The Frost of Lost Words: The Holy Spirit and the Writer

Published 2023 by Higher Ground Publishing and Media

Writing can be more than a one-way secular experience of distributing information. Instead, writing can be a spiritual journey if you let it become one. This book is exacted towards this end by making writing a sacred practice that can bring you closer to Jesus by understanding His presence through the Holy Spirit while you write. Some people are called by God to be writers. God not only creates aspiring writers, but He also guides and encourages them to become better writers through the supernatural urgings of the Holy Spirit. The Frost of Lost Words is about the Holy Spirit’s involvement in the writing process and about how writers can write from a supernatural perspective by allowing the Holy Spirit to participate.

Chronicles of a Spiritual Journey

Published 2019 by Higher Ground Publishing and Media

Chronicles of a Spiritual Journey recounts personal stories that seem like random worldly occurrences. Yet, upon closer scrutiny, each story reveals a parallel spiritual relevance as well. The stories range from eating breakfast with Superman at an airport to loading iron pellets into the Edmund Fitzgerald. Questions for the reader follow each story to help them to discern the spiritual significance of their own life’s experience. Entertaining and engaging, Chronicle of a Spiritual Journey tells the spiritual tales of one man’s life, but it’s more about the collective spiritual journey of us all.

Eyes of Understanding: Seeing Life From the Heart-Side Out

Published 2021 by Higher Ground Publishing and Media

Eyes of Understanding presents narrative examples of secular evil, explains the benefits of removing yourself from it by living in the Spirit instead of the flesh, and then explains lifestyle changes to help you to make that transition. It seeks to substitute the anxiety in life produced by living in the flesh in the secular world with a more peaceful and holier lifestyle achieved by living in the Spirit with Jesus. Bible verses are cited throughout the book to substantiate this lifestyle change, and by embracing your more spiritual self, you can better understand what God expects of you.

Losing the Sound of Your Own Stride

Published 2022 by Higher Ground Publishing and Media

Losing the Sound of Your Own Stride explains through essays why people are not able to discern the spiritual nature of their own walk with God. Many people have lost the sound of why God put them here to walk the earth. Instead of striding towards God and His ways, many people are walking away from Him because they do not hear the sound of God’s moral direction for them. Therefore, Losing the Sound of Your Own Stride is about how to find your own moral obligation to walk with God. Concepts like faith, the Bible, salvation, and Jesus’ mission are discussed so that those people seeking to return to Jesus can find Him.

GOD: The Power Source Of Everything

Published: January 2018 by Westbow Press

God: The Power Source of Everything is a series of seventy-one devotional essays with a stated theme and questions to prompt discussion in small church groups. The 750-word essays are based on Bible verses from the Old and New Testaments and are arranged by theme under four chapter headings: (1) “Relationship with God,” (2) “Relationship with Jesus,” (3) “A Christian’s Life,” and (4) “Satan’s Influence.” The table of contents is arranged by theme number for easy reference.

Each short 750-word essay is the author’s reflective comment on the Bible verse, which both helps the reader to understand and to relate to the verse. Themes for discussion include personal shipwrecks, desert place and electronic monkeys, God’s time—one tick without a tock, and bearing false witness and weapons of war.

Stories At the Edge

Published 2019 by Cyberwit.net

Stephen Shepherd’s world in his short story collection On The Edge is a place where you take your car in for a massage, where fast food is served so fast that it doesn’t exist, and where the government telepathically broadcasts the headlines from the National Enquirer to your brain. It’s a world where people name themselves Economy Size, Regular, and New & Improved, and it’s a world where the dead drink beer. Highly imaginative and intensely funny, it’s a world where you’ve never been before and will not soon forget.

The Last Chord Concert

From Publishers Weekly

It's a rock world roman a clef in Stephen Shepherd's novella The Last Chord Concert, which imagines, three centuries from now, intergalactic gigs, "robotan" roadies, the familiar slick manager-types and the climactic death of rock and roll. The evil Click Dark's a gimme, but who are the talentless McBison Brothers, and who is protagonist Michael Molecule, the guy from Neptune who wants to put an end to it all "by playing the last chord at a rock quarry"? That's for astute fans of popular music (especially those who decry the greed of big record labels) to determine.

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