Vance C. Kessler
Vance Kessler's writing style could be called "Informal Theology." He loves to study about God. When he learns something new, he likes to frame that truth in a way that is easily relatable. This helps us better understand whatever truth God is teaching him. His writing is interesting, easy to read, and easy to understand. You will find very few big fancy church words in his writing. His latest joy has been in writing Christian Science fiction. He manages to put God’s truth into the gripping fictional realities he creates.
Vance loves reading non-fiction Christian books about various aspects of God or about Christian living. Vance is also an avid fan of science fiction and fantasy. His favorite authors include C.S. Lewis, Timothy Keller, William Craig, N.T. Wright, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Francis Chan, A.W. Tozer, Orson Scott Card, Robert Jordan, Isaac Asimov, Neil Gaiman, Terry Brooks, Terry Pratchett, and of course J.R.R. Tolkien.
Vance Kessler is a native Georgian and lives there with his lovely wife and his two wonderful children. Vance loves to study the Bible and has been studying it for over 30 years. He is a quiet person but if you get him started talking about spiritual matters it is hard to get him to stop.
Vance was born in Savannah, Georgia. He has a long Christian heritage to draw from. Vance was raised in a strong Christian home with a father who started and preached at two different churches. He is a direct descendant of the Salzburgers. The Salzbugers came over from Salzburg Austria in the 1700's to escape religious persecution and to worship freely in the United States. The oldest standing church building in Georgia was built by the Salzburgers, right down the road from where Vance's father was born and raised.
“Heaven is our true home. This earth is no more your home than was your mother’s womb. As we were never designed to stay in the womb, we were also not designed to stay in this world either. Both are temporary places of preparation for something much better.”
“Having an eternal perspective can help when considering various choices in our lives. If we are honest, some decisions we have made in our lives would have been made differently if we had taken the time to think of them in terms of our eternal future.”
“People already have a desire for the things Heaven holds. We simply need to see that these things are not just some fancifuldream from a song but are a promised future reality.”
“There are also several practical aspects to learning more about our eternal home. Having a better perspective on the purpose of our lives helps us to handle difficult times better. It helps us focuson what is truly important. It also helps us to enjoy this life morefully.”
“Jesus was the only perfect person, so all other people God uses are sinful and flawed.”
“The best way for us to get a good understanding of the priority we are placing on our relationship with God is to look at the choices we are making. These choices do not earn us any level of righteousness, but they do show the priority we place in our relationship with God. They show how much we want to honor Him and His desires.”
“We are all deeply ashamed by choices we have made and things we have done. Many of these things are worthy of the raunchiest tabloid. These things bring pain and misery into our lives. But even with that, if we love and trust God and turn from those things to God, then He will still love us and be able to use us in powerful ways.”