The Reverend James L. Snyder is an award winning author whose writings have appeared in more than eighty periodicals including GUIDEPOSTS. In Pursuit of God: The Life of A. W. Tozer, Snyder’s first book, won the Reader’s Choice Award in 1992 by Christianity Today. Snyder has authored 8 books altogether.

Rev. James L. Snyder has a knack for making fun of daily frustrations and will increase the humor aptitude of your readers so they too can discover that life is less stressful when you’re laughing. Through these essays, your readers will realize that humor and religion belong together and can keep them from taking themselves and others too seriously.

Through thirty years of ministry, he and his wife Martha have been involved in three church-planting projects prior to their current ministry at the Family of God Fellowship in Ocala, Florida. The Snyders have three children and four grandchildren.

Often a store has a sign with the warning, "You break it, you bought it." This is to keep people from carelessly handling the merchandise.

Everyone who is anybody has a hobby or at least ... the idea. Hobbies range from sports to crafts to reading and even ... Some hobbies don't make sense to me like ... dead insects

Some who know me suggest I might be a wee bit ... at times. I prefer to think of it as simply being actively engaged in ... ... giving the tiny gray cells a good workout. My mott

... the years, I'm happy to report, I have learned a thing or two about myself. My only regret is I have not learned more than a few things.I could make a long list of things I have not yet lea

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Memory is a very tricky thing, at least for me it is. Looking back, over a year's span of activity my memory seems to pick and choose what it ... It amazes me not so much what a person remember

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The door to my office exploded as ... at least it seemed like that many to me, of children ... my desk. My defenses were down and the merry mob held me captive. Wisely, I decided to surre

Those who knew me when I wore a young parson's suit and tie would ... attest to the fact that I reigned as the ... king, and to be honest, I was rather happy in this position with no des

Gary Hemsely was running for some county ... position — I've ... which one now. What I do remember is that he was a member of my church at the ... a pastor can get between the R

I had a dream the other night. Dream nothing, it was a ... if you must know the truth. Normally I don't put too much stock in dreams — or — ... as the case may be, but this was differen

My favorite novel, as a young person, was In His Steps, written by Charles Sheldon. The premise of this novel is simple. A group of people in the church made a ... pact that before doing or sayi

The amazing thing about ... American culture is its ... to organize itself into neat little ... This ... ... referred to by some as PHS, (not to be confused

"When in polite ... my ... opined, "never talk about religion or ... Then he would dismiss himself from said "polite society" and talk about nothing but religion and ...