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Jamin Melanson

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Science Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction

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Jamin's imagination sparked to life at the very moment he was born. As a little boy he imagined massive stories going on in the world around him that no one else could see but him. People thought he was crazy. Jamin knew he was crazy.

During his teenage years, some of these stories began to take form into a singular plot. He started to write it all down by hand. By age 15, the first draft was completed. He still has a copy.

But Jamin was not satisfied. He wanted more from his story. And so it expanded. And this is how his first novel series - Palmara - was born.

Years have passed, and the world of Palmara has continued to evolve. What used to be a snapshot of the future of our world has transformed into an entirely different world with a rich ...more

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The Lord’s Festivals: Pentecost

This Sunday, June the 9th, is the Festival of Pentecost.

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If you are a Christian, I bet you also didn’t know that Pentecost is one of the Festivals highlighted in Leviticus 23. Growing up, I associated Pentecost with the coming of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2. And while this is a correct association, I never knew the real story behind Pentecost until I started looking into t

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Taliesin (The Pendragon Cycle #1)

by Stephen R. Lawhead

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Lamb of the Free: Recovering the Varied Sacrificial Understandings of Jesus's Death

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“Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, Merlin

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