Josiah DeGraaf

Welcome QuicksilverWyvern!

So cool you write Fantasy and want to own your own business! I’m a huge fan of entrepreneurship!

Also so cool how many different creative pursuits you have!

I’m also curious about your “health issue roulette”. My wife had so many health issues for so long and almost died as well until she received healing from…[Read more]

Welcome Elias! So cool you write Fantasy and Sci-fi! I like to write those too.

Also intrigued that you like essay writing. What topics do you like to write about?

How did you hear about Kingdom Pen?

Rock music is not sinful.

You have freedom in Christ.

Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: 21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? – Colossians 2

At best, it’s a Romans 14 issue, as just about all external things and lif…[Read more]

Really good verses. I didn’t understand the purpose of baptism for a really long time. Didn’t really get it until a few years ago. I thought it was just a symbol and not important.

The Bible is very clear on how to be saved. In Acts 2:38, the crowd asks Peter what they must do to be saved. He says: “Repent AND be baptized, each of you, in the n…[Read more]

What is your denomination?

I don’t subscribe to any one denomination. I’m just a bible-believing disciple of Christ.

“Christianity came to Greece and became a philosophy. It came to Italy and became an institution. It came to Europe and became a culture. It came to America and became a business.”

Did you grow up with this denomination? Are…

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Yup! Rak Chazak Amats is the Kingdom Pen Battle Cry.

Pronounced: [Rock] [Khaw-Zawk] [aw-motts]

Rak Chazak Amats is an ancient Hebrew war cry used before going into battle.

Joshua chapter one is a perfect example when God commanded Joshua to be “strong and courageous” and go into the land God had promised His people.

What has been tra…[Read more]

Ok, I can move them. Let me know the titles of the ones you want moved over.

I was looking into that and my understand is no, that’s not possible with this software, but I’ll do more research.

Great post! I just created a new section just for roleplays.

Welcome Liska! Happy to have you here, and so cool you write fantasy stories based on scripture!

How did you find KP?

Welcome Bilbo! Sounds like you are embarking on a grand adventure!

Thanks for joining! How did you find us?

I love the imagery the words create! Your style is very different from mine so I don’t know how helpful I can be, but I’ll try! 🙂

What meter are you using? (I’m not very familiar with meter so I have to ask.)

The rhymes are slant rhymes I think? They’re not exact. But it’s pretty consistent until it gets to the last stanza. I don’t think that…[Read more]

I love the freeverse (that isn’t freeverse) poem! 🙂 Absolutely! Tag me when you post that poem that’s giving you grief. @koshka

Goodness me, I thought I replied to you ages ago, @koshka! Sorry! Now that I think about it, I went down a rabbit hole of web searching and trying to figure out what sort of poem it was, and I think I started to write a reply but must’ve never posted it.

Essentially, it’s a rhyming poem, but not a metered one. Some sources consider it free verse,…[Read more]

Now that I think about it, I’m really stuck on the edits so I might as well share what I’ve got here and see if you guys can’t help me get unstuck. I’ve made a few small changes that you may notice, but the main thing that I’m struggling with is settling on an ending.

I’ve written several endings that all have slight variations in words and…[Read more]

Thanks, @karissa-chmil! This is definitely one of my poems that I find myself going back to a lot and rereading. The atmosphere and imagery of it really draw me in, and I like pondering the meaning of it. 🙂

One of the edits I’m considering is possibly connecting some of the shorter, broken lines in the part of the poem you mention. It’s supposed…[Read more]

Thanks, @koshka! I love the layered meanings of words too. It was funny because I drafted it so hastily and impulsively that I didn’t even realize the full depth of meaning I had woven into the poem–until I was reading and rereading while editing. It was intentional and yet much of it was subconsciously done.

I just let all of the mixed-up…[Read more]