It is early September 2025. My last post was months ago. I had planned to post weekly, and will get to that pace sometime in the future.
I was working a full time job while getting these books edited, and the covers designed. Still I was a full time husband, father and grand father, and even a great grandfather to at least five, so there just weren’t enough hours in the day. I let a lot of my plans fall to the side. Oh, being old and getting up at 4:30am, I found myself needing a nap every evening once I got home so there was that time robber to be dealt with every day too. On July 3rd, they presented me my retirement recognition at work since it was the last official day after turning in my two week notice. Then I was able too push the publications to completion and catch up on a bunch of other tasks. Things like fixing the lawn mower, replacing a hot water heater, repairing the electric seat in wife’s car, and other jobs like that.
I am going to try make a post here at least once a month, and work up to once a week. As many of you have already figured out by checking out various pages on this site, I think Christian leadership since the invention of mass media, has allowed themselves to focus on ever increasing the group size of their followers. Large audiences available with TV and radio and social media. Opportunity to expand everywhere and sometimes grow into mega churches. Even sincere and innocent leadership in denominations and nondenominational locations are trying to grow in size to immense crowds. However in the process, they have all fallen prey to greed for fame, greed for power, greed for money that comes when your audience is 100 thousand instead of just 100. If people average just one dollar per week in donations, it is pretty clear to see the money advantage of having a huge following vs a tiny group of followers. And the hero worship factor becomes pretty evident as well. The amount of temptation for corruption that these leaders innocently face just fades away when they say they are ‘reaching as many as they can for GOD.’ They are willing to sacrifice three personal relationships that would lead to salvations if they can reach an audience of 3,000 instead, which precludes any chance of personal relationships with anyone in attendance.
That’s enough time on that soapbox.
On a different soapbox now. Search algorithms are just programming. They use words to trigger what will be shown to the person searching. And yes, the bias of any programmer, or company paying the salary of said programmer, will show through. Most of those companies give results favored by the advertisers paying them. Other results will often show bias of powerful political opinions favored by the programmer or the company paying their salary. As a rule, tech companies and those programmers educated in modern day universities lean away from things of true Christianity. Yes, they will present stuff people can buy, especially if an advertiser is paying the tech company to market to Christians. Other than that, they would all prefer to show what they want the searcher to see, not necessarily what the searcher truly wants to see.
For a test a while back, I tried searching for some Christian books and other Christian items university educated people might dislike. To my disappointment, often the item I specifically searched for showed up on the third page or even farther back in the links provided. So I decided to use a gimmick. I put my first name at the end of the book titles I write. That way, unless someone specifically programs an algorithm to ignore my name, the result should show up at least once on the first page of results. I’ve tested and so far they do. No, I’m not that arrogant or narcissistic that there is any belief I have special value in GOD’s opinion. You are more important than I am. This is better addressed in each book as well. Moving on now.
The first two books were published to Amazon about the last ten days of August. The inspiration was to release the second book first, so when the first hit the public they had somewhere to go for follow up if they wanted.
About the books:
The first book, Why I Hate GOD, by David, is about pain, anger and bitterness, and the hate they can grow into. That’s how it opens. It moves on to a possible solution to these powerful and negative emotions, and many other of life’s complexities. Chapter one is titled Angry, and is only half a page long. The test readers though, once they started that page, none could quit the story until they got through that whole part of the book. Why I Hate GOD, by David is released in paperback and ebook, but also at this time you can read it free if you have an account with Kindle Unlimited. The horrible floods hit central Texas while both were out for their final edit. This coincides with the loss of life I personally experienced five years earlier that made it possible for me to write this particular book.
The second book, Easy Foundations for Christian Living in This Century, by David is the follow up book. People that read the first might find themselves wanting more information and this one gives that next step of information on Christian living. This book also points out the flaw most long time Christians blindly have within themselves, in trusting things others taught them without ever questioning GOD if those beliefs possibly have mistakes in them. It is available in paperback and ebook. I want anyone using other services than just Amazon to also be able to get the ebook so it is not listed on the Kindle Unlimited. KU is reserved to Amazon only eBooks and restricted from other ebook services. I expect that at some point the first book will be removed from KU.
Do me a favor. Please learn everything you can before making a purchase. Review the description wherever you choose to get the books. Read the back cover that you can see right there on the screen before making your decision. If there are any reviews, read them. If there are none, please come back and leave one. If the books are crap, warn other readers not to get them. If you found value in them, please explain how they helped you or how they “fit” into your life. I am not trying to sell anyone nor manipulate anyone into getting them for my reasons. Only get one or both if you feel moved to after you find out as much as you can about them
The series is called, The Sometimes Difficult Joyride of Christianity. The current plan is for eight titles in that series, but it may be pared down some. For sure there will be at least four. The third book in the series is about half written and revolves around the verse, Hebrews 9:27. I will paraphrase it here; It is appointed for each one of us to die sooner or later, after that we are scheduled to go before the Judge.
I am working on a sign up form (I will make this a link when the form is working), for anyone that wants to be notified when new titles are released. Having been on the inside of marketing on the Internet for well over ten years, I am very hesitant to sending out a bunch of emails just because people trusted me with their email address. This particular list, if I ever push it into existence, will just be triggered, once a book is available for purchase. There will be links to where the description and back cover can be seen.
DISCLAIMER
I remind everyone in this disclaimer. Sellers are quick to reward anyone that sends a consumer to their website. They like providing a small commission to those that could have sent the customer to some other website. That being said, if you sign up for Kindle Unlimited through links on this page, or make any qualifying purchases as a result of you visiting this page, I may earn something. It won’t cost you any more, nor can I make any kind of price break for you, but I have to acknowledge this possibility that I may earn money because of your activity. The two books I authored, I am linking but will make no promotional commissions through those links. However I may make royalties because I am the actual author. Again, there is no extra cost to you, but neither can I create discount prices for people just because they go through those links either.