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JAMES HAS GREAT ONE-LINERS. Try these: “A body that doesn’t breathe is a corpse. Faith that doesn’t get up and go and do good things is just as dead” (James 2:26 Casual English Bible). “What we do expresses our faith, it completes it” (James 2:22 …
WE SHOULD PITY THE RICH, the Bible says. I’d rather take my money back. I’m talking about the money that rich people got by paying lawmakers to shift financial laws away from working grunts and toward the gruntmasters. By “paying lawmakers,” I mean …
Q Each of the names of Jacob’s sons means something, especially to the mothers. Which name moves you most? Reuben: Hebrew for “See, a son.” “Maybe now my husband will love me, since I have given him a son” (29:32). Simeon: Sounds like the Hebrew term …
CALL ME A PAGAN if you like, but there are some things Paul wrote in Romans that I think he got wrong. He said he was writing a letter to some people in Rome. He never said he was transcribing a message directly from God for people everywhere for the …
I LAUGHED AT A PREACHER last weekend. Not with. Note to my pastor: Relax. It wasn’t you. This time. The preacher was on a DVD, so he couldn’t hear me. Actually, the guy says he’s not a preacher. But if he’s not a preacher, he’s facing in the wrong …
Q LIFE APPLICATION. Paul’s request to Christians in Philippi is that they get along with each other: “Work through any disagreements you have and reach compromises so you’re all pulling in the same direction, united in love, spirit, and purpose” …
PAUL COMES UP WITH GREAT ONE-LINERS for the letter he wrote to Christians in Rome. Here are some I enjoyed over the past few weeks, as I paraphrased my way through the letter for the Casual English Bible. You can see God if you look. “They know the …
SO I’M SITTING IN MY OFFICE yesterday, listening to Microsoft Narrator read back to me what I wrote in my paraphrase of Romans. I stop and reset the speed of the reading, so it reads faster. I’m in a hurry to get this easy-reading version of an …
Q Luke doesn’t seem to have ever met Jesus or any of the original disciples. Instead, he seems to have gathered his information for this letter, the Gospel of Luke, in the same way a news reporter would gather information for a feature article: “he …
I KNOW IT’S ODD, but when I was reading yesterday about how Paul handled a food fight in Rome, I ended up thinking about how churches today handle the fight over abortion and homosexuality. Some Christians in the church in Rome thought it was wrong …
THIS IS A TWO-PART article. Part religion. Part politics. Part one: politics As I got ready for church on Sunday morning I watched the CNN interview between broadcast journalist Jake Tapper and Stephen Miller, who works for the president. It was a …
Q NASA uses the following words to describe the birth of the universe, which they say is made up mostly of mysterious substances they call Dark Energy and Dark Matter: “When the universe was young, it was nearly smooth and featureless. As it grew …
