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TO KNOW WHAT FRUSTRATES ME as a Christian author, picture the angel Gabriel with an iPhone. He’s flying around inside a church that hasn’t been built yet, videotaping the fly-through with his phone. Afterward, he posts the video in hi-def on Vimeo. …
WE’VE DONE TERRIBLE THINGS, many of us. Probably most of us. Maybe all of us. No wonder I recently got dished up this question: If I could ask God one thing, I would ask “Does He really forgive me?” I picked this as the Bible question of the week …
IF YOU’RE READING THIS you’re a guinea pig. I’m test-driving a new idea for a Friday feature. As I work through my research during the week, I’m going to look for a little-known fact from the Bible or Bible history. And I’m gonna let you in on …
INSTEAD OF MY WORDS, for a change how about some sacred words. It’s Wednesday. Get-over-the-hump Day. See Friday ahead. Some of my friends are going through tough times. It’s a hard week to face. They need strong words of encouragment. …
PEOPLE GET TICKED when we tag them with the wrong description. “I am not a secretary. I am an administrative assistant to the president.” They get ticked even when we’re right—when they are a secretary, by any sane definition. Yet they can also be an …
DON’T BEAT ME UP for doing this…for messing with the Bible. I do it as a fun devotional, in my spare time. I try to take the Bible’s meaning and wrap it in words that folks outside the Christian faith could easily follow. Those are …
IT’S THE BIBLE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from a group of teenage girls in a church confirmation class. And it’s reported by Christina Smith Wise who gets a free book for passing the question along to me. (Note to readers: The deal’s still open. …
I DID NOT watch a football game on Sunday evening. I watched a highlight reel, interspersed with a blooper reel. Highlight reel: Seattle Seahawks—the team my son seems irrationally attached to, given that he lives in the middle of the country. Why on …
IT’S THE BIBLE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Igal German, who wins a free copy of one of my books for the effort. Igal, email me. Here’s how Igal put it: Why do people struggle to attend their church regularly? Oddly enough, Netflix comes …
HOW DO YOU HELP SOMEONE who needs it, but doesn’t want it? I’ve had that going on lately with a couple of people – one relative and one stranger. How about I talk about the stranger, so as not to get in quite as much hot water. I don’t mean to be …
WHEN YOUR CARBON CRUMBLES and your casket lies locked in the dirt, what will be left of you here? I’ve been wondering about that lately. Not that I have plans to crumble anytime soon. But I do have family and friends who are living life fragile these …
IT’S THE BIBLE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Collette Lilly, who wins a free book of mine for bothering to ask it. Here’s her question, which is actually a statement. You have to imagine the question mark. A pastor once told our Bible study …
