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Mark of a Man Blogfest

We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

Apparently men are just not as interesting as women. Well, I could have already told you that, but today offers graphic proof.

When August McLaughlin ran her Beauty of a Woman Blogfest, fifty or sixty people submitted blogs, myself included. In fact, that’s what prompted me to announce the Mark of a Man Blogfest.

Apparently only two of my readers thought men were a worthy topic for a blog. J. T. Therrien notified me Tuesday he would post his entry at http://jttherrien.blogspot.ca/2013/03/the-mark-of-man-blogfest.html. Rhonda Hopkins posted hers at http://rhondahopkins.com/2013/03/15/the-mark-of-a-man-blogfest/.

When I announced the blogfest, I assumed a few men would submit entries, but I really thought a bunch of women would want to have a say about men. Praising their husbands, fussing about bad dates they’d had, or at least telling us to put the toilet seat down. What I didn’t really expect was almost total silence on the subject.

In an announcement about the blogfest, I said I’d have a drawing and give some e-books to the winner. Since only two people entered, I’m going to award the books to both of them.

My thanks to you, J.T. and Rhonda. I hope a lot of people read your posts today.

Julie Glover submitted a late entry at http://julieglover.com/2013/03/15/stepping-up-and-stepping-out-the-mark-of-a-man-blogfest/#comment-6373.

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Bootstrap Christianity

 

If you abide in Me and My word abides in you, then you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

My Sunday School teacher has spent the last few weeks talking about man’s desire to improve: to improve himself, to improve his family and friends, and to improve others. His fundamental premise is that a normal person has an innate desire for such improvement, a premise everyone is our class agreed with.

The discussions we’ve had on this subject led me to put together this blog post. I agree with his premise, but I think most people go about it 180 degrees in the wrong direction. I think most of our efforts to improve ourselves could be classified as trying to pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps.

Most of you know that my Tuesday blogs are aimed at Christians, hence the cross at the top and the ichthus at the end. Today’s subject is even more directly aimed at the born-again Christian.

How does a Christian go about improving himself? The simple answer is that he doesn’t and can’t. Wait a minute, David. Do you mean a Christian cannot grow and mature? Cannot be a better person tomorrow than he is today?

No, that is emphatically not what I mean. In the normal course of events, growth over time should be a hallmark of a Christian. But my contention is that a person cannot grow himself.

A number of scriptures deal with the matter of Christian growth. Romans 8:28 and following tell us that God brings all things together for our good to conform us to the image of His Son. That definitely involves growth. But it says God does this, not we ourselves.

1 John 1:9 says when we confess our sins God will be faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness. Again, this is growth, but again, God causes the growth in us, not we ourselves.

Galatians 5:16 gives us the key to our own growth: “But I say, walk by the [Holy] Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.”

Even as we read this simple verse, most of us get it wrong most of the time. We read that and then tell ourselves “If I want to walk by the Holy Spirit, I must stop yielding to the desire of the flesh.” Then we go about trying to make ourselves holy enough to walk by the Holy Spirit.

That’s an impossible task. I can’t make myself quit succumbing to the lures of the flesh. It’s in my nature to follow these lures, and I can’t cut that nature out of myself.

What the verse actually says is that I need to walk by the Holy Spirit, and if I do that, the Holy Spirit can change me to the point that I don’t carry out the desire of the flesh. The change in my character is not my job, but that of the Holy Spirit.

Okay, so what does walking by the Holy Spirit mean? How do I do that. Actually, I can’t even make myself do that. My job in all of this is to keep myself submitted to God. Period.

That sounds so simplistic we Christians have trouble believing it. We keep thinking there must be something we have to grunt and groan and strive to do, but there isn’t. God takes all of this upon Himself.

He saves us through His Son. That requires no merit and no effort on our part, but it does require our submission. We receive salvation by confessing we can’t save ourselves and submitting ourselves for Jesus to save us.

He grows and perfects us through His Holy Spirit. Again, this requires no merit or effort on our part, but again, it does require submission. We receive, forgiveness, cleansing, growth or perfection by confessing we can’t cleanse, grow or perfect ourselves, and submitting ourselves for His Holy Spirit to do it in us.

I’m not preaching that we can achieve perfection, just that we can be perfected—be better tomorrow than today, and better than that the day after tomorrow. We’ll never attain perfection in this life, but the Holy Spirit can move us along the road to that perfection if we remain in submission to God.

