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…

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…

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…

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. …

Chapter Three: Comfort Almost Killed Me; Is It Killing You? I’m going to tell you a story that is truly embarrassing.  I have done many stupid things in my life, but, as you will hear, this one towers above them all. And, yes, it’s another military story. After I entered my infantry battalion, which I…

Chapter Two: Your Idol Is The Battle You’re Avoiding It was eleven o’clock at night. I was 21 years old and an infantry second lieutenant. I had been in Vietnam about two weeks at the Army reception station outside of Saigon. Finally, my orders came in. I was assigned to a front-line infantry battalion of…

Chapter One: If You’ve Reached A Dead End, Try The Way Of The Servant Warrior What you are about to read isn’t for everyone. It’s for what I call desperate people. So, are you a desperate person? There are ways to tell. You may have wealth or you may be living in poverty, people may…