What happens when a lifelong laborer picks up a pen in the hardest season of his life—and a story pours out that he believes came straight from God?

In this compelling episode of the Spirit Media Podcast, host David Foster sits down with first-time author Roy Roberts to explore the gripping story behind his Christian fiction thriller, Judgment and Mercy. Raised in the quiet coastal town of Tillamook, Oregon, and a heavy laborer by trade for most of his life, Roy never set out to become a novelist. But during a difficult chapter behind bars, he felt impressed to start writing—and the characters, tension, and twists began to flow in ways he can only describe as divinely inspired.

Roy shares how a quiet, hardworking man named Phil Gunn wins a $68 million lottery ticket and never imagines it will cost him everything, how the people we tru ...