This book was designed as a gift book with special graphics and numerous color images. The book is comprised of Chapter 3 of Repurposing Scars with some added content, images, and text from an unpublished manuscript. Buy one for your pastor, chaplain, graduate student, or other minister or caregiver!
"Acquiring excellence in writing will give you a sharper edge in life, a major leg up in business, and better favor in everything you do. You will be a better you!"
—Kevin Hrebik, Founder
About the founder
Try it, you'll like it
Words to ponder
This was my first book that now has several new images added, all of which come from the same perspective of bringing broken hearts and lives to him to mend, and we leave repaired, retooled, revamped, and repurposed, ready for our new mission in life.
Doctor of Ministry clients on graduation day
at Baylor University / George W. Truett
Theological Seminary in Waco, TX.
The vast majority of our clients had never tried a professional editor before, yet virtually all of them later wrote generous testimonies about our service, and they couldn't have been more appreciative.
Presenting a writing workshop to students in Houston Graduate School of Theology's new program, Doctor of Professional Counseling (DPC).
Similar to "The Dog Whisperer" TV show,
we rehabilitate documents and train writers!
This book was a dozen years in the making, starting with my human research at Harris County Jail in Houston from 2009–2012 for my doctoral dissertation. I'm calling it a one-stop shop for caregivers dealing with emotional and psychological damage. I coined the term "scar theology" based on Jesus' surviving scars at his resurrection.
This book evolved directly from my doctoral project, then went through several transformations over the years, culminating in this book format. This is the text version of the curriculum that I have been presenting to thousands of both male and female inmates since 2010.
Coming Attractions:
All ten lessons of this curriculum will be recorded live and posted on YouTube, with links here, so others can present the material in any context. Stay tuned for updates!
Kevin Hrebik, DMin, has more than 40 years experience in most aspects of the writing and publishing world. He began as a typesetter, using a linotype machine in the 1970s. He has sold poetry, fiction, greeting cards, product texts, high school and adult Sunday school curriculum, scripture commentaries, and magazine articles. In 1987, he founded Living Streams magazine, a small press Christian writer's outlet.
Kevin has been a staff writer for Cornerstone magazine, editorial director for Abbey Press, assignment writer for Charisma magazine, and freelance copyeditor and proofreader for the publisher of the world-famous “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series.
He holds an AS in Journalism, a BA in Interpersonal Communication, a MA in Religion, and a DMin from Houston Graduate School of Theology with a specialization in pastoral care. He formally launched My Paper Whisperer in 2010 and began to focus on graduate and doctoral student papers, theses, projects, and dissertations.
Kevin's first book, The Carpenter's Shop and Other Metaphors is his testimony cast in a creative way. His first professional book, Repurposing Scars: Meaningful Life after the Enduring Damage of Trauma, is a "one-stop-shop" for caregivers of all types ministering to the traumatized in life. His third book, Applying Faith and Family Systems to Emotional Scars, is the curriculum that he has been presenting to inmates since 2010. His fourth book, The Special Message of Jesus' Scars is designed as a gift book for pastoral caregivers of all types.