It would be so simple, if our own egos didn’t demand that we do it ourselves. That’s the hard part. Overcoming ourselves enough to recognize the simplicity. We always seem to want to practice “bootstrap” Christianity instead of following God’s simple plan.

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Mark of a Man Blogfest/Fancy Update

We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

Slowly but surely, we’re moving through Fancy’s life. Fancy was published last August. In October, volume 2 of the series, Fancy: The Search went on sale. Volume 3, Fancy: Louisville, came out in December, and now volume 4, Fancy Follows the Rails, is up and running for Kindle and Nook and in paperback.

This book starts at the end of the Civil War and goes into the year 1869, just before the Union Pacific and Central Pacific met at Promontory Point, Utah, to complete the first transcontinental railroad. If you’re keeping up with the series, it’s time to get this one. If you haven’t read any of this series, you should give serious consideration to ordering book 1, Fancy, and then following the series from there.

For those who are not aware, this series features a strong woman making her way in a decidedly men’s world during and after the Civil War. It should be a good read for anyone interested in stories about strong women. The Civil War era setting should make it interesting to history buffs, too. The e-versions only cost $2.99, and the paperbacks under $8.00. Not much of a price to open the doorway for an enjoyable eight-volume series. All eight will be out before the year is over.

To order, pull down the tab underneath “Books” on my website and click on “Fancy.” This page will give you all the links to order any and all of these books you want.

Let me remind you also of the Mark of a Man Blogfest next Friday, March 15. I hope you’ll join in this event by submitting your own post. Send me the link by noon CST Thursday, March 14.

I will draw a name from among those who enter and give away your choice of e-versions of both 1) Heaven Sent and Fancy or 2) e-versions of all four volumes of the Fancy series that are now available.

I will have a separate drawing among those who comment on my site that day and award the winner an e-version of Fancy (volume 1).

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Inner Demons

If you abide in Me and My word abides in you, then you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

My friend Darlene Steelman posted a blog Sunday about dealing with inner demons. At the end of her post, she asked her readers how they dealt with these inner demons.

Joanna Aislinn replied that she deals with such things through prayer and constant reminders that God is in control and the she was where she was supposed to be in God’s plan. The combination of Darlene’s post and Joanna’s reply got me to thinking on the subject.

A couple of scriptures from the eighth chapter of Romans give the Christian the basis to avoid having to deal with such inner thoughts—or at least to overcome them if they do sneak in. Let’s take a look at what Paul said in Romans 28-30 (New American Standard Version):

. . . we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren

These words have long been a source of great comfort to me. Let’s take a close look at what Paul promises here. He says God causes all things to work together for my good. All things. Whether I win the lottery or have a flat tire or even come down with cancer, God promises to use that for my good. That’s a pretty amazing promise.

How do I know this promise applies to me? From the rest of what these lines say. At first glance, the rest of this quote may sound like gobbledy-gook, or if you happen to be Presbyterian, it may seem to say that all the events in your life are predestined and you have no control over them, so let’s take a closer look.

He said this promise applies "to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." Okay, I love God, but how do I know I was called according to His purpose? I know I was because I answered that call. I invited Jesus to be my own personal Savior. Had I not been called, I wouldn’t have answered with that invitation.

Before I was born, God knew that I would, at some point in my life, respond to that call. That’s why Paul said, "For those whom He foreknew . . ." He knew there was a combination of circumstances under which I would turn to Jesus and ask Him to be my Savior, so He arranged the circumstances necessary to bring me to that point.

". . . He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren." God took it upon Himself to build the character of Jesus within me. Now, that’s a long-term project. I wouldn’t even jokingly suggest that I currently possess that character. I don’t, and I know it.

But I do possess a little bit more of it than I did five years ago, ten years ago, the day I was born again. This is not because of my brilliance or my striving. It is because God took it upon Himself to work in me to achieve His purpose.

Okay, I said two scriptures. What’s the other one? The first two verses of Chapter 8, as translated by Charles B. Williams, say:

So then there is no condemnation at all for those who are in union with Christ Jesus. For the life-giving power of the Spirit through union with Christ Jesus has set us free from the power of sin and death.

