Writers' Edge Newsletter

All Things, Everywhere

Is there a purpose for everything? Is there meaning to life? The Bible reveals that God is deeply concerned with our knowing and living the answer to these questions. One key lies in understanding how God uses distinction to bring meaning to everything – and this takes us back to His very nature. All Things, Everywhere illuminates the ways in which God lovingly fashions and personally delivers what we deeply need – a life lived in the answers to these big questions.

Anchored in Faith: Raising Christian Children in a World That Pulls Them Away

Christian parents today are swimming upstream in a current unlike anything previous generations faced. Teen anxiety and depression have more than doubled since 2010. Children are encountering gender and sexuality frameworks in school and online that directly challenge a biblical worldview. Social media is rewiring the developing brain in ways that make spiritual formation harder, not easier.

Anchored in Faith is the clinically-grounded, biblically-rooted field guide for Christian parents navigating this terrain. Written by a former licensed clinical social worker with experience alongside families in crisis — and as a man of deep Christian faith who lived through his own decade of doubt and return — it brings together what the clinical research actually says and what the Christian faith has to offer as the most powerful protective factor available.

The book covers the mental health crisis facing this generation, social media and the developing brain, sexuality and gender handled with both conviction and compassion, and strategies for building a home that keeps faith alive. Every chapter names the threat clearly and ends with tools the parent can actually use. It opens: “You are not failing.” And it stays in that register throughout.

Drifting: Returning to the Course God Set for Your Life

Have you ever looked up and realized the life you’re living looks nothing like the one God once called you to? In Drifting, the subject of drifting off God’s intended course for your life.  In this book, we explore one of the most quietly devastating experiences in the Christian walk—the slow, almost imperceptible slide away from God’s purpose for your life.

Drawing on the navigation metaphor of Hebrews 2:1, I show that spiritual drift rarely announces itself. It sneaks in through busyness, complacency, unresolved pain, and the accumulated weight of small compromises. Using vivid illustrations from aviation, sailing, and the Apollo 13 mission alongside timeless stories of David, Peter, Jonah, and Solomon, he maps the currents that pull believers off course — and the God who never stops calling them back.

But Drifting is not a book about shame. It is a book about return. With the compassion of a pastor and the precision of a scholar, I offer a practical, grace-rooted path back to God’s original design for your life. Whether you’ve wandered for years or simply feel the pull beginning, this book reminds you of a powerful truth: your calling is irrevocable, the path is still there, and you are never too far gone to come home.

At the end of each chapter, I offer questions for reflection, which would be very helpful to a group leader to advance discussion and prayer.

People Jesus Met

People Jesus Met by Lon Solomon is a compelling, application-driven exploration of the personal encounters between Jesus Christ and individuals throughout the Gospels. Rather than simply retelling familiar biblical narratives, Solomon draws out the deeper spiritual dynamics behind each interaction, revealing how these ancient conversations speak directly to modern lives.

Each chapter focuses on a different individual—such as Nicodemus, The Samaritan Woman, and Zacchaeus—highlighting the personal struggles, motivations, and barriers that shaped their response to Jesus. Through these portraits, Solomon identifies universal human issues such as pride, doubt, materialism, and spiritual emptiness, showing how each person’s encounter with Christ demanded a decision.

Written in Solomon’s signature style—clear, structured, and intensely practical—the book consistently moves from biblical exposition to personal application, challenging readers to examine their own lives. His central question, “So what?”, drives each chapter toward transformation, not just understanding.

Ultimately, People Jesus Met presents a powerful message: every person who encounters Jesus must respond, and that response has eternal significance. By inviting readers to see themselves in the lives of those Jesus met, Solomon turns familiar Scripture into a mirror for self-examination and a call to wholehearted faith.

Seasons of the Soul: Seeing His faithfulness, promises and beauty with every season

This devotional invites readers to see their lives through the lens of spiritual seasons, weaving together agricultural imagery, biblical parables, and Scripture. In a culture that highlights productivity, instant gratification and visual progress, this devotional offers a perspective shift – from striving to seeking, from perfection to growth and from productivity to intentionality.  Drawing from passages like Ecclesiastes 3:11 and stories such as the Parable of the Sower and Jesus’s intentional rhythms of rest, readers will come to understand the purpose behind every season and time to plant, bloom, be pruned or rest.  Through guided reflections, prayers, and seasonal themes, readers are encouraged to experience all the seasons and to embrace the blessings and opportunities with each one. By showing how life is a seasonal journey rather than a linear path, this devotional calls disciples to a posture of steady faithfulness: trusting His timing, seeking His presence, and embracing each season with expectant hearts and open hands. Our faith grows through each season and this devotional empowers readers to embrace the gifts in each one. With the author’s background in agriculture, readers will have a fresh perspective into the related parables and scriptures that the Bible has for us today.

