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Q What happened to most people who got crucified in Roman times? If they got lucky, a friend sweet-talked someone into freeing them. They got a proper burial. They got thrown into a mass grave or nearby pit. Crows, dogs, and wild critters recycled …
Q Paul creates a thoughtful and sometimes entertaining list of traits he wants to see or not see in church leaders (Titus 1:5-9). Just for fun, how about trying to put them in order of importance—as you would rate them? Or just pick out some of the …
I GOT SOME PUSHBACK to the 5-minute, all-you-need-to-know-about-the-Trinity video I released on New Year’s Day, The Trinity. I was a little leery of a line I paraphrased from the Gospel of John, which I’m working on now for the Casual English Bible. …
HAPPY NEW YEAR and welcome to 2019. May God have mercy on us all, and give us the desire, the drive, and the determination to make our little corners of the world kinder. I wrapped up 2018 by working up a five-minute video about the Trinity. It was …
Q Paul wrote as though he believed Jesus was coming back any minute. He said he expected that the people in Thessalonica, like himself, would be relieved of their troubles “when Jesus returns from heaven, with his entourage of mighty angels” (2 …
Q The first birth announcement on record about Jesus went to shepherds working the night shift, “keeping an eye on their sheep” (Luke 2:8). If God has a flair for the dramatic and a taste for metaphor, what do you think the value was in an angelic …
Q The angel Gabriel struck Zechariah mute, and possibly deaf, some experts say, merely because Zechariah asked how it would be possible for him and his wife to have a child: “I’m an old man, and my wife is up there in years, too” (Luke 1:18). Gabriel …
MY THIRD OF FOUR GRANDCHILDREN got baptized on Sunday. So I thought I would revisit an article I wrote a couple of years ago, when his brother was about to get baptized. It’s about the appropriateness of baptizing babies. When Grandson One …
Q Paul complimented the people of Thessalonica for accepting his message “for what it is: God’s word” (1 Thessalonians 2:13). Christians typically reserve the Bible for that tag: God’s Word. Many preachers, however, describe their sermons as God’s …
Q LIFE APPLICATION. Writing from Corinth, a 300-mile walk (483 km) south of Thessalonica (400 miles/645 km by sea), Paul says everyone in what is now Greece seems to have heard about the people of Thessalonica getting religion: “You have managed to …
AT 7 PM CENTRAL TIME today, I’ll be premiering a YouTube video called “A father’s reflection on a miscarriage.” It’s a personal story of how I experienced my wife’s miscarriage many years ago now, and about how I …
Q LIFE APPLICATION. On the flip side of talking about the nasty behavior we are supposed to get rid of, Paul tells us to dress up in our pretty spiritual clothes: “tenderhearted compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Cut each other …
