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Here’s the first chapter of a novel I started writing a while back. I would love to hear what others think of it. Thanks!
Artificial Awakening — Chapter 1
I awoke at 5:55 am, Tuesday morning on a crisp November day in a JPL laboratory in Pasadena California. At least that’s what my memory logged at the [...]

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We’ve all heard these verses before:
Matthew 7:4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s [...]

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Christians love to preach. We have the gospel, we have our morals, we know what’s right and what’s wrong and we like to tell other people all about it.
Trouble is that many people have been turned off and don’t care to listen any more. Why is that?
Well, sometimes it can be helpful to look at [...]

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FICTION: No Sign of Intelligent Life

I had an idea yesterday for a science fiction short story. It would go something like this…
Two college kids are taking a sociology course and are given a research assignment to study how people are able to separate fact from fantasy, truth from propaganda and valid information from misleading advertisements. The premise is that society [...]

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FICTION: The Daughter

She was penniless, abandoned and alone. A starving outcast from society — cast about on cold streets by the winds of shame. Hope had fled away. Love was only a bad memory that brought with it great pain.
But one day there was a change in the wind. A gentle breeze of unmerited mercy blew and [...]

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FAITH & FICTION: Revelations 5 (part 2)

Here’s part 2 to my fictionalized version of Revelations chapter 5. You may want to check out Part 1 first, if you missed it. Also, if you are interested in reading the entire story that this excerpt came from, or any of the others stories that I have started, you can check them out here.
I [...]

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FAITH & FICTION: Revelations 5

I’ve always liked Revelations chapter five…
1 Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals. 2 And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the [...]

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FAITH & FICTION: He renews and restores our strength

I’ve always loved how David dealt with his disappointments. He cried out to God in total agony. And then. And then he would turn from complaining to God to singing the deeper truth — that no matter how much sorrow he had in his heart, he knew God’s love never ever failed. [...]

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