- Sun, Jul 06, 2008
- Writing
What are the Challenges and Payoffs of Writing?
I was asked recently about what the biggest payoffs and challenges in my writing are. One question was whether writer’s block is one of the difficulties.
I was asked recently about what the biggest payoffs and challenges in my writing are. One question was whether writer’s block is one of the difficulties.

Two weeks ago this moment, Nanci and I were flying home after the Resolved Conference in Palm Springs. Coming back to a green Oregon summer was nice after it hit 115 degrees in Palm Springs.
Congratulations to this month’s book giveaway winners. Each of the three winners will receive a signed copy of The Grace and Truth Paradox.
The randomly drawn winners are:
1) Jon
2) Amanda Ritter
3) Lisa (entered as Morning Rose)
All winners, please e-mail me as soon as possible at stephanie@epm.org with your mailing address and who you would like the book signed to.
Next month’s giveaway is all about summer reading. Check back on July 7 to enter the giveaway for Randy’s fiction books Lord Foulgrin’s Letters and The Ishbane Conspiracy.
And by the ...
Last week, same sex couples were married all over California.
The future is predictable. Streams of people will come from all over the country to be married in California, and then will go back to their home states and argue that their marriage licenses should be honored. What will the states decide?
Years ago in Washington, DC, I met a woman named Gianna Jessen, then a teenager. She sang at an event I was speaking at, and we had a delightful conversation. She is musically gifted and I found her a wonderful testimony to God’s grace.
Fatherhood's an incredible privilege, one we should thank God for every day, but which too easily we grow accustomed to and take for granted and, if we're not careful, occasionally resent. (For instance, after weeks without having a good sleep.)
This weekend at my home church, Good Shepherd Community, three good friends and I brought a group message from Romans 14. As you can see, we were having a good time. And hopefully we helped open up the passage. Different people bring different insights to a passage, and this passage is about differentness.
This month we’re giving away Randy’s book The Grace and Truth Paradox to three randomly drawn winners. This is a great little book with a really big message: learning to exemplify both God’s truth and grace in our lives.
What should the world see when it looks at us? Christ. But we've come up with hundreds of principles and thousands of rules attempting to be Christlike. It's too complicated to wrap our minds around. And Christ gets buried under lists, rules and formulas.
John 1:14 boils down for us what it means to be ...
This is Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal, the first two men to climb to the peak of Mount Everest.
Congratulations to this month’s book giveaway winners! Each of the three winners will receive a signed copy of Deception.
The randomly drawn winners are:
1) Malvina
2) Jon (posted as JW)
3) Holly Murphy (posted as Holly)
All winners, please e-mail me as soon as possible at stephanie@epm.org with your mailing address and who you would like the book signed to.
Thanks to all who entered! Next month’s giveaway is Randy’s book The Grace and Truth Paradox—check back to enter on June 9.
Stephanie Anderson
Promotions Director
Eternal Perspective Ministries
www.epm.org