It’s good to be back. It’s even better to be missed. I love my job and I love working at Anselm House.

I spent the first hour sitting in the comfy chairs in our reception area waiting for someone to arrive with keys to my office. I must have dozed off. I heard a noise and opened my eyes to find Nate Wilson filling the doorway. He caught me up on his book tour news. Lord willing, one day we’ll send our authors out on book tours. By then, Nate will have been on so many he’ll be able to tell us how it’s done.

So we’re all back behind our desks. God is gracious for bringing us home safely. Let the laughter begin!

…you might not have known. Not a week goes by where I don’t ship some books to good ol’ Amazon.com. On a weekly basis we replenish the stock at both their warehouses. The one thing most folks don’t know however is that many of our books have to have ISBN stickers applied to them to be in compliance with current publishing rules (or something like that) before we ship them off. So every week, the ritual begins first by taking all the ordered books off the shelf, and second by carefully making sure that the non-compliant ones get a nice little sticker on the inside and another on the outside. And that’s something you might not have known.

Weakness Is the New Strength

The apostle Paul was a polarizing figure. You either really loved him, or you really didn’t. Not only was this the case in his day, it remains the case down to the present. “Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ . . .” (2 Cor. 11:1-33).

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