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Category: Essays

The Deadly Big Mac And My Panic Attack

Chapter 8 Is There Escape From Fear? I was 25 and I was shocked and terrified. How could this be happening to me?One morning I began having heart palpitations. I thought I was having a heart attack. My wife took me to a hospital emergency room. There I crashed into total humiliation. It wasn’t a…
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A Combat Veteran Examines President Trump’s Words About Those Who Served

It is time for military veterans to face reality about this President. In a recent press conference, President Trump boasted that the recovery effort for the downed airman in Iran was one of the greatest military operations of its kind ever mounted. He said, “This has never happened before. . . No one has ever…
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Sea Of Fire

To Hell And Back? It happened to a man named Thomas Welch on July 1, 1924. He had gotten a job at a saw mill in Oregon as an engineer’s helper. What happened took place on his first day of work. The mill was sawing giant squares that were flumed down a trough of water…
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The Horizontal Shield of Forgiveness

Chapter 7 Is Forgiving Others Good For YOU? Here is the reality. We live in a world that is a cesspool of hate and anger. Most tragically, for many, many generations, that hate has spewed between people who claim to be Christians. During the 1940’s in my mother’s hometown of Tonkawa, Oklahoma, all of her…
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The Terrifying Truth Of Dark Visitors In The Night

The terror that comes in the night. The man’s story appeared on Vice.com and was titled “How I learned to live with sleep paralysis and the terror that comes with it.” His name is Geoffrey, no last name is given. These are his words: “Sleep paralysis always rears its head right as I’m about to…
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The Vertical Shield of Forgiveness

Chapter Six: Healing Anger, Finding Peace Let’s start with another story about forgiveness. Several decades ago, Carel and I were contracted to adapt a novel into a screenplay for Billy Graham’s film organization, Worldwide Pictures. We loved the novel. It was about a middle aged couple, followers of Jesus with no children. Tragically, the wife…
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Mothman: Return Of The Winged Gods

The terror happened on Thursday September 24, 2020. At 11 PM a post office employee left her job to go home. These are her words: “I had just left the Sorting Facility at O’Hare Airport and was walking out to my car when I saw something standing at the far end of the lot where…
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Is There A Dead Body Chained To Your Soul?

Chapter 5: Why Carrying Unforgiveness Is Killing You I ended the last chapter with a beautiful story of forgiveness. I’m going to start this one with a terrible story about unforgiveness. In the late 90s a series of evangelical novels was published that became extremely successful for their two authors. Each made millions of dollars…
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The Fairie/Alien Connection

A young woman lay in childbed. In the 1600s in Scotland, that was a very dangerous place to be. So many women died giving birth and often their babies died with them. Tragically, that’s what happened to this young woman. She passed away. Her weeping husband buried the wife he loved and tried to go…
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The Iron Discipline

Chapter Four: Is Unforgiveness Toxic? During my career in Hollywood, I went through a series of terrible experiences. They were brought on by people in power. You’ll be hearing about some of them in future chapters. But as bad as they were, far worse have been things done by people who claimed to be Christians. …
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Freaky Fireballs, Forgotten Infernos & Supernatural Disasters!

Fireballs in the Sky Twice a year for centuries, an eerie phenomenon has appeared from the Mekong River in Thailand. Fireballs of different sizes begin rising out of the water into the sky. They have been seen by hundreds of thousands and no one can explain what causes them. In the past they were called…
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