“Audience, audience, audience.” That’s what Dr. Morris at Parkland Junior College repeated in the Creative Non-Fiction class I took in spring, 2005. “Who is your audience? Are you writing for teenagers, Christians, Midwesterners, Asians, baby boomers, tattoo artists, working class, white collar, atheists?” “Who’s your client?” That’s what I learned in psychotherapy training. What’s on …
Category Archives: Christian Devotional
Heavy Fellowship
“Take up your cross and follow me,” Jesus says. Three of the four gospel writers record this statement, Matthew twice. (Mark 8:34, Luke 9:23, Matthew 10:38 and 16:24) What does he mean? Growing up on the farm fifty years ago, a neighbor referred to her husband as her “cross to bear.” He didn’t go to …
Kingdom Ready
The older I get the more I long for the end of the story, for the Kingdom fully come. Part of me is tired. That old part. And I’m not even 60. Like Lot in Sodom and Gomorrah, however, I’m tired of the rebellion. (2Peter 2:7) The conflict between God’s order and human disorder lies …