I updated my book list, if anyone is interested in checking them out - daviscrossing.com/bookindex.…

Grok is very helpful with proofreading a manuscript, but when I finished, I found it odd and a bit off when Grok said, "Take care, and God bless!" Am I alone in thinking that's weird for an AI engine to write?

This weekend, I will be at the FPEA Homeschool Convention in Orlando, FL, speaking and selling books. Check it out here: fpea.com/events/8912/2026-ho…

The test results are in. My wife is now 10 years cancer free. After what she went through ten years ago, we are truly thankful for this good news.

Biblical atonement is really very simple. Believers died with Jesus and were raised to new life with Him. We are no longer the sinful person we were before, so God forgave us. For he who has died is justified from sin. (Romans 6:7)

The Final Flames, book #4 in the Dragons of Camelot series, is now available on Amazon: Paperback - amazon.com/dp/1946253855 Kindle - amazon.com/gp/product/B0GX2W… Paperback on my website - theauthorschair.com/shopping…

On this Resurrection Day, I am joyful, as always, for the greatest event in history, the defeat of death and the sure hope of our own resurrections someday. Yet, I am saddened by the fact that most people in Christendom are not aware that the resurrection has dramatic effects now on those who are truly born again. As the Bible teaches: Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? Rom 6:2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Rom 6:3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Rom 6:4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. Rom 6:5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, Rom 6:6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; Rom 6:7 for he who has died is freed from sin. Nearly all churches teach that there is no real freedom from sin until we die. What a terrible tragedy that people are told the opposite of the gospel, that they must accept slavery to sin and reject freedom from sin. Living free from sin is not only possible; it is normal and expected. And it is a glorious reality. Let us all walk in that reality, the newness of life that is in the here and now. Thanks be to God!

Dear readers, I have new information about the Dragons of Camelot series, four books set in the Dragons in our Midst story world. Tyndale published the first two books—The Sacred Scales and The Memory Stone—and did a beautiful job bringing them to life. This series is firmly attached to Dragons in our Midst as a prequel that can be read before or after any of the other series, a great choice for readers 8 years old and up. Unfortunately, my partnership with Tyndale regarding this series ended before books 3 and 4 could be released. I have now republished the books under my own imprint with new covers that I hope you'll love as much as the originals. The first two stories are exactly the same as the Tyndale versions with one small exception. The Memory Stone is now titled The Memory Mirror, and all references in the story to the "memory stone" now say the "memory mirror." This allows all four titles to share the same alliterative pattern (Sacred Scales, Memory Mirror, Portal Puzzles, Final Flames) while keeping the stories unchanged. Book 3 (The Portal Puzzles) is available now on Amazon, and I'm putting the finishing touches on Book 4 (The Final Flames) so that the complete quartet can finally be read from start to finish, probably sometime in April. You can order the books at Amazon by clicking on the following link: amazon.com/dp/B0GRWTXTSX If you want to order the books from me, here is the link: theauthorschair.com/shopping… At the moment, all four books are on backorder at my site, but I will have copies soon, probably in the next couple of weeks. I am grateful to Tyndale for their work on the early books and even more grateful to you—the readers—who are enjoying the adventures with Hawk, Sabina, Clefspeare, and the world of Camelot. Thank you for your patience and your love of these stories. With gratitude, Bryan Davis

From April 9 to 11, I will be at the Great Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati, OH, speaking and also selling books at my vendor booth. I hope some of you can come by and chat. Here is a link for more info - greathomeschoolconventions.c…

"Even babes in Christ are so far perfect as not to commit sin." - John Wesley (A Plain Account of Christian Perfection)

