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Emily Tomko's radical encounter with the Lord while at a nightclub changed her life forever and inspired her first novel. Her tastes tend toward vintage and she's a Germanophile, having spent a year in Bremen and Nuremberg. Emily loves the scriptures and writes with fierce compassion and a deep desire to see people freed from the miry clay of this world and walking in the truth. ...more

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Emily Tomko Being a writer is like conceiving and giving birth to a brand new child, without the 3 a.m. wake-ups. The best part about it is that the ideas themsel…moreBeing a writer is like conceiving and giving birth to a brand new child, without the 3 a.m. wake-ups. The best part about it is that the ideas themselves come from the Creator of all things, and it's something fun and purposeful and stimulating that we get to do together. Just like with physical conception, and indeed with the creation of the universe, in the very beginning little is visible and what is there has no form. And then suddenly, the work begins to take shape, and features start emerging. And then there's the point in which the writing has indeed taken on a life of its own, and you feel that while you had a hand in the initial act, you're now kind of just along for the ride. What will these characters do next? What are they thinking? How will they react to the variables that are coming into their world? And these little "children" that you've given birth to in print will outlive you for generations, and be their own legacy and inheritance, hopefully to inspire and delight others long after you're gone.(less)
Emily Tomko I can hardly believe it myself, but I just finished a Christmas novel! Not merely the usual Christmas romance, this incorporated a kind of country ver…moreI can hardly believe it myself, but I just finished a Christmas novel! Not merely the usual Christmas romance, this incorporated a kind of country versus urban tug between the protagonists, and along with that the pull the past has on us and its implications to shape our future.

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Execute the Judgments Written

How does the West survive its current crisis? How does America, and other nations with Christian roots, avoid the Civil War that so many are predicting?If you believe it is preferable to "die on your feet rather than live on your knees," and if you prefer to do battle in the Spirit rather than take up arms against your fellow man, then I invite you to take up this sacred and lofty duty of executin

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“I was so tired of this ceaseless, day-to-day tug-of-war between my hormones and my head, my vanity and my virtue. I felt very much as though I were caught in the middle of some dreadful battle in which taking a side of my own would mean certain misery in either case.”
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“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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“9p.m. My flat. Feel very strange and empty. Is all very well thinking everything is going to be different when you come back but then it is all the same. Suppose I have to make it different. But what am I going to do with my life?
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