Is it ever too late for a prodigal to turn toward home?

No epic would be complete without a tale of young lovers who must overcome great obstacles to be together, and mine is no exception…

During the first fifty years of my life, the prayers of believers seemed to me merely pious nonsense offered up into the void. My late wife, Teri, had had a blissful faith as a child, but lost it in her teenage years. When she and I came into the Light and gave ourselves to Christ at about the age of fifty, we had to learn—or in her case, relearn—how to pray…

From the victory song of Exodus 15 to the “new song” of Revelation 5, it’s clear that man was meant to worship God through both music and words. How else to express the ineffable, the transcendent?

No one has had a greater influence on my life than the 19th-century Scottish minister, novelist, and poet George MacDonald. His writings—along with those of C.S. Lewis—were what the Lord used to lead me to Himself thirteen years ago.

Several of the characters in my novel Hearts Set Free wrestle with difficult passages of Scripture, not out of a desire for intellectual understanding, but out of the urgent need to love God with all their heart, soul, strength, and mind…

“Show me a man who says that he has never been beset by doubt,” says one of the characters in my novel Hearts Set Free, “and I will show you a liar.”

We’re often reluctant to admit our religious doubts, and it’s not hard to understand why. How will people look at us? After all, when I was an atheist, I never admitted to my friends that I sometimes questioned my belief in the ultimate meaninglessness of life, fearful of being mocked as a weak-minded sentimentalist!

We may not even want to acknowledge our doubts to ourselves…

One time—back when I had a fast car and thoughts that raced for miles—I drove out to a desert place, looked up into a night sky drunk with stars and thought, God, what were you thinking when you placed us here?

Christians should never be intimidated by atheists who claim that science disproves the Bible and who mock those who believe in God. But neither should they be intimidated by those who claim that theories such as the Big Bang are ‘against the word of God,’ and that embracing modern science will undermine one’s faith…

Back in my gambling days, I was far more interested in the poker rooms of Las Vegas than in the nearby Hoover Dam. Years later, however, with all-in bluffs a distant memory, I became fascinated by the stories of how that titanic structure came to be, and, when I began writing Hearts Set Free, I decided that the great dam would play an important role in the novel…