From "Man - The Dwelling Place of God" by A.W. Tozer, Chapter 39: "The Saint Must Walk Alone" The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate world. His God-given instincts cry out for companionship with others of his kind, others who can understand his longings, his aspirations, his absorption in the love of Christ; and because within his circle of friends there are so few who share his inner experiences he is forced to walk alone. The unsatisfied longings of the prophets for human understanding caused them to cry out in their complaint, and even our Lord Himself suffered in the same way. The man [or woman] who has passed on into the divine Presence in actual inner experience will not find many who understand him. He finds few who care to talk about that which is the supreme object of his interest, so he is often silent and preoccupied in the midst of noisy religious shoptalk. For this he earns the reputation of being dull and over-serious, so he is avoided and the gulf between him and society widens. He searches for friends upon whose garments he can detect the smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces, and finding few or none he, like Mary of old, keeps these things in his heart. It is this very loneliness that throws him back upon God. His inability to find human companionship drives him to seek in God what he can find nowhere else.

I finished a rough draft of the first book in a new series, an upper middle grade multiverse adventure. Now for a lot of editing.

The church has been so corrupted by Augustinian falsehoods that it doesn't remotely resemble the spotless bride of Christ. The idea of real holiness is laughed at, not even considered, though the Bible teaches it plainly.

The following verse is likely familiar to many of you, and it has been on my mind a lot: And the seed in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word in an honest and good heart, and hold it fast, and bear fruit with perseverance. (Luke 8:15) Notice Jesus’ description of the hearts of the people who hear the word and hold it fast. They are honest and good. I highlight that description because of how many people in the church today describe the hearts of believers, that they still have evil or dark hearts, that their hearts can’t be trusted. Somehow sin still lurks within and sometimes (or even frequently) wins the battle in making choices. This false accusation against the hearts of believers is at the root of nearly every problem in the church today. As Christians, we are cleansed from all sin (1 John 1:7), we have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires (Galatians 5:24), and we have had the flesh removed from our hearts (Colossians 2:11). I can’t think any good reason why someone would want to believe the opposite of what Scripture teaches. The heart of a true believer is not evil. It is holy, righteous, and good. The prophet Jeremiah identified the same problem in Israel that we have in the church today. He wept over their sin and their excuses for sin, he warned them about the wrath to come, and his description of the ills of his people is a striking mirror of our church culture. Hear Jeremiah’s word from God: “Behold, you are trusting in deceptive words to no avail. Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and offer sacrifices to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known, then come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—that you may do all these abominations? Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” declares the Lord. (Jeremiah 7:8-11) Jeremiah’s lament echoes today. It is a profound indictment against a church that should have departed from the ways of sinful Israel. With the benefit of the new covenant, the church ought to be a spotless bride. Instead, for the most part, it is a sin-stained harlot that excuses its daily trysts with lame appeals to an imagined handicap—an evil heart that has not been cleansed. We see this constantly in most of today’s churches. People claim to be Christians, yet they sin over and over again, only to come into the sanctuary and claim deliverance because of a false notion that God doesn’t see their sin or he sees only Jesus. They claim that they still have this “flesh” within that crops up from time to time, that somehow Jesus hasn’t completed the cleansing that he promised. They are wrong about real Christians, and this is not merely a doctrinal lapse. Their error will lead many into everlasting destruction. I am thankful for reality, that true Christians are cleansed completely, and we can walk in newness of life.

Medi-Share is a Christian healthcare cost sharing group. All adult members are required to profess a statement of faith, which includes: "I believe in the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit, that He performs the miracle of new birth in an unbeliever and indwells believers, enabling them to live a godly life." Does anyone else see the huge problem in this sentence? medishare.com/medi-share-gui…

"Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ." (1 Corinthians 11:1) I hope we can all say this in spirit and in reality.

As frustrating as it can be to work with traditional publishers, I still prefer that route over the alternatives. Getting books to people I can't reach is worth more to me than a higher profit margin per copy. And I have been put through the wringer by traditional publishers. It can be terrible.

