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I SPENT WEDNESDAY paraphrasing Revelation 3 for the Casual English Bible. I won’t post Revelation until I finish all 22 chapters. But here’s a sneak peek at my first, unproofed draft of the short letter to Christians in the church at …
IT SEEMS LIKE A CRAZY WAY to start telling the story of Jesus. John introduced him as “the living Word of God” (John 1:1 Casual English Bible). What? Try picturing that in your head. It’s so much easier to picture him as a baby in a …
I WAS SURPRISED to read what a Roman dog owner in Jesus’ day said in tribute to the pet dog he buried. I was surprised because I know that Romans had a ritual of crucifying some dogs each year. Romans crucified the dogs for a reason that makes …
I GOT OVERRUN by YouTube viewers this week. Some 220,000 of them. I have no idea why my video What Romans said about crucifixion attracts such a diverse crowd: Loving Christians Crazy drunk Christians Kind atheists Killer atheists who recommend …
I GOT CAUGHT OFF GUARD by one verse in particular, when I was recently paraphrasing my way through the Gospel of John for the Casual English Bible. See if this makes sense to you: “Eternal life comes from the Spirit. Our bodies have nothing to …
I READ ATHEISTS just about every day. It’s not my choice. It’s my job. I have created enough YouTube videos about the Bible that Google analytics tells me I have about 150-200 people watching my videos every hour. It’s a little intimidating to think …
JESUS ON THE CROSS. That’s the first-known picture of Jesus, etched into a jasper oval about an inch long (30 mm), and probably worn on someone’s ring or as a necklace or bracelet. It dates to around a century and a half after the time of Jesus. So …
I JUST FINISHED paraphrasing the Gospel of John for the Casual English Bible. Kinda. I wanted to get the paraphrase out in time for the Easter Season. But I’m still working on the maps. I have some finished. But I’ll keep working my way …
PARDON THE HIATUS. I’ve been scrambling to finish an Easter-season video before Easter. These Bible-background videos sap a tremendous amount of time out of me because I’m an internet-taught rookie. I have to google nearly everything but my face, …
I JUST FINISHED the first draft of a paraphrase of the Gospel of John for the Casual English Bible. The idea for the paraphrase started as an experiment in Bible study. I decided to paraphrase Genesis while I worked on A Visual Walk Through Genesis. …
The typical meal for Jewish folks in Roman times featured Bread olive oil dried figs and a mess of stew made from beans, lentils, and peas. I wrote about that in a recent article: Ancient diet for a trim look. Richer folks could add some wine and …
I DID SOME MATH FOR YOU. I had to. The scholar didn’t finish the job. (Sorry, you get a B+, which is fine. It would have been an A- if the math problem hadn’t shown up on the lead page.) I’m talking about an article in the current issue of Biblical …