Preparing the Sower and the Soil: Cultivating Hearts, Minds, and Followers of Jesus for Gospel Fruitfulness

Preparing the Sower and the Soil: Cultivating Hearts, Minds, and Followers of Jesus for Gospel Fruitfulness reframes Christian ministry by recovering a truth often overlooked in modern evangelism: people rarely receive the Gospel in a vacuum. Every person hears truth through the “soil” of their own story—shaped by worldview, wounds, cultural narratives, habits of the heart, and lived experience. Drawing from Scripture, spiritual formation, cross‑cultural ministry, and educational theory, this book offers a practical and theological framework for preparing both the messenger and the hearer.

Rather than relying on proclamation alone, the book explores how formation, discernment, and relational wisdom create the conditions for the Gospel to take root. Through concepts such as soil testing, questioning, cultural intelligence, emotional maturity, and patient presence, readers learn how to engage others with humility, curiosity, and spiritual attentiveness. Real-life stories and biblical examples illustrate how God often works long before a word is spoken.

Accessible and deeply reflective, Preparing the Sower and the Soil equips pastors, teachers, missionaries, and everyday Christians to cultivate environments where truth can be heard, received, and transformed into lasting fruit.

Set Apart, Still Becoming: Growing into a Godly Woman in a Loud, Confusing World

Set Apart, Still Becoming: Growing into a Godly Woman in a Loud, Confusing World is a guided prayer and journaling workbook for teenage girls navigating faith, identity, relationships, and cultural pressure in today’s world. Written from a warm “big sister” perspective, this book offers readers a compassionate and Scripture-rooted space to process the emotional challenges of growing up in a culture that often glorifies promiscuity, self-centeredness, and constant validation.

Rather than approaching topics like purity, relationships, insecurity, and peer pressure with shame or rigid perfectionism, Set Apart, Still Becoming speaks honestly and gently to girls who desire to follow God while still figuring out who they are becoming. Through extended reflections, guided prayers, journaling prompts, and real-life scenarios, readers are encouraged to pursue holiness as a process of growth and closeness with God rather than performance.

Structured as an eight-week devotional workbook, this project reminds teen girls that they are allowed to grow slowly, ask difficult questions, set healthy boundaries, and pursue faithfulness with grace in a loud and confusing world.

Whispers To Her Soul: A Christian Devotional for Women to Hear God’s Voice — Finding Strength, Hope And Purpose Through God’s Word

Have you ever felt invisible? Like you’re carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders, and no one truly sees how close you are to falling apart? Whispers to Her Soul was written for that woman, for you.

Through thirty gentle devotions drawn straight from God’s Word, this book invites you to pause, breathe, and listen. Not for grand signs or dramatic moments, but for the quiet, tender whispers of a God who sees you, knows you, and loves you deeply, exactly as you are.

From finding your identity in Christ, to walking through fear, healing from brokenness, and discovering your purpose, each chapter meets you right where you are. Every devotion includes a heartfelt prayer, reflective Soul Search questions, and key Scriptures to carry with you through your day.

Whether you are walking through a painful season, feeling lost in the demands of daily life, or simply longing to feel closer to God, this book is your reminder that you are never alone.

He is speaking. This is your invitation to listen.

The Journey to a Renewed Mind: How Changing the Way You Think Changes Everything

The Journey to a Renewed Mind invites readers on a transformative path toward healing, clarity, and deeper connection with God and others. Blending insights from cognitive behavioral therapy, personal narrative, developmental psychology, and Christian spiritual formation, David P. Mann, Ph.D., helps readers uncover the hidden beliefs and inner stories that shape emotions, relationships, and daily life. Through relatable examples, practical tools, and faith-centered reflection, this book demonstrates how distorted thinking patterns can be recognized, challenged, and renewed. Readers will learn how automatic thoughts, life scripts, core beliefs, and personal narratives develop over time—and how lasting change becomes possible through truth, grace, and intentional renewal of the mind. Compassionate, practical, and deeply hopeful, this book offers a roadmap for anyone longing to move from anxiety, shame, or relational struggle toward greater peace, emotional health, spiritual maturity, and renewed relationships.