Embrace Scripture as Present, Available, and Relevant In most of my books and a lot of my blog posts I write about the Bible in present tense. This is an intentional effort to remind us that the Bible is not only an ancient text but also one that’s present, available, and relevant to us today. […]
The Topics Covered in Peter DeHaan’s Posts For several years I’ve used a blogging schedule to guide what I post and when. Though this helps me greatly, I’ve never shared this information, so it doesn’t help you, the people who read my posts, Here are the topics covered in my blog posting schedule: Sunday: Christian […]
One Outlet Provides Worldwide Access Peter DeHaan announced that all his titles are now available on Smashwords. Smashwords is an international seller of e-books around the world, available in over 200 countries. Smashwords joins other leading online stores, such as Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, and Kobo, along with a host of […]
Study Scripture and Then Use Other Resources as Needed My book Jesus’s Broken Church was about a decade in the making, perhaps longer—maybe even a lifetime. When I sensed something wasn’t right with how today’s church functioned, I begin praying and searching for answers. Over time, piece by piece, God’s Holy Spirit revealed the answers […]
We are One Through Jesus, Neither Male nor Female When God prompted me to write about the women in the Bible, I was excited and began work on it immediately. Much of my life, it seems, had brought me to the place to explore the amazing women found throughout the pages of Scripture. In short, […]
Aligning with Like-Minded Peers Can Propel You Forward on Your Christian Walk A mastermind group is a peer-to-peer mentoring alliance where members work together to help one another solve problems, overcome roadblocks, and move forward. I’m part of two author mastermind groups. In them we encourage and support each other as writers, propelling us forward […]
Peter DeHaan’s haiku, “Why I Write,” was selected as a finalist for the literary publication Imagine This! An ArtPrize Anthology. But you don’t need to buy the book to read it. Here is Peter’s award-winning poem: Why I Write Linking letters andwielding words to create artfor God, my patron The anthology adds the written word as […]
I have had a lifelong affection with words. An avid reader of fiction as a child and teenager gave way to becoming a student of nonfiction as an adult. Along with that goes forty years of random writing experience and two decades as a magazine publisher. It should come as little surprise then, that I […]
It’s important to set goals, both for our work and for our self. Goals Move Us Forward Without goals, it’s easy to drift from day to day, week to week, month to month, and year to year—and nothing really changes. One of my goals is to attend two writing conferences each year. This helps grow […]
A Yearlong Journey Encountering God, His Church, and Our Common Faith Visit fifty-two churches in a year? Am I crazy? Maybe. My wife and I spent a year visiting churches, a different Christian church every Sunday. This book is our story. I’m sure we visited a church just like yours. And wow, did we learn […]