Jason Thompson's Blog

May 2, 2024

Big News & Long Overdue Update!

As I went to visit my website this week for the first time in many, many months, I tried to guess how long it had been since I posted a newsletter on the site. I said to myself, ���I bet it���s been over a year.��� When I scro...

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Published on May 02, 2024 19:48

March 11, 2022

Kenya Trip

It���s hard to know where to begin. How do you encapsulate ten days of action-packed ministry and surreal life experiences into one newsletter? From the moment we were picked up from the airport to the day we were dropped ...

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Published on March 11, 2022 10:53

January 20, 2022

Crazy Busy Season

I prefer to use my blog to provide a brief devotion or some kind of spiritual insight. Something that has a chance to encourage, or challenge, or inspire my readers. But as I sit here staring out the window at the remnan...

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Published on January 20, 2022 11:44

December 9, 2021

The White Rabbit

You only get one or two good snow days a year in Greenville, SC, so when they come, you have to make the most of them. And no one I know is better at making the most of life than my friend Dan. So, I shouldn���t have been ...

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Published on December 09, 2021 10:37

November 4, 2021

Giveaway Celebration!

So, my book became an Amazon Best Seller yesterday. You might think I would take great pride in such a feat, but that is not how I feel at all. I feel humbled and sheepish. I do not deserve these rankings. Yesterday's nu...

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Published on November 04, 2021 11:42

October 30, 2021

It's Here!

My discipleship book, Worth No Less, is now available on Amazon! It has also gotten off to an amazing start thanks to the best Launch Team a guy could possibly hope for. In its first week it reached the top ten list on A...

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Published on October 30, 2021 09:06

September 30, 2021

Original Intro

I've been told a great way to get people excited about your book is to share the introduction with your readers before the book comes out. That way, they get a taste of your style of writing and gain a clear understandin...

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Published on September 30, 2021 06:53

September 15, 2021

The Worst Part

There are several downsides of becoming an author. The inability to turn off my writer���s brain was a bad one for me. I could not stop rewriting paragraphs in my head. Other painful aspects include: temporary writer���s blo...

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Published on September 15, 2021 11:48

August 15, 2021

What Has Changed?

I started writing Worth No Less in the face of my second divorce. Yes, you read that correctly. I am a Christian author and pastor who has been divorced not once, but twice. The irony and presumptive shame of my situatio...

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Published on August 15, 2021 12:01

July 19, 2021

Dream Brought to Life

I once dreamed of writing the great American novel. Visions of writing with the power and simplicity of Twain and Hemingway danced in my head. Making people laugh out loud one moment and shed a tear the next, just like t...

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Published on July 19, 2021 06:53