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IF THERE’S A GOD, why doesn’t he show himself—or at least say hello? Most Christians would love it if God paid them a visit. They’d pummel him with questions. And if God is omnipresent—as the Bible implies—why not show up? He could appear to …
IT’S SHOCKING to see pictures of friends I haven’t seen in decades. Facebook does that to me from time to time. I go to the Facebook site of someone I knew way back when. I see a young man I recognize from my youth. And he’s standing beside some old …
IN A REVOLT against Moses and Aaron, Korah led 250 worship leaders. The worship leaders were Levites, assistants to the priests. Aaron and his sons were the only priests. But Korah seemed to think Levites should get to serve as priests, too. Moses …
CULTURES ALL OVER THE WORLD tell of a Great Flood. One shows up in the Epic of Gilgamesh, a Babylonian tale estimated to have been written more than 3,600 years ago. One fragment of the story, considered a copy, dates to about 2,600 years ago. Here’s …
IN A VISION about how the world as we know it will end, John of Revelation sees a global gathering of “all the rulers and their armies to a place with the Hebrew name “Armageddon” (Revelation 16:16). John, however, never gets around to …
A FEW DECADES BEFORE JESUS started healing people, a young man in Egypt died of what started as a toothache and ended as a whopping sinus infection. That’s the best guess of University of Western Ontario experts studying CT scans of the fellow’s …
VEGETABLES killed Naboth. King Ahab wanted to plant a vegetable garden outside his getaway palace in Jezreel, but Naboth owned a vineyard there. It had been in his family for generations, so he rejected Ahab’s offer to buy it or trade it for a better …
TI WAS FRONT-PAGE NEWS in my town yesterday. We Protestants in America have lost our majority. That’s a first in U.S. history. We are now just another minority religious group. Admittedly, still a big one: 48% of U.S. adults call themselves …
ISAAC WAS AN UNBUTTERED BAGEL kind of a guy. Plain. That’s why we have the old saying: “An Abraham is usually followed by an Isaac.” Abraham was exciting. He ventured into unknown territory, chased down a raiding party to take back what they stole, …
I’M LUCKY ENOUGH to go to a church that does more than complain about how bad the world is. We do something to help turn it in a better direction. This past weekend, my Bible study class divided up into 3 teams and we took on repair and …
IF GOD IS SO GOOD, why’d he kill everybody—people and animals? Killing everybody is overkill. If someone at the dinner table offends you, it’s not kosher to kill them. And it certainly makes no sense to kill everyone else, too, along with Buddy the …
THERE WAS A TIME when the southern Jewish nation of Judah had a queen instead of a king. Not just any queen. She was the daughter of King Ahab and possibly Jezebel, the notorious couple who ruled the northern Jewish nation of Israel. Athaliah …
