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Focus: Praying for the world around us Before You Begin: You might need a blanket or lawn chairs. The Prayer Time! Take your family outside and sit together on your porch, patio, or back yard. If you don’t have an area such as these, go to a local park, spread a blanket or set up […]

Focus: Thanking God for responding to prayers Before You Begin: Find a box in which you will collect mementos to remind you and your family of God’s active presence in your lives. You’ll also need decorative supplies (such as wrapping paper, construction paper, stickers, and markers). The Prayer Time! Begin by taking a box or […]

I am (if nothing else) a curious person. Sometimes that gets me in trouble, like when I decided to find out what would happen if I jumped over a college balcony. I discovered—too late—it was almost two stories high. (Yeah, I impressed the girl…but I also limped around campus for a week!) Other times, my […]

A Marketing Team reason for rejection Elizabeth Gilbert has made gobs of money—and generated a huge amount of media coverage—with her memoirs Eat, Pray, Love and Committed. That means your memoir of transformative living should have equal appeal to a publisher, right? Wrong.  Because, despite the documented, exceptional success of people like Gilbert or James […]

It Takes Less Than A Minute To Reject Your Work. I make it my goal to reject every book proposal you send me in 60 seconds or less.  This includes book ideas that come in my email box. Book that are hand-delivered to me at a writer’s conference. Manuscripts recommended by a friend of a […]

Scripture: Matthew 8:1–4 Matthew 8:1–4 gives no obvious reason for Jesus’ decision to heal, except that the man with leprosy asked. However, Matthew indicates elsewhere that compassion was Christ’s ongoing motivation for healing (see Matthew 9:35–36; 14:14; 15:32–38; 20:29–34). That compassion was justified, especially considering these awful facts about living with leprosy in those days: […]