Hal Paxton

I'm me.

I'm a Christ centered fellow that is self employed and working on a career in writing. Fiction, and all it encompasses is my main passion. Creative Writing is what my college paper claims is my specialty. But I'm currently looking into the non-fiction magazine market. Specifically the Christian market.

My friends and family call my Hal. So feel free to do likewise.

I didn't realize it till recently, but I've been blogging for over a year. I just didn't know it was dubbed blogging. I've been sending out an eMail to family and friends detailing the Odd News around the world with my own personal brand of "insight." It began as an exercise in writing for me really; a way to start the day rolling and get the juices flowing. And hey, it's always fun to read about the bizarre and stupid. Like G.K. Chesterton wrote in his book Orthodoxy:

In short, oddities only strike the ordinary people. Oddities do not strike the odd people. This is why ordinary people have a much more exciting time; while odd people are always complaining of the dulness of life.

Soon I found myself commenting on the separation of the righteous from the unrighteous. And thus, while smiling at the Odd, The Great Separation was unveiled.

So my brother and I discuss this project where we hope together to detail the "conspiracies" of Satan as he attempts to deceive Christians and cause them to compromise their citizenship in Heaven with the citizenship of this world through the popular media. All in the hope to wake Christians up and entertain too.

We'll see how it goes.

Curious about what I believe? Here you go:

What I Believe.

In the one God, our Father, eternal and infinite.

In Jesus Christ, our Lord, who died for all our sins and rose from the dead. He now lives in heaven acting as our High Priest and Mediator. He will return to earth to judge the living and the dead and will then reign forever.

In the Holy Spirit, sent to comfort, guide and reveal God to His children. The Holy Spirit convicts each person of their sin and delivers gifts to each person to use in building God's Church.

In the infallibility of the Word of God.

God has a purpose for each of His children. He enables them to fulfill this purpose by ministering in and to the Church. This makes each person valuable.

Commitment to Jesus means commitment to the Body. Ephesians 4: 15-16, "Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work."

Jesus' finished work on the Cross joins us together as a family of believers, joint heirs with Jesus Christ. John 13:34-35, "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."