No condemnation at all? That’s right. When I accepted the free gift of grace He offered for my salvation, Jesus cloaked me in His righteousness. I’m still a sinful human, but when God looks at me, He sees the righteousness with which Jesus cloaked me rather than seeing my unrighteousness. That’s part and parcel of salvation.

No demon, inner or outer, can effectively accuse me of anything, because there is no condemnation for me. I pay no attention to any such accusations, and I’ve been ignoring these demons so long they rarely even try any more.

So, why did I quote the second verse above? Because it’s the verse that provides the vehicle for change and improvement in me. The "life-giving power of the Spirit" has set me free from the law of sin and death.

This life-giving power actually lifts me up above the level of my own character and allows me to be more than I have the power to be. While God is at work building my character up to a higher level, His Holy Spirit can actually lift me above the level where I am. In other words, the Holy Spirit can cause me to act with a level of character I don’t possess, while God is at work building my character up to that level.

In the face of all that, there simply is no room for demons from within or without to launch a successful attack against me—or against any other born-again Christian who understands who he is in Christ Jesus.

If you have battles with inner demons, does this give you ammunition to win those battles?

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The Mark of a Man

We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

Participating is August McLaughlin’s Beauty of a Woman Blogfest got me to wondering—why not have a Mark of a Man Blogfest. I loved participating in her blogfest, and I think it’s great that she does it, but I also think maybe this is an idea whose time has come.

There are only three things that motivate a man: his belly, his ego and his libido.

Men are all logic and no emotion.

Grown men don’t cry.

The mark of a real man is washboard abs.

A man’s gotta have broad shoulders and slim hips.

A man’s value is measured in inches.

You’ve heard all these and other trite little statements about men. Do they really describe the male gender? Is there more to a man that this, or is this all there is?

Just as there is a lot more to a woman’s beauty than surgically enhanced boobs, there is more to a man’s worth than penile enlargement, although I’m bombarded all the time with spam about this method or that, surgical or non-surgical, for enlargement. I also see a lot of blogs, movie reviews, etc., judging men based on how their abs ripple.

Are these things really how women rate men? Are these the most important things for a woman to consider in evaluating whether or not a man is worthy of her time?

Do our minds count for anything? Our personality? Our character? Have we entered a youth culture in which only men with young, firm bodies are of value?

It’s your turn to tell us, ladies. Join in the Mark of a Man Blogfest. Write your own blog on the subject and post it on your own site on Friday, March 15th. Be sure to put in a link to my site, so your readers can see the opinions of other writers, too. I’ll list links to all posts entered into the blogfest as long as I get them by noon of Thursday, March 15th. Let me know if you’re entering the blogfest by Wednesday, March 14th.

Your link will be listed on my site in the order in which I receive the notification of your entry. Let’s have some fun with this.

By the way, guys, I’ve addressed this announcement primarily to women, but I’d like to see a healthy number of entries from you, too. Don’t let them have all the fun.

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Kathy Harris Talks About The Road to Mercy

 

If you abide in Me and My word abides in you, then you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

Today, it’s my pleasure to host Kathy Harris, author of The Road to Mercy. Her contact information appears at the end of this post.

Kathy, How long have you wanted to be a writer?

I’ve wanted to write since I was a young girl. I pursued the dream through college, graduating with a Communications degree. Then my life took a detour. I also loved music, and when I received a job offer in Nashville it turned into a 30-year career in music marketing.

More than a dozen years ago, I realized it was time to make good on my childhood dream of writing, so I completed my first fiction manuscript. After that, I began working on a second, which became my debut novel, The Road to Mercy from Abingdon Press (September 2012).

 

How does your faith influence your writing?

It’s the foundation. I doubt I would have finished my first manuscript if I hadn’t been motivated by the desire to encourage others in their faith.

 

What are the faith elements in The Road to Mercy?

I initially wanted to write about generational blessings. I love that concept—the idea that our lives today have been influenced by the faith (and prayers) of our ancestors. In the same way, I believe, we influence future generations. But The Road to Mercy is really a story about forgiveness. Not just forgiving others, but forgiving ourselves—which can sometimes be more difficult. I want readers to be encouraged, to be reminded that God loves them with a merciful and unfailing love.

Can you give us a short synopsis of The Road to Mercy?

