Spark

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  Lord, today and every day, spark my writing; Make it electric. Inject it with life, and infuse it with flavor. Make my thoughts clear, my ideas sharp, my words strong, and their impact life-changing, in Jesus’ name, amen. Bob Hostetler is the author of fifty books, including The Bard and the Bible: A Shakespeare Devotional, and Don’t Check Your Brains at the Door (coauthored with Josh McDowell). He has won two Gold Medallion Awards, four Ohio Associated Press awards, and an Amy Foundation Award. He is the founding pastor of Cobblestone Community Church in Oxford, Ohio. He and his…

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Forgive My Little Efforts

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Bob Hostetler here, offering another prayer for writers: Father God Almighty, you inspired Moses, Samuel, and others to write when their best tools were papyrus and parchment, reed styli and ink made from crushed berries and plants. For millennia, your servants have recorded stirring and soaring works

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For Things Important to a Writer

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Bob Hostetler here, offering another prayer for writers: Abba, Father, Lord God, thank you that I can type so fast, that the internet makes research relatively easy (if dangerous), that I can work at home or in a coffee shop. Thank you that I can send manuscripts and galleys via email, that I can quickly search a document, that I can access, order, and download books online.

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A Writer’s “Take My Life”

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Take my life, and let it be consecrated, Lord, to Thee.Take my moments and my days; let them flow in ceaseless praise. Take my hands, and let them move at the impulse of Thy love. Take my intellect, and use every power as Thou shalt choose. Take my keyboard, and my screen; my desk and office chair, My pages, sentences, and words, my flittings here and there, My focus and my flow, my pacings up and down, My insecurities and fears, my grins, my groans, my frowns. 

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