We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work.

Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.

No life is messier than one in ministry

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.