Bryan Davis

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

@rootcausesleuth He is risen, indeed!

Christ is risen!

Yes, I would. Reactions tend to occur in the following order: Involuntary physical reaction Voluntary physical reaction Speech (whether dialogue or interior monologue) Something like "My mouth dropped open" would be involuntary physical reaction, which would likely occur before the thought. If we're inside the character at the moment, we would witness that action before the thought. It also serves to bring focus back to the character. This is not a hard-and-fast writing rule. It's just my suggestion to keep POV intimacy strong and avoid a jarring transition.

@BryanDavisAuth @uncle_deluge But in first-person? You'd delay an impact point to reintroduce a character whose head we're already inside? I'd find that pretty self-conscious.

This writing pisses me off

When the focus is not on the point-of-view character, as in this case, it's on the other speaker immediately before the interior monologue, it's often a good idea to add a cue to bring the reader back to the POV character. For example: My mouth dropped open. Holy cow! Rocky is ... I'm not crazy about that one. It's just an example. I would try to think of a better one.

@BryanDavisAuth @uncle_deluge "Holy cow" is direct interior monologue. What revision would you suggest?

@ImJustH27192392 You're right. I was just giving a suggestion that might make it less jarring.

@BryanDavisAuth I get what you're saying, but it does only say the narrator couldn't speak for a moment. Them speaking implies that moment has passed.

Had me in the first half, lost me so hard at the end LMAO if you constantly use indicators after a quote, your readers will hate you

@Damonashu @uncle_deluge That's a fair and rational pushback. I agree that a speaker tag is not warranted, but a visual dialogue beat before he speaks would make it less jarring. As it stands, he goes directly from not being able to speak to speaking.

@BryanDavisAuth @uncle_deluge Pushing back on that speech indicator cause it's probably obvious with context.

@ChrisCoffee @everettmjr That is also my favorite Greek word!

@everettmjr The post would be disingenuous if said Hebrew because I didn’t take Hebrew classes. The word for know ‘γινώσκω’ because it depicts a deep relationship with God. It’s more than knowledge but like a personal relationship of knowing someone.

None of you know this about me, but I studied Religion in college, learned Koine Greek, and spent about 5 years of my life really wrestling what to believe spiritually at a high academic level. My findings: You have to choose to have faith. There is no conclusive proving God's existence, there is no "gotcha" science, there is no IQ level that makes people lean one way or the other, everything you think you have in the bag to believe or not believe has nuance, and AI has made that more clear than ever. I landed on the choice to believe that a Jewish man lived ~2000 years ago and proclaimed to be the Messiah that Israel was waiting on, and they murdered him for the claims. I choose to believe that 3 days after his murder he proved to not 1, not 2, but over 500 people that he had the power to conquer death. I choose to believe that within 20-30 years of this event, when oral was the primary way to pass down information, they started aggressively documenting it. Every year during the time of all the egg hunts, bunnies, chocolate, and things that Easter has become about, I choose to remember what happened during Passover. I understand not everyone shares this belief. Some may think I'm lower in intelligence for it, some might look up to me for speaking what they're thinking, some might find another reason not to like me. The only thing that matters, in my opinion, is that we can have these open dialogues. I have nearly 100k followers across platforms now. Next year I might have 1M or I might go off the grid and you never hear from me again. I'd be disappointed with myself if I wasn't real with you. If we can't share real thoughts, then what are we really doing here.

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/produ… 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

@babybeginner The perpetrator is at large ... and getting larger.

Some days you can’t love social media enough. This is one of those days. It began like this. Someone stole 12 tons of KitKats. And then the replies started coming in. Scroll down.

@CalvinistFather And never mind that "Jacob I loved ..." was not part of the prophecy given to Rebekah, which means that it was not stated before Jacob and Esau were born.

IMPORTANT message for fellow CALVINISTS!!! In Rom 9 don't let the fact that the individual Esau NEVER SERVED the individual Jacob... ...stop you from DEMANDING the prophecy applies to the INDIVIDUALS and not the NATIONS... ...even while the NATION EDOM DID SERVE ISRAEL (David)

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.com/locations/ohio

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

@rootcausesleuth It seems to me that "obey" in the context is the same as the obedience that Jesus learned in verse 8.

Jesus is the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him!

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.

@Rick74005811 @TodAshby Ridiculous. Of course it was sarcasm. And now you're resorting to ad hominem, charging me with denying God's sovereignty. I won't be responding to you again.

@BryanDavisAuth @TodAshby It was not sarcasm - if you are right, it is a total miscarriage of Justice for God almighty to allow thousands of wrong translations. I will believe God and His sovereign nature to give His word correctly through his servants. You deny His sovereignty.

“Those whom He predestined He also called…” Which comes first, the predestination or the calling?

@Rick74005811 @TodAshby Sarcasm doesn't help. "and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified." Romans 8:30 NASB1995 blueletterbible.org/lexicon/g3778/… The word is "these" not "those."

@BryanDavisAuth @TodAshby Too bad you were not around to correct the thousands of brilliant linguist and biblical theologians who have translated it "those" for centuries.

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.

@Toneskeee Simple. Christians don't sin.

How do you reconcile this? “Everyone who does sin also does lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. And you know that He was manifested in order to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin. No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or has come to know Him.” 1 John 3:4-6 LSB