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The furnace is behind him, but Nabu cannot stop thinking about what Daniel has told him. Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah entered the fire without knowing whether they would survive. Later, alone beneath the stars, Nabu thinks of the fourth figure who joined them in the flames. He did not save them from the fire. He…
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Not everything I write is for adults. Jake and the Road of Lights was written especially with younger readers in mind—a story of adventure, choices, friendship, and learning what it means to follow the right road when the way ahead isn’t always clear. At the heart of the story are the fruit of Holy Spirit:…
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Three Hebrews stand before Nebuchadnezzar and refuse to bow. They know their God is able to rescue them from the furnace. But their faith does not depend on rescue. “But even if He does not, we will not bow.” In Scroll XI of The Daniel Scroll, Daniel tells Nabu what happened when Hananiah, Mishael, and…
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After many months of writing, revising, cutting, rewriting, rearranging, and occasionally wondering whether I had any idea what I was doing, Because of the Storm — Book One has reached an important point. I’m beginning my final author edit. There will still be proofreading, formatting, and the inevitable last-minute discoveries that come with preparing a…
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Nabu returns to the scriptorium carrying more than Daniel’s story. When Bel-iddin accuses him of beginning to believe the old Hebrew, Nabu cannot dismiss the question as easily as he once might have. Daniel’s account of kingdoms, a stone, and a kingdom that will never pass away has unsettled something deeper. In Scroll X of…
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Nebuchadnezzar demands the impossible. He summons the wise men of Babylon and requires them not only to interpret his troubling dream, but to tell him what he dreamed. For Daniel, the demand becomes a matter of life and death. In Scroll IX of The Daniel Scroll, Daniel remembers the night God revealed the mystery: a…
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Nabu begins the morning asking Daniel about the name Babylon gave him. By the end of their conversation, Daniel has turned the question around. What does Nabu’s own name mean? Nabu-shumu-ukin means “Nabu has established the name.” He was named for Nabu, the Babylonian god of scribes—the very deity whose name had been woven into…
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Nabu returns to Daniel with a simple question: why was his Hebrew name changed in Babylon? Daniel’s answer reaches far beyond a name. Babylon changed the names, food, language, and education of its young captives in an effort to claim them and reshape who they were. But Daniel had never forgotten who he was—or whom…
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I think I’ve finally settled on the cover image for Because of the Storm. That feels like a bigger milestone than I expected. This story began much smaller than what it has become. I am accustomed to writing novellas, and when I first started creating Because of the Storm, I certainly wasn’t expecting it to…
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Back at Babylon’s House of Tablets, Nabu recounts his first meeting with Daniel to his friend Bel-iddin. What begins as friendly skepticism soon becomes the first clash between doubt and conviction. “You chase ghosts.” Or does he? Read Scroll VI — You Chase Ghosts and continue the journey through Daniel’s remarkable story. Read Scroll V…