Take your Time Sermons

Category: Fiction

  • A Christmas Adventure

    A Christmas Adventure

    (Fiction) Written for my granddaughter, the story follows Joe, Mary and Chloe through a most unusual Christmas Eve.

  • Purpose Lost Ch. 4: The Security Guard

    Purpose Lost Ch. 4: The Security Guard

    (Fiction) The fourth chapter in the purpose lost series returns to the day when Stephanie Holmes was in a psychiatric hospital (chapter 1). The security guard, Dave, is called when Stephanie’s parents become unruly. Dave has an unusual secret.

  • That Wretched Christianity

    That Wretched Christianity

    (Fiction) Jesus predicted persecution for his followers and it comes in many forms. In this fictional story, a college student must confront her roommate’s hostility toward her faith. In an interesting twist, she defends it with logic.

  • Seeking Mercy

    Seeking Mercy

    (Fiction) When forgiveness is hard to find either from the world or yourself, Jesus will forgive. He longs to forgive and make things right. In this story, Juliann Masterson lives in the absence of that and the consequences on her life are revealed.

  • Purpose Lost Ch. 3: The Classroom Visit

    Purpose Lost Ch. 3: The Classroom Visit

    (Fiction) The third chapter of the purpose lost series finds a young Steve Johnson (chapter 1) in a college class on religion. His professor believes God cannot be both good and all-powerful if evil exists in the world. As he attempts to convince his class that God doesn’t exist, he confronts a visitor who makes…

  • Purpose Lost Ch. 2: The Letter

    Purpose Lost Ch. 2: The Letter

    (Fiction) In this second chapter of the Purpose Lost series, the life situation leading up to the suicide attempt by Stephanie Holmes (Chapter 1) is told through the eyes of her brother Mark. We meet for the first time the mother of Dr. Steve Johnson, who plays a prominent role in Chapter 3 (The Classroom…

  • The Painful Cost of Sacrifice

    The Painful Cost of Sacrifice

    (Fiction) A neighborhood story of unthinkable sacrifice.

  • Purpose Lost Ch. 1: Stephanie

    Purpose Lost Ch. 1: Stephanie

    (Fiction) A story of a young woman’s struggle with feeling lost in a secular world.