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Look at people in the world around you. It is impossible not to see that so many are hurting and unfulfilled in their lives. How can they be helped? I found the answer that works for me. I will reveal it to you: Put your faith in God. Open up and let Him...

As you begin to wake up in the morning, search with your mind’s eye what you can imagine that awaits you. In such a state, the beauty of your dreams might become visible to you. In this way, each day holds so many gifts from God’s outstretched hand...

This is the question I always ask myself when I start a new project. What elements do I want to include in my new book? At the very beginning when I started writing my new book. ‘Young Lincoln of New Salem,’ I knew that there would be at least three major...

In writing my new book Young Lincoln of New Salem, I wanted readers to get to know the Lincoln I had gotten to know from many years of research, feeling the emotions he felt during those trying years of his young manhood. Along the rugged Illinois...

I wanted to write something that would have elements of faith and patriotism. These elements became interwoven with strong spiritual beliefs, already inside me, enabling me to craft a novel that would resonate with many readers. It is through A Return to...

Most people seem to know more about how he died, rather than how he lived. My new book is more about how he lived and became the man we all know. From a young man of twenty-two who could barely write his own name when he came to New Salem, what events...