What Do Isaiah and Batman Have in Common?

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I’m guessing you’ve never thought of Batman while reading the book of Isaiah. Me neither. But in Isaiah’s Daughter, this courageous prophet must slip through a secret entrance in his personal wine cellar and enter a honeycomb of underground caves to rescue his friends. I thought he was a little super-hero-ish as I wrote some of his courageous decisions. His words. His deeds.   Granted, Isaiah’s family-owned home and its secret entrance wasn’t as snazzy as Bruce Wayne’s bat-cave, but his courage felt every …

Balancing Fervent and Flexible

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I’m not a Type A personality, but I do like to get things done—especially when I believe the tasks in question might make a positive impact on God’s Kingdom. These things are more than tasks, really; they’re a calling.   Such is the case with my newsletter debacle. For four months, October of 2017 through January 2018, my assistants and I were in sort …

3 Passover Truths to Enhance Your Easter

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Our girls have been blessed with amazing grandparents. They’ve had grandmas and grandpas that did all the cool things their dad and I sometimes lacked the energy to pull off. I never decorated Easter eggs until we had grandkids of our own. Never needed to because—you guessed it—the grandparents took care of Easter egg hunts, Christmas stockings, and even birthday cakes.  What did …

Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #27

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Welcome to Scavenger Hunt Stop #27! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all 30 Stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes! The hunt BEGINS on 3/1 at noon MST with Stop #1 at LisaTawnBergren.com. Hunt through our loop using …

Welcome, Jill Eileen Smith!

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I’m so excited to introduce you to the lady that opened the door for our current resurgence of quality biblical novels. When I took my first book proposal to a writer’s conference in 2001, I had a small component of biblical fiction buried within a Bible study.    The editor shook his head and, among his myriad of objections, said: “Biblical …

Nicknames, Name Changes, & Nightmare Pronunciations

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If you’ve ever read one of my novels, you know they’re filled with difficult-to-pronounce names. I try to extend mercy to my readers by assigning nicknames to the characters, a practice I’ve found nowhere in historical records. But nicknames are something with which modern-day readers are familiar.   My readers also have to keep up with character name changes, sometimes changed by God, other times …