There’s got to be more to this life than what we see on the news everyday. There’s a journey to be had. A new door opening. I stand at the threshold, the first crack of light to a new world. My hope is to strive for the beyond – toward heaven and all the good things it holds. Jesus is firmly in control. And He’s given us the power of story to explore it.
The story of the Prodigal Son retold as a sea adventure…
In the cozy Oregon coastal town Springwick Harbor, Wade Burns’ desire is to follow in the footsteps of his adoptive father, Abner, and become the Lighthouse Keeper. But Abner has chosen his natural son Jeshurun as First Assistant and successor. Wade is so jealous of Jeshurun’s favor that he decides to do what no sailor in town is brave enough to do: sail away on a cursed vessel called the Vermillion Mourning to become the Keeper of the Hostel Sound Lighthouse. It’s a mythical, diabolical place—rumored to cast bent light. Wade knows he shouldn’t stray, but Dion tempts him with its lure… Read more on Amazon.
At the close of the 19th Century, a prospector terrified of the dark must brave a dangerous tunnel to mine his wayward son. If he succeeds, it will crush him…
As an orphan living in the slums of Boston during the Civil War, Sollinger is betrayed by his belated father’s partner and sent to prison for 35 years. He is released into the bustling Industrialized America of 1896, minus an eye, and begins his personal quest to find not only his father, if he’s alive, but also a vein of gold, even though the Gold Rush has long since passed. Driven west, physically ill… Read more on Amazon.
Jimmy Tample is determined to make it to the PGA. For the last sixteen years he’s been punished for trying, by way of Q School… Four stages. Multiple rounds. One terrifying hole after another. It’s so grueling that former PGA players who have been forced to requalify through it, fizzle out. This year, his seventeenth, Jimmy has made it all the way to the last round of the final stage. In a moment, he will earn his Tour card and a few bucks as well, to help pay off a heap of debt. He’s in good hands. His caddy happens to be his wife. She knows his game better than anyone. But something unsettling is happening…. Read more on Amazon.
It’s finally Christmas Eve. The entire Straw family has gathered to celebrate the best day of the year. But there’s a problem. Grandpa Straw, a wounded veteran of World War II, on the brink of retirement, and facing cancer, has lost the spirit of their tradition. When the family goes caroling, he stays home alone. And perhaps he wants it this way, where he does not have to face the season with all its promise of good tidings and joy. But when his family does not come back…
~ A story within a story, Hope of Home is a novel that Grandpa Straw has penned and gifted to his estranged grandson Marcus, written in the hope of helping him reunite with his family and bring him home…. Read more on Amazon.
A Brave New Heaven 