Tim LaHaye
Tim LaHaye
Timothy F. "Tim" LaHayewas an American evangelical Christian minister, author, and speaker. He is best known for the Left Behind series of apocalyptic fiction, which he co-wrote with Jerry B. Jenkins. He authored more than fifty books, both fiction and non-fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Author
Date of Birth27 April 1926
CountryUnited States of America
christian giving age
Bible prophecy helps us to better understand the future and realize the urgent need to spread the Gospel. It motivates us to personal purity and gives us hope in a hopeless age.
country believe giving
Most of all, I believe God has chosen to bless this series. In doing so, he's giving the country and maybe the world, one last, big wake-up call before the events transpire.
thinking worry giving
If you are worrying about tomorrow, you can't possibly enjoy today. Think about it: you can't really give God tomorrow; you can give him only what you have, and today is all you have.
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We've fallen in love with the characters and the people and we're dreaming about what's going to happen to them. It's really a fun experience.
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One of the comments that we've heard that has really blessed us is people have been driven back to the book of Revelation to prove us wrong only to find that what we said was there.
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One of the things that I've never run into is anyone complaining about Jerry's ability to flesh out characters, as you indicated.
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What Jerry has done, in a masterful way, is go through and select portions of the Scripture and put words in Jesus' mouth that are legitimate because they already appear in the Bible.
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There were times I didn't think we would ever make it, even when we were cranking two out a year.
chosen god
I think God has chosen to use this as a tool.
nonfiction special written
I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.
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It's going to be used in the last days to get people to come against Christ, and that's the issue: they come against the Lord Jesus Christ. And in this new book, we show Christ coming to settle that big issue.
believe hard
Yes, in fact, it's hard to believe this, but it was almost 18 years ago when I first got the idea.
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That's why I was so grateful that we were able to delineate it and to make it clear to people that the whole world is coming against Christ.
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And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing.