My Updates & Articles
The Day The Loving, Gentle, Caring Jesus Was Butchered…For You & Me: A Good Friday Passion Video
Jesus Went: Good Friday Good News Reflection Several years ago I served at a church outside Grand Rapids while completing my MDiv program. During Easter 2008 one dear soul, Ray Minema, stunned us all by rewriting and reading the Passion narrative of the Gospels in his...
The Creation Narrative • A New Translation for ‘The Eden Legacy’
Genesis 1 and 2 • A New Translation for 'The Eden Legacy'Before I went all-in on storytelling, I was a pastor as well as an editor for a Bible translation. So, given this professional experience, joined by my academic background with post-graduate degrees in divinity...
11 Things You Need to Know about the Devil, Demonic Possession, and Exorcisms
11 Things You Need to Know about the Devil, Demonic Possession, and ExorcismsWe live in wicked times. Not only with the rise of urban violence and recent phenomena of mass shooting events at movie theaters and nightclubs and the like. But also the rise of satanic,...
The Epistle of Jude • A New Translation for ‘Apostasy Rising’
The Epistle of Jude • A New Translation for 'Apostasy Rising'For the second installment of my new sci-fi apocalyptic thriller Apostasy Rising, I wrote my own translation of the New Testament Epistle of Jude using the latest in biblical Greek scholarship and breaking...
Who are the Knights Templar? 8 Things You Probably Didn’t Know.
Who were the Knights Templar? 8 Things You Probably Didn't Know.Nine-hundred years ago, a band of nine former Crusader knights banded together to form a Church order. We know them as the Knights Templar. The history behind the Templars is a fascinating, if not storied...
Is the Holy Grail Real? The Legend and Meaning of the Mythic Relic Chalice
Is the Holy Grail Real? The Legend and Meaning of the Mythic Chalice As a sucker for a good relic mystery and suspense thriller, I figured the next book I wrote was pretty obvious. And as a super fan of Indiana Jones stretching back to my early teens, here we are...
