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VALENTINE’S DAY is coming. Saturday. I’ve already sent a box of chocolates to Mom, signing it for Dad, who died in 2001. He always gave her a heart-shaped box of chocolates. My brothers and I kept up that tradition for Dad by sending Mom chocolates …
HUMANS ARE STINKING UP THE PLANET. Headlines are not good. The Middle East has gone Medieval on us. Ice is melting at both poles. The Royals lost the World Series and the Seahawks lost the Super Bowl. We can’t do a thing about the Royals and the …
Jewish law allowed God’s people to eat most birds, including chicken, turkey, and duck. But no scavenger birds or birds of prey: falcon, eagle, or hawk. They weren’t kosher. See Leviticus 11. Understanding Jesus, p. 172.
I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER. You can’t write just one article about what Christians should do with evil in the world. No matter what you say, you are going to get follow-up questions. Here’s the follow-up question to Wednesday’s article, Burned …
VAPORIZING A TERRORIST in a drone attack. Is that Christian? Clearly, that’s what many Christians would love to do to those IS militants who burned alive a captured Jordanian pilot yesterday. I got an email with a tough question about that. Militants …
I DON’T LIKE some people in the Bible. Granted, I don’t know any of them. All I know about them is what I read in the Bible. Maybe if I met them face-to-face, and had coffee and a peanut butter cookie with them, and heard the rest of their story it …
After Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, “the high priests plotted to kill Lazarus because so many of the Jews were going over and believing in Jesus on account of him.” (John 12:10-11 The Message). Strange and Mysterious Stuff from the Bible, p. …
IT SHOULDN’T HAVE SURPRISED ME, but it did. Of all the blog articles I’ve written, the one most often repinned on the social media site Pinterest is The theology of Deputy Barney Fife. I wrote that thing on a whim after a random thought left me …
IF YOU PUT A BIBLE in the hands of one Christian and another Bible in the hands of a non-Christian, then you ask them each to read the same story, who do you believe would do the most thinking about what they’ve read? Here’s what I’m wondering. Would …
I’M NOT STEALING FROM JESUS, I’m helping him get his message out. At least I’m trying to help. If you read this blog much at all, you know I have a Bible-study technique I’m trying out. I’m putting the Bible into my own words. It’s not easy to do …
Jewish law allowed God’s people to eat kosher fish with scales and fins: salmon, bass, tuna. But not fish without scales and fins: catfish, sturgeon, dolphin. And no tasty shellfish: lobster, shrimp crab, oyster, clam. See Leviticus 11. Understanding …
WE GET HIGH-TECH when infertility strikes home. We can capture the little 50-micrometer swimmers, so small it would take 500 of them to stretch out an inch. And we can put them where they would do the most good. It’s acceptable today. We can plant …