I have been thinking a lot about the most popular version of how the sacrifice of Jesus saves believers. It goes something like this: We are all sinners, and we deserve to be punished for our sins. That punishment includes death and eternal damnation. God sent his Son to die on the cross to accept that punishment in our place, thereby appeasing God’s wrath so that God would not punish us. God, therefore, credits us with the righteousness of Christ so that when He looks at us, He sees the righteousness of Christ, and He considers us and declares us to be holy and no longer of His wrath, even though we aren't truly holy in reality. This is often called Penal Substitution Atonement, PSA for short. It is often described with phrases like "Jesus paid the penalty (or the debt) for our sin," or "Jesus took the punishment for our sin," or God "poured out the wrath we deserved on Jesus instead of on us." It’s difficult for me to imagine a more absurd view of biblical salvation. It manufactures a God who must punish, who cannot cleanse, and who makes declarations that are not true. There is nothing in the Bible that says Jesus paid the penalty for our sin or was punished for our sin. The only passage that comes close is in Isaiah 53: 4-11 Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed. All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth. By oppression and judgment He was taken away; And as for His generation, who considered That He was cut off out of the land of the living For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due? His grave was assigned with wicked men, Yet He was with a rich man in His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was there any deceit in His mouth. But the LORD was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand. As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied; By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, As He will bear their iniquities. This passage says that He bore our iniquities, but it doesn’t say that God *punished* Him in our place. Some PSA adherents point to, “Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God,” and “the Lord was pleased to crush Him.” Yet, although God put Jesus in that place and made sure that He suffered, that doesn’t mean that the crushing was a punishment. The Apostle Paul clearly laid out what was going on: Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? Romans 6:2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Romans 6:3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Romans 6:4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. Romans 6:5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, Romans 6:6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; Romans 6:7 for he who has died is freed (justified) from sin. Jesus died by God the Father’s hand (directly or indirectly) so that we could die with Him, so that our old self would be crucified and we could be resurrected to a new life. Since the person who sinned died, and the new person is no longer a sinner, we receive forgiveness. No one needs to be punished. God forgives. He doesn’t need to exert His wrath on anyone. Verse 7 is the key, and unfortunately, most translations get it wrong. “He who has died is justified from sin (not freed in the Greek).” The sinner is dead. The new man receives forgiveness for his actions in his old life. He is justified in reality, not by a false declaration. Can you imagine an earthly scenario that’s similar to PSA? Let’s say a young man throws a rock at a house and intentionally breaks a window. The man of the house sees the act and comes out in a rage. The young man, now fearful, falls on his knees and asks to be forgiven. The homeowner then says, “No need to punish you. I’m going to whack my son instead. He’s a good boy, and doesn’t deserve it, but he volunteered to take the punishment for anyone who crosses me. So, from now on, whenever I look at you, I’ll think of him. I declare that you are righteous. You’re free to go.” That would be an insane response. It's the old whipping-boy concept. Yet, it is very similar to PSA. Someone has to be punished for the crime, not the person who deserves it but instead someone who doesn’t. This isn’t forgiveness. This is just appeasing the wrath of an unforgiving man who would rather beat up an innocent person than to find a way to cleanse the perpetrator. Under PSA, the perpetrator remains a violator for the rest of his life, never fully becoming an obedient person. He might not break windows as often as he did before, but he will go on being a violator until death. He doesn’t ever truly and fully repent. Under real, biblical atonement, the perpetrator is cleansed of all sin and unrighteousness. His old self has died, and he has risen to a new life. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Biblical atonement magnifies the grace and mercy of a God who loves us and wants to make us holy. PSA sullies God by sketching Him as a unforgiving tyrant who punishes the innocent and rewards the guilty, unable to make the sinner truly righteous, a God who lies about the reality of an uncleansed heart. Let us all go forward with purified hearts to live out the true gospel that includes real atonement, shining a light so that others can see the miraculous cleansing that God has performed within us.

Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ. (1 Corinthians 11:1)

An interview with me about my Dragons of Camelot series - lauriechristine.com/dragons-…