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Jay Carper I sit down at my computer and start writing.

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I sit down at my computer and start writing.

If I'm writing fiction, I ask myself "What's the worst thing or the most improbably thing that could happen next?" and just start writing about it. Pretty soon, inspiration comes. I might scrap everything I just wrote, but that's ok because it accomplished its purpose.

If I'm writing non-fiction, I pick a topic and I start writing about it. Inspiration usually comes sooner or later. If not, then I set it aside for a day or so and come back to it. If I still can't get a flow going, I pick a different topic and maybe come back to the first topic some other day.

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Joab and the King’s Heart

Joab stands out in Scripture as a man among men. He was King David’s nephew and one of his inner circle when David was little more than an outlaw hiding in the caves of Judea. Joab stuck with David through the years of running from Saul, triumph after Saul’s death, and even when the rest of the Kingdom turned away. He was a fierce warrior and one of the greatest generals of ancient Israel. Even wh

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The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
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Not to be trusted. One review said that this was the most unbiased book he'd ever read on the gnostics, but I can't imagine that is remotely true. Ms. Pagels misrepresents several statements in Paul's letters, promoting the most extreme minority re-i ...more
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“If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.”
John C Wright

Vincent Cheung
“Within the Christian worldview, Scripture is the sole and ultimate test for truth. God has given us a system of truth through the Scripture. Since the Bible is God's revelation, it can never be wrong on any issue that it addresses. A thorough knowledge and understanding of the Scripture, then, is our ultimate safeguard against satanic deception of every kind.”
Vincent Cheung, On Good and Evil

Donna Tartt
“From William Blake to Lady Gaga, from Rousseau to Rumi to Tosca to Mister Rogers, it’s a curiously uniform message, accepted from high to low: when in doubt, what to do? How do we know what’s right for us? Every shrink, every career counselor, every Disney princess knows the answer: “Be yourself.” “Follow your heart.” Only here’s what I really, really want someone to explain to me. What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?”
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

Daniel Kahneman
“Familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.”
Daniel Kahneman

Walter  Scott
“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
Sir Walter Scott

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