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A friend asked me to critique his writing. Uh oh.

“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Write this in a book as a memorial….” (Exodus 17:14). Asking me to critique your writing and advise you on improving it is not unlike seeking my advice for your cooking....

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People who sound like hell.

“In thy presence there is fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore” (Psalm 16:11). “Cast out the worthless slave into the outer darkness; in that place there shall be weeping...

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Making ourselves learn new things

“It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth” (Lamentations 3:27) When I was in high school, someone taught me to type.  Just after college, they taught me to run the teletype and then to work a...

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“Joe needs a new editing team.”

Someone left a stinging rebuke at the end of one of our articles that had been posted by an online magazine for people in the Lord’s work. The writer was perturbed that I had directed a piece to...

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I’ve been thinking about fictions lately

“For we did not follow cleverly contrived myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ….” (2 Peter 1:16). In the public library this week, it occurred to me that this...

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Revelation, fabrication, and making it up as you go.

“For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses….”  “For prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy...

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How to write humor. (An actual class for an actual writers conference)

In an effort to learn something beneficial to share with my class in 10 days at the Southern Christian Writers Conference in Tuscaloosa, I’ve been working and reading and thinking and worrying. Mostly...

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How not to write humor.

Don’t try too hard to be funny. Don’t announce that you are now being funny. Do not force it if this does not come naturally to you. Find your own way of expressing the humor you feel in life....

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How to stimulate the creative juices and possibly even write humorously

He who would write humorously should spend an hour at Walmart people-watching. She who would write creatively might wish to do the same thing, preferably with laptop or phone in hand for note-taking....

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The pastor intends to write a book, but probably won’t. Here’s why.

The pastor said to me, “When I retire, I’m going to write a book.  I have all these great stories and experiences I’m itching to tell.  That’s what I’m going to do.” I said, “No, you won’t.” He was...

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Is this the 39th best Christian blog? I seriously doubt it.

One of our colleagues in the ministry has collated a list of the 100 best Christian blogs.  Here is his announcement: http://redeeminggod.com/100-top-christian-blogs/ Last year, ours did not make his...

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A few of our articles which went viral

Several years ago a friend who works for one of the online preachers’ magazines and I were having a conversation about what works for pastor-blogs and what doesn’t. Anyone reading sermoncentral.com and...

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The Holy Spirit, my editor

“And when He comes, He will guide you into all truth…”  (John 16:13) A publisher once sent me a book to review for unknown reasons.  The writer at one time had belonged to a church I had pastored, so...

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How cartooning figures into my larger ministry (an assignment)

I was speaking to the medical staff at our Southern Baptist International Mission Board at the request of one of their physicians.  She asked that I talk about how cartooning figures into the ministry...

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Writing about those painful personal experiences

“If you have known pain, you have a story.  Tell it.” “This will be written for the generation to come; that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord” (Psalm 102:18). Humanity is indebted beyond...

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How to read well and fast, and hopefully smart

Or, if you don’t like the title above, try this one: How to read a 500 page book in 30 minutes! And retain 90 percent of what you read! That’s the come-on which led some of us to pay for the Evelyn...

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What I look for in a book

I love books.  At this moment, there are 12 beside my bed.  A western novel is on the table, and the others–dealing with Churchill, the Civil War, the presidential election of 1940, and a novel or two...

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Why reading a book will always be golden

“I was amazed that some words on a page could change your life.” –Testimony of a woman in rehab last Monday night.  She had been in and out of jail more times than she could count, and in prison three...

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Speaking in my defense….

“Oh that you would bear with me in a little folly–and indeed you do bear with me…. I say again, let no one think me a fool.  If otherwise, at least receive me as a fool, that I also may boast a little”...

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Start writing, pastor: The three most important steps are also the hardest!

“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Write this for a memorial in a book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua…'” (Exodus 17:14). Pastors say, “When I retire, I’m going to write a book.” It’s like a...

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