You said you served in the military?”

“Yes. As a chaplain.”

“Then you can appreciate. This isn’t something we want to fubar for our sergeant.”

“No. Certainly not. How’s he doing?”

“Ten times better than I’d be if they’d kept me locked up in solitary for five years, though our people say his English skills degraded, degraded considerably, but we’ve got our crackerjack speech therapist working with him.”

“He’s going to be all right then?”

“He’ll be better. Back to the way he was? Well, who’s to say. What with everything. They tell me it’s mostly up to him.”

“Isn’t it always. Up to us I mean.”

“That’s what we drill into them.” The Marine major’s thumb clicked his pen. “You seem troubled, Pastor.”

“I am. Troubled in my not understanding.”

“What exactly?”- See more at: http://adelaidemagazine.org/scott_kauffman.html#sthash.wSoDOlIJ.dpuf

Beautiful News Matt Redman cover at Oakbrook

I'm pretty sure this crew nailed it. Hyper cool. Cheers.

"Blessed be the Lord 
God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting:
and let all the people say, Amen.
Praise the Lord."
 --Psalm 106:48