Author: Chris G Thelen

I’ve been a writer all my life. Growing up on a farm, I dreamed up all kinds of stories as I spent hours in the fields and the barn. When I graduated from high school, I studied journalism in college and began my career as a writer in advertising. Eventually I made my way into corporate communications before retiring a few years ago. Now I am writing for myself—dabbling in blogging and working on self-publishing that novel that’s been in my head for quite a few years. Through it all, I have thoroughly enjoyed the creative process and using words to create stories.

Christmas Priorities: An Immediate response to Good News

Good news often requires an immediate response. When God announces Good News to you in the middle of the night, how do you respond?

Christmas Priorities: Signs of Life

We don’t know what they had planned for the day when they first spotted something unique in the sky. What we do know is that the magi took note of it and pursued the meaning behind it. They embarked on a journey to Jerusalem to see for themselves if the sign they had seen marked […]

Sunday Praise

After coming into the house they saw the Child with Mary His mother; and they fell to the ground and worshiped Him. Then, opening their treasures, they presented to Him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. – Matthew 2:11, NASB

Christmas Priorities: When God Upends Your Plans

What happens when all your plans for the day are upended by unforeseen events? Do you look for how God might be diverting you toward His plan for the day?

Loving Difficult People

Without the Spirit of God working in us, it is challenging to love difficult people in our life. It’s hard to turn the other cheek instead of getting revenge.

Sunday praise

And Mary said: “My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed, for the Mighty One has done great things for me—holy is his name. His mercy extends to those […]

Books Receive Recognition

This week I learned that my books, Islands of Deception and Race for Redemption, were selected as Christian Indie Award Finalists in the Mystery/Suspense category by the Christian Indie Publishers Association. The winners will be announced in March at the Blue Lake Christian Writers Conference near Destin Florida. I am grateful for all the support […]

A Loving Desire for the Hardened Heart

I want them to have the same peace in Christ that I have in my life. Yet no matter how much I try, how much I pray for them, it seems their hardened hearts will not budge. Sometimes I feel I am the barrier to them seeing Jesus as the way to salvation.

God is in the Minutiae

There are times you may feel like you don’t have a role to play in your worship community or that what you do for the Lord is insignificant in the scheme of things. Be assured that every task given by God is important in His Kingdom no matter how small it may seem to you. […]

Publishing Schedule

The regular publication schedule of Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday 6 a.m. continues this month, but I want to highlight a Christmas series that will post on December 11, 16, 18 and 23. The series “Christmas Priorities” will focus on how people at the time of Jesus’ birth shifted their priorities to focus on the new […]