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 [...]
It only takes a moment and one wrong choice for lives to change forever. Jacquelyn Lynn’s debut novel, Choices, is now available. Driving home before dawn one morning, college student Samantha Lawrence took her eyes off the road for just a few seconds to send a text. She swerved out of her lane and hit [...]
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 [...]
In this Grammar Tip, we’re going to talk about the punctuation known as quotation marks. One of my pet peeves as a reader is seeing quotation marks used incorrectly. When that happens, it can be confusing and sometimes completely change the meaning of the words. First, this may seem obvious, but let’s mention it anyway. [...]
An apostrophe is that punctuation mark that looks like a comma but it’s at the top of the line, not the bottom. The apostrophe has two purposes: To show possession. To replace missing letters in a word. When you use apostrophes to indicate missing letters, it’s usually in a contraction. In the context of [...]
And if the same person sins against you seven times a day, and turns back to you seven times and says, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive.” Luke 17:4 (NRSV) Jacquelyn Lynn speaks about forgiveness in a sermon at Tuskawilla Presbyterian Church. Below are highlights from her message. You must forgive. Jesus is abundantly clear. When [...]
You learned in elementary school that homonyms are words that sound alike but have different meanings. Homophones are a type of homonym. They’re words that sound alike but have different meanings and different spellings. In this Grammar Tip, we’re going to talk about one of the most commonly misspelled and consequently misused set of homophones: [...]