From the back cover:

Tragedy, love , and secrets meet on a journey of faith

Dr. Ben Abrams, rescued as an infant from a fiery crash that killed his family, turned his adversities into success but lost his heritage of faith. Fifty years later, Josh and Bethany Harrison face a difficult decision that also tests their faith. A rupture in Beth’s carotid artery leaves her on the brink of death, even as she’s pregnant with their first child. While Dr. Abrams urges her to abort the baby to save her own life, she and Josh step out on faith and continue the pregnancy.

 

During the next few months, Josh, a contemporary Christian singer, struggles with his faith while Beth hides a secret that may destroy their marriage. She also discovers a decades-old connection to Dr. Abrams that could change his life forever.

What’s next for you?

Right now, I’m working on the final draft of a romantic suspense, which I hope to submit to a publisher this spring. After that, I have a women’s fiction manuscript to complete.

How can readers learn more about you and your book?

My author website is www.KathyHarrisBooks.com. I regularly interview Christian authors and music guests on my blog at www.DivineDetour.com. You can find me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/KathyHarrisAuthor or on Twitter: @DivineDetour

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What do you do when God places a fork in the road? You pray. Hard. And then you make a choice.

That’s what I did many years ago after graduating from college. I had two dreams. One of writing. The other of working in the music industry. I chose the latter because the path that led to music was clear. I had a job offer, a place to live, and a plan.

Through the years I’ve looked forward to the time and circumstances that would lead me back to writing. Not long ago, I saw a clearing ahead where two roads appeared to merge – the road I was on and the other I had also dreamed of taking.

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Beauty of a Woman

We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

As you probably already know, the beautiful and intelligent August McLaughlin runs an annual blogfest at her site called the Beauty of a Woman Blogfest.

This is the second year August has run this blogfest, but it’s my first year to join in the fun and honor the fairer sex. I hope I can do them justice.

A lot of men seem to think that a woman’s beauty lies only in her physical appearance. By the same token, a lot of women seem to think physical beauty is a detrimental quality in a woman.

Fortunately, in my observations, the ranks of both of these categories seems to be shrinking. More and more men seem to realize that a woman’s physical appearance is only one part of her value, and women seem to be getting more comfortable with the idea that they can be physically beautiful without detracting from their value.

In my youth, I think I tended to value women based on how pretty I thought they were. I don’t know if that was just me or if I was a reflection of the era in which I was born. Back in the 1950s, women pretty much worked as secretaries or schoolteachers or waitresses. A woman could have an IQ of 150, but there were few opportunities for careers beyond these.

The world has changed since then, and I’m glad it has. There are no jobs closed to women today. There may be individual bosses who hold back women for one reason or another, but basically any job that’s open to a man is open to a woman also.

As long as men are born with penises and woman with vaginas, physical beauty will have a place in the estimation of one gender for the other, and I see nothing wrong with that. However, that should by no means be the whole agenda. Even the most active couples aren’t likely to spend more than an hour or so a day in sexual activities. There had better be some basis for communication, esteem and affection for the other hours of the day.

When I began dating my wife, I was drawn by her physical appearance, but I fell in love with her because I began to see her mind and character and personality. In the long run, these latter things are more important than the first.

I closely follow the Ladies Professional Golf Association. The PGA bores me. The Champions Tour holds some appeal. But it’s the LPGA that really interests me.

Is that because all the women on the tour are raving beauties? No. They come in all sizes and shapes. Annika Sorenstam and Lorena Ochoa were two of the best and most popular female golfers in recent memory. Both were reasonably attractive women, but you wouldn’t call either of them a beauty. Their popularity derived from their abilities on the golf course and from the character and personality they showed off the course.

My personal favorite is Paula Creamer. I think she’s cute, but I wouldn’t rate her as a beauty. She’s not the best golfer out their either, although I keep pulling for her to get to number one. What I like about Paula is that she’s got a wonderful personality and that she is always very appreciative of what she has, both the winnings and the love she gets from the fans.

Closer to home, I’ve come to respect and appreciate females among my fellow writers. They seem to outnumber us guys about 10 to 1, and that derives from their abilities, not their looks. I consider many female writers to be friends, even though I haven’t met many of them. One of my closest writer friends sells thousands of books and travels all over to book signings and such, while I sell a few books now and then, but she never looks down her nose at me. She always talks to me as an equal.

Do I understand women? No! And any man who claims to is either a liar or a fool. However, I don’t have to understand you ladies in order to appreciate you. I can even appreciate the odd little things that seem irrational to me. I’m glad you are motivated more by your hearts than by your minds, and I don’t discount your minds one iota as I make that statement. Many of you have great minds, but it’s your hearts that make you so dear to me.

