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Victory for Loving God and Neighbor

April 22, 2019 By D.I. Telbat Leave a Comment

Dear Friends, the Telbat Team prays that you had a blessed Resurrection Remembrance Day with your family/friends! ~ You may have seen that my new novel, Dawn of Affliction, has been out for a couple of months. The book title reflects the theme. Affliction seems to harass the Caspertein family at every turn, but why is there also a sense of triumph by the hero, Levi Caspertein? Can we have that same sense of victory in the midst of our own chaotic lives? Interestingly, the way we love God and love our neighbor determines our sense of victory!

Convenient Love?

Many of us are familiar with the greatest Commandment that Jesus stressed in the Gospels: to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and strength. The second greatest Commandment is like the first: to love your neighbor as yourself. We were made to love, and our triumph in life must involve love.

Sometimes we think that loving God and loving our neighbor is a choice offered to us by Christ for when it’s most convenient for us. An honest person will admit that expressing love is not convenient in the middle of strife. Expressing love will never be convenient or natural as long as we think God intended it to be optional for us to express love to others.

Victory Rule #1: Don’t view love as optional only for convenient or comfortable moments.
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The Lost Key, a Short Story by D.I. Telbat

Dear Reading Friends, today we have a new short story for you, but first—some news! The COIL Legacy Collection is now in eBook format! And soon, it will be out in paperback as well! We’ve put together the three full-length novels—Distant Contact + Distant Front + Distant Harm—into one volume! You can read more about this endeavor in this past post. Read our other news after this story. I wrote this story for a creative writing class I teach and participate in. The assignment was to write a short story about a lost key. I hope it means something to you. See you on the next page!—David Telbat

The Lost Key

by D.I. Telbat

In the basement under a naked light bulb, Brody Taylor sat down on a stool and faced an old trunk. The trunk contained his dead brother’s few possessions. Brody picked up a tattered handkerchief.

His brother had died a poor but happy man at the age of eighty-three. Jake’s warmth had never faded, even in his old age. In a family who had known so much bitterness and greed early on, Jake’s presence had always been a ray of light, especially in the latter years. He would be missed.
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Research for Two Arizona Towns in Dawn of Affliction

Dear Friends, this is David Telbat. In my new novel, Dawn of Affliction, I used research of real towns and geography to tell the story of an epic journey across post-apocalyptic America. In every town, I show conflict and challenge—selfish society at its worst. Simultaneously, I share the contrast of God’s people expressing grace and mercy to those who deserve otherwise. Peach Springs and Cameron were two Arizona towns I used in the West.

Peach Springs, Arizona

This town was once on the beaten path for vehicles, but a new highway now sends drivers elsewhere to save time traveling through the desert. Because of this detour, the town almost became a ghost town, except it serves as the administrative base for the Hualapai Tribe.

In Dawn of Affliction, Book One of Last Dawn Trilogy, I show Peach Springs as a deserted town. Its meager population has relocated to Havasu Falls and the three other nearby canyon waterfalls. As I state in my Author Note inside the front pages of the novel, the terrible circumstances in this fictional future around these towns does not reflect the friendly people who live there now. The town and its geography are what I focus on, and its rugged location provides for a demanding and desperate conflict.
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D.I. Telbat Review of The Occupied by Craig Parshall

Dear Reading Friends, I have a book review for you today on a novel that has been added to my favorites list! I hope you enjoy this and maybe give the book a try as well.—David Telbat

The Occupied

Author: Craig Parshall
Review by D.I. Telbat
Genres: Christian Thriller, Spiritual Warfare, Good vs Evil, Detective Story
Rating: 5-stars
Find links to The Occupied on our Book Review Page here or below.

Have you ever wondered what spiritual warfare might look like if a human could SEE the demonic forces at play? Author Craig Parshall has given us a unique perspective in his book, The Occupied, a Trevor Black Novel. From the prologue through to the last page, I sat mesmerized by this story of a modern man who is given a special ability to sense demonic beings.

The Occupied is not your standard “demon hunter” type of storyline. This is a Christian author writing a serious and complex story about a subject that is often misunderstood,
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Book Focus: Thru Chaos, God’s Plan is still Intact!

Thank you for joining us, Reading Friends. This is David Telbat wishing you a wonderful Resurrection Remembrance this season! ~ Tragedy and chaos seem to rule our world. Morality and gender issues seem irreversibly confused. Greed and violence seem to go hand in hand. Few seem to have answers for the growing unrest and hopelessness across every country. It is my opinion that we are indeed in the Last Days—as the Bible refers to the time of upheaval leading up to Christ's return for His Church, and His eventual revelation of Himself before He rules on earth. This is why the Telbat Team writes for you: to remind you that through all of this fallen world's uncertainty, God's plan from eternity past is still intact. Nations will rise and fall, but Jesus our Savior will one day reveal Himself with justice and finality! The Focus of the Last
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More of David's Author Reflections

Feb 2019 Novel Update for D.I. Telbat

Welcome, Reading Friends! This is Dee today peeking from behind the screen to bring you David Telbat’s Feb 2019 novel update and publishing plans for the months ahead. So let’s go!

The COIL Legacy Collection

To start with, I’d like to tell you about our upcoming paperback getting close to being published! This has been big project for us but we are pleased to announce that as soon as the new cover is created mid-March by Streetlight Graphics, The COIL Legacy Collection will be out in paperback! And soon afterwards, we’ll have it in eBook format as well. If you have seen or read Distant Contact, and Distant Front, and Distant Harm, all three of them will now be in one single volume!

There’s a main reason why David wanted to create this single volume in paperback. He is involved in prison ministry, and when he wrote Distant Harm, he patterned some of the characters after a few strong believers that he has discipled inside the prison system. These men are excited that they could have a part in this endeavor and are looking forward to reading how they served alongside Titus Caspertein and other COIL characters. 😉 Having the book in paperback is the only way we are able to get novels to them, so we praise the Lord for the opportunity! And we pray it is a great encouragement to incarcerated believers.
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Telbat's Tablet

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Last Dawn Trilogy Begins!

NEW D.I. Telbat AUTHOR PAGE!

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The Lost Key, a Short Story by D.I. Telbat

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Research for Two Arizona Towns in Dawn of Affliction

Peach Springs, Arizona

Book Reviews by D.I. Telbat

D.I. Telbat Review of The Occupied by Craig Parshall

The Occupied

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Book Focus: Thru Chaos, God’s Plan is still Intact!

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Feb 2019 Novel Update for D.I. Telbat

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