Writing Goals for the New Year
The New Year has arrived, and so has the resolution to write more. But when? A forty-hour work week, family, friends, weddings and funerals, vacations, doctors visits – how do we balance the normal ebb...
View ArticleA New Year. A Blank Page. What will you write?
I love the possibilities a new year brings. Once the holidays come to a close, I look forward to putting away all the decorations and restoring order. My husband and I sweep away the few pine needles...
View ArticleBreak My Heart for What Breaks Yours
I stepped into full-time ministry thirteen years ago. But it wasn’t until about a year ago or so that I experienced my first heartbreak of the so-called “missionary life.” I was in an unreached village...
View ArticlePray, Write, Repeat
Bone dry and seeking a jump start in my writing life, I eagerly soaked up every word of one of my favorite creatives, Andi Ashworth, at a recent writers workshop. I walked away with her tried-and-true...
View ArticleLove Our Readers
In the old English language, the word for “story” was the word “spell.” Therefore, to “tell a story” meant to “cast a spell.” Anyone who’s struggled to put down a good book knows what it feels like...
View ArticleTop 10 Writing Tips by Mary DeMuth
So many new writers I meet are wide-eyed and have great dreams of being published and making a living with their words. Many have no idea the journey it takes to become a successful writer, meaning you...
View ArticleCan I Get a New Word for the Year?
In the past few years, I’ve noticed friends posting their “word for the year” on social media. I always wonder how they come up with the word. Christians say, “Here’s the word God gave me for this...
View ArticleSpeak the Heart Language
I grew up in South Africa as a missionary kid and, although we spoke English, there remained many cultural words and phrases which did not translate when we returned to the United States. What I once...
View ArticleAre You Ready?
Do you feel prepared to combat your next temptation? Do you meditate on God’s Word enough to know when a false prophet tries to entice you into believing something contrary to Scripture? Do you know...
View ArticleThe History of ABH
Authenticity Book House (ABH) represents a rising from the ashes, a living corporation pulled from the hardness of life for the glory of God. The foundation of this statement sits on the reality that...
View ArticleThe Power of Bite-Size Books
One of my clearest memories, from working at ABH on school breaks, remains the day we received our first batch of mini books. Juliet (ABH staff member), and Yusuph (church planter with e3 Partners),...
View ArticleTransformation for Broken Lives
A few friends gathered at our home recently. Prior to their arrival my husband and I fell into a well-choreographed routine, vacuuming, cleaning, and sweeping up the clutter. When our first guest...
View ArticleBlazing a New Path for International Publishing
Authenticity Book House approaches its fourth year in the publishing world with great excitement. Recent strategy sessions, bathed in prayer, bring ABH to a tighter purpose–firmly aligning its...
View ArticleEaster on My Mind
Thoughts of Easter always take us back to a single moment in time–that day in history when Jesus defeated death and rose again. But we can actually see the message of Easter tracing all the way back to...
View ArticleSeeing God in the Rear-View Mirror
I admit it. Sometimes I allow feelings of failure and discouragement to take over. I often feel stuck in the “now.” My faith knows better, but my feelings occasionally win. When I look in the rear-view...
View ArticleWhom Do We Fight?
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the...
View ArticleMarriage as God Intended
Imagine Ashanti, a pastor’s wife in Tanzania, walking down a path with a beautiful baby on her back, a few other small ones running around or trailing behind her. She serves alongside her husband in...
View ArticleWriting as Full-Time Ministry
“I’d rather be writing.” If I owned a shirt with that saying on it I might wear it every single day. I love communicating with family, friends, and in my job, but I express myself so much better and...
View ArticleA New Perspective
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. (Psalm 19:1) The more we see of the world the more our understanding of God finds a chance to expand. Although we...
View ArticleGod Wants More for Your Writing…Do You?
When I asked ABH President Fran Geiger Joslin to speak to my freelance writing class at Cairn University, she challenged me to think twice about whether I really wanted her input. She never gives the...
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