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Come With Me

If you abide in Me and My word abides in you, then you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

Today, I’m over at Kathy Harris’s blog www.DivineDetour.com. Come on over and join us. We’re saving a cup of coffee for you.

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Sale! $.99 Sale!

We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

As I mentioned in my blog, Tuesday was my birthday. I decided I should give you all a present for my birthday, so I’m putting Fancy on sale for $.99 (Kindle) for the next three days. Here’s your chance to see what you think of this series for practically nothing.

Fancy is a fourteen year-old girl whose mother died giving birth to her younger sister and whose father left her in charge when he joined the Confederate Army. When she received a telegram from the army a few months later telling her of her father’s death in combat, she’s left to face the world, plant and raise a cotton crop and raise her four year-old sister alone.

To make things worse, an unscrupulous neighbor produces a forged deed showing her father sold the family farm to him. He manages to take over and get her evicted, leaving her nowhere to go.

The owner of a local saloon, a lady who was once her father’s lover and gambling partner, takes Fancy under her wing, giving her a job and a place to live and mentoring her in the fine art of poker.

Follow Fancy through several trials and tribulations in this first book of the series. Then follow her on through volumes two and three as she moves on in her life. Volume four should be out before the month is over, and volumes five through eight should be released at two month intervals after that.

Where else can you get started on a whole new series for only $.99? Take advantage of this limited-time offer. Click here to order.

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Zero Birthdays

 

If you abide in Me and My word abides in you, then you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

Welcome to another Terrific Tuesday, where we take a look at God’s word, His kingdom or His people to see what we can learn about ourselves, Him and/or our relationships with Him.

Today, I want to take a break from my normal Tuesday routine and personalize our visit a bit. I hope you don’t mind.

For some reason, we all tend to make a big deal of zero birthdays. You know, thirty, forty, fifty, and so forth. We all seem to feel like we’re going over the hill when we reach these milestones.

Since I attained the Biblical three score and ten today, I thought I’d talk a bit about age. I know, you’re still young and don’t worry about such things, but humor me. After all, I was young once myself, believe it or not.

When I was born, my maternal grandfather was 58. He’d had heart trouble for some time, and his health was pretty poor. My main memories of him were either lying on his bed or sitting at the dining table, after which he would return to his bed. He died just after I turned three.

Apparently my heart genes came from him. I had a heart attack just before I turned 52, and I’ve been a high blood pressure patient ever since. Toss in a bout with pericarditis and a couple of bouts with atrial fibrilation, and it’s pretty obvious I take after him in the health department—except for my diabetes. He never had that.

Why did he die at 61 while I’m still reasonably active and feel pretty good at 70? It’s the miracles of modern medicine—and I thank God for all that medicine.

My other grandfather and both grandmothers were in there early fifties when I was born. Pretty young nowadays, but not so much back then. I thought all three looked ancient, and when I look at photos from that era, I still think they looked ancient.

Undoubtedly, part of the reason they looked so old was that I was looking from the perspective of a toddler, but that’s not all of it. People in general looked a lot older in the 1940s than they do today. Again, modern medicine—plus better diet and exercise habits than they had.

It seems like everybody over thirty moans about age, but especially when hitting one of those zeroes. “I’m getting so old,” is a common comment, whether the speaker is 30 or 40 or 80. I used to think about that, too. I remember on my 40th birthday I felt like I’d lost something. Likewise at 50, but something has changed since then.

As I approached this number 70, I began to take stock of how my general health compared with that of my dad and my grandparents. My mother doesn’t count. At 96 she still doesn’t take as many pills as I do, so she’s an exception to everything. Anyhow, I began to realize what a blessing each new day and week and month and year is. Besides that, at my age I’m not expected to give my seat to a lady or stand when I shake hands with people.

The other day, when I mentioned my upcoming 70th at a meeting of my writers’ group, one of the ladies freaked out. She couldn’t believe I was anywhere near that old. I don’t know whether she was flattering me or had left her glasses at home, but it felt good to hear that.

As your next birthday, and the next and the next approach, take heart. Be glad. Enjoy every moment of it. That’s what I’m doing.

How do you feel about your age? Do you dread birthdays? Zero birthdays?

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