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I’M TRYING MY HAND at some easy-reading Bible commentary. Here’s a rough cut, first draft on an excerpt about the snake in the Garden of Eden. The snake that chatted up Eve. This section zeroes in on the line about God vowing perpetual …
IT’S ONE THING TO STUDY THE BIBLE. Reading and talking is easy. Living is the tough part. Putting into practice what we’ve learned: Love God. Love your neighbor as yourself. Recently, I’ve wondered who my neighbor is. We’ve talked about this in …
PHYSICAL LABOR ISN’T MY STRENGTH. But I did it over the weekend. On a mission trip to rural Kentucky, some 700 miles yonder from my prairie home. Two dozen souls from my church community traveled there in four vans. We divided into four teams and …
I KNOW I’M JUST GETTING THIS BLOG STARTED. But I need to bail for a few days. This morning I’m heading out on a short mission trip to help repair some homes in rural Kentucky, with the Appalachia Service Project. I’m going with a …
I LISTENED TO A SERMON YESTERDAY ABOUT SEX. That was odd. The pastors even warned off the kids, grade 6 and under, inviting parents to send them to the children’s program, which is probably where kids should be anyway if they hope to get anything …
ONE OF MY FAVORITE SET OF VERSES in the Bible comes from the mouth of a prophet standing at the brink…about to lose everything, perhaps even his life. His name is Habakkuk (huh BACK uck). He has just learned from God that invaders are coming. …
SOME CHRISTIANS don’t take the Genesis account of Creation literally. They say it’s because it sounds like the writer is driving with a poetic license. The rhythmic flow includes repeated lines that sound like they belong in the chorus of a …
I KNOW. It’s hard to imagine me getting complaints, given the fact that I don’t take positions on controversial topics in the Bible reference books I write. Instead, I try to objectively report the various ideas and the reasons behind …
I’M CAPTIVATED d by a series of sermons that my pastor is preaching because it’s right up my alley: Wrestling with the Bible. Tomorrow, his sermon topic will be “Dinosaurs on the Ark: The Bible and Science.” He’ll be …
GOD PARTED THE SEA for Moses, the Bible reports. A generation later, for Joshua and the Jews invading what is now Israel, God stopped the Jordan River, the natural border protecting what the Jews called the Promised Land. When I started researching …
THERE WAS ONE PARTICULAR DAY in my life when I felt: Overwhelmed Alone Exhausted—mostly from depression and stress I was twentysomething. I’d give you the backstory, but why bother. You’ve probably been there, too. Instead, let me pass along the …
WAS THE STORY OF JOB about a real human being in history? Or was Job a fictional character in something like a really long parable—a bit like the guy who got beat up in Jesus’ story about a Good Samaritan? I think most of us have grown up assuming he …
