Outside the Box

Ross and me in the Green Room

A man wrote last week declaring, “Your book No Mercy is outside the box.”

I disagree. Oh, sure. I published it unconventionally, and I speak to issues that are not often revealed in nice company, but I had no intention of writing a book that is not relevant.

The concept of No Mercy is revolutionary, granted. And the literary style is outside the norm. But the story of Henry “Hank” Henderson is not uncommon. He is a normal person, living a fairly normal life, who encounters the revolutionary God of heaven.

Perhaps that’s what the man was critiquing. A revolutionary God does sound outside the box. Abnormal, really.

But I disagree again. That God is passionate, persists, and pursues is what He does—and has done since He created mankind.

Had I written a book that was truly revolutionary or outside the box, then the God I present in No Mercy would have been remote, removed, indifferent, and irrelevant. I didn’t write a deism fantasy! I wrote about real life and a real-time, interactive God utilizing the literary elements of fiction and allegory.

In our lives, we are at war upon the battlefield waged by flesh against Spirit and Spirit against flesh. As I demonstrate in No Mercy, we are not alone, left to our own devices. We are indwelt, guarded, and allied with the triumvirate of warriors known as the Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

If you haven’t read No Mercy, you can read more here or purchase here.