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NOT EVERYONE AGREES WITH ME. I get that. But it does puzzle me sometimes when all I do is report some facts of history, and then people tear into me for it. Months ago I was curious about what Roman writers had to say about crucifixion in general. …
“It was about noon when everything went dark. Darkness covered the whole area for about three hours, until about 3 o’clock…Jesus screamed out loud, ‘Father, my spirit is in your hands now.’ After he said that, he took his last breath.” Luke 23:44-46 …
FIRST TIME I WENT TO PRISON to visit someone, I felt ashamed. Guilty by association, perhaps. My friend had done something shameful, and was paying the price. When I walked into the prison, the entrance opened into what looked like an atrium to a …
I WROTE THIS script on the first Palm Sunday after my Dad died following his 27-year battle with cancer. The story is true…not just based on the truth. Every fact is as I’ve reported it. I still can’t read this without crying. I ran this feature the …
Jesus at Last Supper: “I want you to know that this is the last time I will drink fruit of the vineyard. The next time I drink it, God’s Kingdom will have come.” Luke 22:18 Casual English Bible
IT’S TIME FOR JESUS TO DIE AGAIN. We kill him every year, in a sense. We do it on Good Friday, by remembering what he went through to save us. We don’t understand why he had to die, or why God couldn’t come up with a better plan. …
I GOT A JARRING EMAIL from a reader over the weekend. He’s someone I picked at random from my list of blog subscribers. He got a free book in my weekly giveaway. I got a thank-you email that rocked me back in my chair. The gent gave me permission to …
“When crowds came to get baptized, John tore into them. ‘You people think you’re born of Abraham but you’re actually the children of poisonous snakes. Who warned you to crawl out of your hole and slither away from the punishment that’s …
STOP READING THIS if you haven’t read Acting Christian when someone deletes your pictures. It won’t make much sense until you read the first article. I posted that original article last Thursday. It’s about what happened when a lady looking at the …
“A voice cries out in the barren land, Get ready, the LORD is coming. Plow the road. Every pothole and dip will be filled. Every mountain will get leveled. Switchbacks get straightened. Rough roads get smoothed.” Luke 3:4-5 Casual English Bible
I HAD OVER 400 PHOTOS and videos on the memory card of my Grandpa Camera, a nice little tool I bought when my two grandkids showed up a little over a year ago. The images got accidentally deleted by someone looking at them on my camera last week. …
SHE WAS IN HER 20’S, I’D SAY, the lady who cut my hair an hour ago. “You’re new here,” I said. “New here, but not to hair cutting. My husband and I just separated and I’m from Leavenworth.” That’s a town near Kansas City, famous for its prison. …
