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Bob Hostetler
The Steve Laube Agency
24 W. Camelback Rd., A-635
Phoenix, AZ 85013
Bob@SteveLaube.com
Welcome
Are you interested in Applying Truth and Deepening Faith while living in a culture that actively works against both of those goals?
If so, I hope you’ll explore the resources offered on these pages and enjoy what you find!
Join our monthly challenge!
You’re invited to join our private Flourish Facebook group:
a community of Christians encouraging each other to flourish as we cultivate the fruit of the Spirit.
We’ll share encouragement, challenges, contests, and the chance to win prizes.
Planned activities include fun monthly challenges focusing on individual aspects of the Spirit’s fruit, including love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
Our first monthly challenge will begin Feb. 1 with the first display of the Spirit’s fruit: Love.
Here’s the link to join: www.facebook.com/groups/flourishfruitcommunity
Announcing a new release with Kregel Publications!
FROM THE BLOG
Forward
Forward! It’s the end of January and last year is officially in our rearview mirror . . . or is it? Much like the Ghost of Christmas Past in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, events from 2025 are causing some of us sleepless nights. Unresolved issues and regrets...
Not Just Another Rat in a Rat Race
Not Just Another Rat in a Rat Race My first commercially published work, Not Just Another Rat, was released as part of a Chicken Soup for the Soul anthology in 2003. The collection of stories, titled Chicken Soup for the Working Woman’s Soul, was a perfect...
Reflections on the Names of God
is available from Revell Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group print and ebook formats.
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