Book 3 in The Psalm Series is almost here! Deep Calling Deep will be available September 1 in paperback and ebook, on all major retailer sites, for only 99¢ for the first week, September 1-7. To celebrate, both Prize of War and The Walls of Arad will be 99¢ each from September 1 through September 5. The audiobook version will be …
Meet Sextus
The hero of Deep Calling Deep is Sextus Afranius Burrus. Sextus was a real person, born around born AD 1 in Vasio, Gallia Narbonensis (now southern France). By all accounts, Sextus was an honorable man. In 51 AD, Nero’s mother Agrippina, then married to Claudius, chose him to be the sole Praetorian Prefect, going against the tradition of having two people fill the most important …
Two Are Better than One
Many try to make something of the fact that when Paul refers to the couple he usually places her name first—unusual for the time. We’d be better off noting that they are never mentioned separately.
Book 2 of the Psalm Series is Here!
Book #2 of the Psalm Series releases Wednesday! By the Waters of Babylon is written by Mesu Andrews, the award-winning author of Isaiah’s Daughter, Love In A Broken Vessel. The novella uses Psalm 137 as its foundation for the story, pulling supplemental plot from passages in 2 Kings 24-25, 2 Chronicles 36, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Proverbs. It’s the tale of the …
Paul’s Top Ten
Deep Calling Deep takes place while Paul was under house arrest in Rome. He was confined to rented quarters for two years. But he was not alone—and I’m not talking about the guard that was chained to him 24/7. The letters he wrote during this time mention at least ten people who spent some time with him in his prison-home. …
Ten Things Almost Every Movie About Rome Gets Wrong
Hollywood loves Ancient Rome. Who doesn’t? It would be hard to find a greater source of pomp, brutality, action, and personality than Rome. But apparently, sometimes Hollywood feels the need to embellish—leading to lots of myths, misconceptions and just plain errors that are often taken as fact. I give you ten. First, my pet peeve: Roman men did not fight …
The Hunter Is Coming . . .
The Psalm Series is almost here! I’m so honored and excited to be part of this amazing series. It’s the brainchild of Brennan McPherson, author of Cain and Flood from his “The Fall of Man“ series. Each of us was to choose a psalm—any of the 150—and write a story inspired by that psalm. The first book, by Brennan, releases …