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Author Bob Hostetler

Bob Hostetler is an award-winning author, literary agent, and speaker from southwestern Ohio. His fifty books, which include the award-winning Don’t Check Your Brains at the Door (co-authored with Josh McDowell) and The Bard and the Bible: A Shakespeare Devotional, have sold millions of copies. Bob is also the director of the Christian Writers Institute (christianwritersinstitute.com). He and his wife, Robin, have two children and five grandchildren. He lives in Las Vegas, NV.
A broken heart.
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Categories BA Banner May June 2025

When Families Hurt

  • By Bob Hostetler
  • May 23, 2025

How to heal from damaging relationships. by Bob Hostetler Families are a gift from God. They can provide us with life and love, hope and…

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Categories BA May June 2024

Living a Truly Successful Life

  • By Bob Hostetler
  • May 10, 2024

by Bob Hostetler Matthew Emmons aimed his rifle at the target one last time. He was one shot away from his second Olympic gold medal…

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Categories BA March April 2024

Surviving Spiritual Conflict

  • By Bob Hostetler
  • March 8, 2024

The new Little League baseball player had just struck out. He ran to his father in tears. “He won’t let me hit it, Daddy!” The…

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Categories March April 2024 Online Extras

What Makes a Hero

  • By Bob Hostetler
  • March 1, 2024

Before Iron Man, there was Spider Man. And before Spiderman, there was the Fantastic Four. And before the Fantastic Four, there were Captain America and…

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Categories BA November December 2023

When Life Stinks

  • By Bob Hostetler
  • December 22, 2023

Maybe your life has been just one steady climb, rung by rung, up the ladder of success. Maybe the soundtrack of your life is filled…

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Categories BA September October 2023

A LEGACY of  Leadership

  • By Bob Hostetler
  • October 27, 2023

I picked up the hotel room movie guide and was struck by the tag line for a program titled Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee:…

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Categories BA July August 2023

A Whole New You

  • By Bob Hostetler
  • July 7, 2023

My daughter, Aubrey, was ten or eleven years old the time she and I went together to the grocery store. I wore an old Cincinnati…

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Categories May June 2023

Mission: Jubilee!

  • By Bob Hostetler
  • May 26, 2023

It was early on the morning of the Sabbath. Bearded, robed men passed between rows of pillars as they took their seats in the dusky…

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Categories January February 2022 Online Extras

How to Find the Love of Your Life

  • By Bob Hostetler
  • December 30, 2021

At sixteen years old, I found the love of my life at a Salvation Army camp. Three years later, we were married. There aren’t enough…

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Categories BA November December 2021

How to Hear from God

  • By Bob Hostetler
  • December 24, 2021

Wouldn’t it be nice to hear from God? For students who are struggling to choose a school, a major, a career; for sweethearts contemplating marriage;…

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Touching Jesus (Mark 5:24-34)

Touching Jesus (Mark 5:24-34)

  • By Chris Ahlemann
  • Estimated read time 1 min read
  • April 21, 2025
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  • By Kayla Cannon
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  • February 24, 2025
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What is meant by “Do not quench the Spirit” in 1 Thessalonians 5:19?

What is meant by “Do not quench the Spirit” in 1 Thessalonians 5:19?

  • By Chip Hinds
  • Estimated read time 3 min read
  • April 21, 2025
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John 6:53-55 says we must eat and drink the body and blood of Jesus. Isn’t this transubstantiation of the bread and wine, instead of only a symbolic representation?

John 6:53-55 says we must eat and drink the body and blood of Jesus. Isn’t this transubstantiation of the bread and wine, instead of only a symbolic representation?

  • By Chip Hinds
  • Estimated read time 3 min read
  • February 24, 2025
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