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The Practice of Love
The Practice Of Love goes on sale next week, in which I am a contributing author.
The Practice Of Love includes 42 authors and 43 submissions. David Fitch, author of The Great Giveaway, and the newly released, The End of Evangelicalism? Discerning a New Faithfulness for Mission (Wipf & Stock, 2011) is contributing the foreword. Each story gives the reader a tangible experience in what it means to step into the Kingdom of God in a very real way.
I am the Writer’s Block
Why is it the one thing I want to write is the thing I put off until last? Have you ever done this?
I write on multiple blogs and websites, and have numerous writing projects going all at the same time. Right now, I run four blogs, and am working on three different books. But if someone were to come along and say, “Pick only one,” the decision would be easy. I would focus on writing my Grace Commentary on Luke.
And yet, over the past five months, which project have I spent the least amount of time on? That’s right, the Commentary on Luke.
I don’t understand it. Even now, why am I writing this post instead of working on Luke? Why would I rather go waste time reading Twitter updates from people I don’t even know, than writing on Luke? Why do I go fiddle around with my CSS settings on one of my blogs (and eventually leave it as it was), rather than writing on Luke?
The Lie eBook
I wanted to learn the ropes of writing an ebook, and so started with something small and simple – a short story. The title of the story is “The Lie.” Here are the opening paragraphs:
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Yet there was the President, on the television screen, finally revealing the truth that had been hidden for so many years.
“We are not alone in the universe.”
“Tell us something we don’t know,” I muttered. At this time yesterday, only lunatics, fringe cults, and mad scientists believed in aliens. Aliens were for movies, not for real life. But today, all that changed. Nobody actually saw any aliens, but what else could have done it? Oh sure, some of the religious nuts were saying it was God, that the rapture had finally occurred. But if it was the rapture, when God comes and takes all his followers to heaven, why were so many of the religious people still here? Many of them were wondering the same thing. So it clearly wasn’t God. And now, the president was confirming what we all knew.
Published Works of Jeremy Myers
Education
- 1999 – B.A. in Bible and Theology, Moody Bible Institute
- 2008 – Th.M. in Bible Exposition, Dallas Theological Seminary
Thesis: “Honor and Shame at the Judgment Seat of Christ”
Books
- The Lie
– A short story about the Rapture, (2011)
- Contributor to The Practice of Love
(Civitas Press, 2011)
- Contributor to Not Alone: Stories Of Living With Depression
(Civitas Press, 2011)
- Skeleton Church
A Bare-Bones Definition of Church (2012)
- Finding Church – Coming Soon!
Articles
- “The Gospel Under Siege” in The Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society 16:31 (Autumn 2003).
- “Good Works: A Necessary Result of Justification?” in Chafer Theological Seminary Journal 10:1 (Spring 2004).
- “The Gospel is More than ‘Faith Alone in Christ Alone’” in The Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society 19:37 (Autumn 2006).
- “What’s on Second? Who’s on First? Deuteroproto in Luke 6:1.” Online technical article.
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