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Category: The Way of the Servant Warrior

Bloody Hollywood: Part Two – Treasure Hunt

Chapter Thirteen Where Is Your Treasure? What is your treasure? What are you working hard to obtain or to maintain? Why is it important to you? When you get it, where do you keep it? If suddenly, it vanished, what would you do? How would you feel? We have dear friends who lost everything but…
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Bloody Hollywood: Part One

Chapter Twelve Does Hollywood Success Always End In Suffering? Have you ever experienced disastrous failure? I’m not talking about a minor screwup. I’m talking about major, life-changing destruction caused by your actions or the actions of others. I have experienced that and I’m going to tell you about it. But let’s start with this thought.…
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Stories From The Equalizer: Using Your Gifts With God

Chapter Eleven: How Will You Be Remembered? I have a question for you. When you are gone, how will you be remembered? Here’s another one that relates to it. What has been the most important goal of your life? As a Hollywood professional I can tell you that so many come to the entertainment industry…
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The Most Powerful Weapon In The World

Chapter Ten The Secret Of Resilience: Can Gratitude Defeat Despair? For the next several chapters I’m going to tell you some stories from my long experience in Hollywood as a writer and producer in network television. I’m going to do it for two reasons. First, to show you how God guides and cares for us…
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The $200 Dollar Year

Chapter Nine: Crossing the Dividing Line of Faith and Fear Be honest, what really terrifies you? I can tell you that I have experienced sheer terror. I remember vividly 25 August 1968. I can still hear the automatic weapons fire when my platoon and the entire battalion walked into an ambush. Initially, we couldn’t see…
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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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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 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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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 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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Which War & What Weapons?

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…
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