A little bit about what drives me…
I spent my career as a professional educator, with over 30 years of experience in public education, but that’s not why I write.
Since I was in my 20s, I have journaled insights that came to me as a read the Bible or other books. I still have a drawer full of spiral notebooks filled with ideas insights, trains of thought, and study notes.
In my later years, I have been sharing some of these trains of thought that I feel might be of interest to others. I especially have a desire to provide good quality resources to people in cultures outside of the American, English-speaking, Christian culture.
I was inspired to do this partly because of a visit to a very large, multi-story bookstore in Berlin, Germany. In contrast to the American Christian culture, where whole bookstore chains are devoted to Christian resources, in this bookstore, (after quite a bit of searching,) I found the Christian book shelf (not section) lumped in with every other religion and philosophy under the sun. On this lone Christian bookshelf, there were three Bibles and a smattering of what might loosely be called “Christian” books with plenty of room to spare on the shelf.
That was it!
How could anyone really develop their knowledge and progress in the Christian faith if that was all they had access to?
(Ok, stepping off of my soapbox now.)
A Variety of Resources
As a teacher, I understand that people learn in a variety of ways, through a variety of media, techniques, approaches and presentation methods. My goal is to communicate timeless principles of Truth and Wisdom in the most effective means possible, in a variety of formats, in order to maximize the benefit for each individual who may be engaged in the content.
You can find and follow Alan Drake and Spirit of Wisdom Media & Publications on several platforms:
- Amazon
- Books2Read
- Google Play (for eBooks and Audiobooks)
- Substack
- TikTok
- YouTube
- Podcasts (on many different platforms)
- and others
Preparation for Purpose!
Ultimately, I’d like to think that I am helping to equip, enable, and empower you to fulfill your unique purpose in life. (Maybe I’m overly optimistic, but that’s what I aspire to.)
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Alan Drake
Themes
I usually stick to six main themes when I write:
- Finding your Way in Life, which I hope will be helpful guidance in basic principles of Christian living.
- God’s Signals in Life. I believe God gives us many signals to guide us on life's journey. These articles focus on revealing these signals and how to best respond to them.
- Character Consequences. These articles focus on the benefits of living with godly character, and the consequences for not doing so.
- Doing the Works of Jesus, which focuses on ministering Jesus’ way.
- Adventures with God, where I share stories of God’s tangible help and blessings in my life and sometimes the lives of others.
- Knowing God. This may be the most important category of all, focusing on developing a deeper, personal relationship with God.
- Kingdom Leadership, which is more-or-less a catch-all category for articles that don’t fit in the other categories. Usually, these articles include prophetic insights.