The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

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

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.

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.