My mom died more than 30 years ago, but I still feel her with me every day. Sometimes when I open my mouth to speak, her words come out. And that makes me smile. Mothers aren’t perfect, but in their imperfect humanness, they are amazing founts of wisdom. I love reflecting on the things my [...]
Life is about coming home. In our life on this Earth, we go out, we travel, we do interesting, exciting things—and sometimes boring, unexciting things—and then we come home. It is in our nature to look forward to coming home. Something my husband and I say almost every time we take a trip is how [...]
If you open Your Guide to Marketing Christian Books: Fourth Edition and read it from beginning to end, you’re going to be overwhelmed. Do it anyway. About halfway through, your head will be spinning and you’ll wonder how you can possibly do it all. You can’t. You don’t need to. You just need to find [...]
We are made in God’s image. We are made in the image of God—the same God who: Creates Loves Forgives Cares Guides Works Rests What? Yes, God works. He created the heavens and earth. He created all the creatures. Once His initial work of creation was done, He rested and then went back to work. [...]
Clips from my presentation to the Central Florida Christian Chamber of Commerce: The story behind the video: In January 2018, I was having lunch with Mark Goldstein, president of the Central Florida Christian Chamber. He was giving me some great suggestions for promoting my book, Finding Joy in the Morning, and its companion study [...]
The completion of my first novel, Choices, filled me with an incredible sense of accomplishment as well as the need to express my appreciation to the people who helped me bring this story to life. I’ve decided to take the uncommon step of sharing my book’s acknowledgments here as well as at the back of [...]
Success Blast: How to Succeed, Triumph, Thrive & Skyrocket to Career & Business Success! Jack Alan Levine Great Hope Publishing, $14.95 Powerful, creative techniques to launch a new career or business or boost an existing one I left the corporate world decades ago—and never looked back—and I’m not interested in building a traditional business. Even [...]
Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution Tucker Carlson Free Press, $28 hardcover Is the United States a ship that’s about to sink? How did the United States get to where it is today—an intensely divided country where people of differing opinions can no longer engage [...]
Sometimes life knocks us to our knees. Not just once, not just twice, but over and over. When it does, we need to get up and keep going. But first, while we’re on our knees, we should pray. I’ve always said that God doesn’t care about our posture when we’re praying—what He cares about is [...]
Does your house of worship (church, synagogue, temple, mosque, etc.) need an armed guard to protect members from an active shooter? This excerpt from How to Survive an Active Shooter addresses some of the issues related to protecting houses of worship from possible attacks. It is geared primarily to organizations that do not have the budget [...]
