Hi, I'm Susie Larson.

Thanks for listening to this podcast from Susie Larson Live.

Welcome to Susie Larson Live. welcome do dance you don't have to know how to ever since ever since we've got you like welcome to susy larsen live always honored to get to spend this time with you in fact i look forward

to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk

that deepen your understanding of god's word and that heightens your awareness of his very real

presence in your life. So here's a question for you. When you consider how you view yourself

and even how you treat yourself, how closely would you say that it mirrors how your Heavenly

Father feels about you, how he treats you? My friend Jim Rubart is a best-selling novelist

whose books so often explore the deeper truths

about who we are. Today we're going to talk with Jim about his writing journey, about the upcoming

writers conference, and specifically about his novel, The Pages of Her Life. I couldn't put it down.

It was amazing. Given our conversation around the conference, I want to tell you, there's still

time to join us for this weekend's conference.

It's Northwestern Christian Writers Conference held on the beautiful campus of University of Northwestern St. Paul.

Coming up this Friday and Saturday, July 16th and 17th, more information is on the web at Northwestern Christian Writersconference.com.

All right, let me tell you about my guest.

We'll get him on the show. I love his bio. James Dubart is 28 years old, but lives trapped inside an older man's body. He thinks he's still young enough to water ski like a madman and dirt bike with his two grown sons. He's a best-selling Christy Hall of Fame author of 10 novels and loves to send readers on mind-bending spiritual journeys that they'll remember months after they finish one of his stories. He's also a branding expert, audiobook narrator, co-founder with his son, Taylor of the Rubart Writing Academy. He lives with his amazing wife on a small lake in eastern Washington, and we love him. Jim, welcome back to the show. Susie, thanks for having me.

I've missed chatting with you. I'm so looking forward to our conversation.

I'm so sorry it's been so long. We move like a freight train and I come up for air and go, wait a minute, where's Jim been? I need to get him back on. So grateful. I'm so sad we only get a half hour, but we're going to get you back for a full hour.

But you know this. You've been on plenty of times.

We love to start everyday talking scripture, wondering if you have any passage on your mind, what the Lord's been talking about these days. Yeah, this has been one that's been on my mind a lot. I'd say the last six months, and it's Proverbs 1412. there is a way that seems right to a man or a woman, but its end is the way to death.

And let me just expand on that for a moment. I love it when we take scripture and we make it very, very practical. So I'll apply this to my own life. This year, I decided to get in in shape, condition, lose a little bit of weight, but also

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