Yes, yes, yes, I know. I’m about nine hours late on this one. I have a variety of excuses as to why: It’s Lent. We Lutherans have a tradition of special worship services on Wednesday nights during Lent. Let me tell you, there’s nothing more exhausting than leading worship and…
We don’t just find mountaintop experiences in the Old Testament. Three of the apostles had an amazing one. It’s a story that’s told in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Peter and the Transfiguration One day, Jesus invited Peter, James, and John to go up with Him to the top of a…
WHERE WE LEFT OFF: Staci and Leon struck out when they tried to interview the locals. Ray, surprisingly, uncovered a pattern: approximately every three years, someone goes missing from town. The disappearances are explained different ways. Not only that, but the local Catholic priest resigned after one of the disappearances.…
Has everyone seen this? I have to say, this makes me a little less worried than I was before. When I heard that Michael Bay was going to make a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, I got worried. I stopped watching his Transformers stuff after the first one and, from…
Well, now, this is more like it. The Kynetic Novella First things first: I’ve finished the first draft of the Kynetic novella. I don’t have a title for it still and it definitely needs some editing. But the first draft is in the can, so to speak, and weighs in…
Cress is a prisoner and she has been for a long time. Worse, she’s a slave for the wicked Queen Levana, the cruel monarch of the moon. She has to use her prodigious hacking ability to help Lunar ships sneak to and from Earth. She’s part of the reason a…
Over the past few Mondays, I’ve been talking about spiritual mountaintops, how it’s so easy to get caught up in our emotions that we become convinced that we’re as close to God as we’ve ever been. But then we tumble back down the other side and crash. Moses had just…
WHERE WE LEFT OFF: Staci and crew checked out the site where Lisa’s house once stood and found very little except for an odd little rag doll. They’re yelled at by the sheriff and they interview the mayor. Now it’s time to hunker down in the library and do some…
The citizens of Kento haven’t exactly had an easy life. Several generations earlier, they were banished from their home country and sent out into the wilderness with scant supplies and only their wits about them. They found a possible site along a river and began by building a collection of…
So I’m doing better. This week, I was able to add 4,278 words to the Kynetic novella, bringing the grand total up to 20,088 words. I’m really happy about this. True, the progress isn’t quite enough, but I’m closing in on the climax and, earlier this week, I had a…