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THE FACEBOOK POST that I read this week caught me off guard. It was from a friend. A recovering alcoholic, she quoted a few sentences from “Bill’s Story,” in the Alcoholics Anonymous book. The quote referred to one man’s struggle to accept any of the …
IT SURPRISES MANY PEOPLE, but the Bible doesn’t say that Noah’s ark came to rest on Mount Ararat. “The boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat” (Genesis 8:4). Like the Rockies, Ararat is a mountain range. It runs along the border of Turkey, …
I PROMISED in Friday’s blog to report on a few theories that Bible experts have to explain why folks in the first 10 generations of human beings lived nearly 1,000 years each. Spoiler alert: not one of the theories rings the bell. Not as far as …
I’M WORKING IN GENESIS at the moment and I’ve hit that speed bump about folks living 900 years or more. I’ll give you what I’ve got so far. See if you can finish it. There are certainly theories about how to handle the numbers, and I’ll report …
I JUST GOT AN ADVANCE COPY of Who’s Who & Where’s Where in the Bible 2.0. It’s not due in bookstores until next week. It’s an expanded, updated version of the first book I ever wrote for this particular publisher. The …
IN THE HISTORY OF MY LIFETIME, I haven’t come across many preachers worth listening to. At least not during their sermons. At one point in my life I just came to the conclusion that they talked too much. Really. That they were called on to …
LAST WEEK A HARVARD BIBLE SCHOLAR, Dr. Karen King, announced the discovery of a tiny shred of an ancient book that contains this jarring line: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife’…” The book—apparently part of a previously lost Gospel about …
I’M TRYING MY HAND at some easy-reading Bible commentary. Here’s a rough cut, first draft on an excerpt about the snake in the Garden of Eden. The snake that chatted up Eve. This section zeroes in on the line about God vowing perpetual …
IT’S ONE THING TO STUDY THE BIBLE. Reading and talking is easy. Living is the tough part. Putting into practice what we’ve learned: Love God. Love your neighbor as yourself. Recently, I’ve wondered who my neighbor is. We’ve talked about this in …
PHYSICAL LABOR ISN’T MY STRENGTH. But I did it over the weekend. On a mission trip to rural Kentucky, some 700 miles yonder from my prairie home. Two dozen souls from my church community traveled there in four vans. We divided into four teams and …
I KNOW I’M JUST GETTING THIS BLOG STARTED. But I need to bail for a few days. This morning I’m heading out on a short mission trip to help repair some homes in rural Kentucky, with the Appalachia Service Project. I’m going with a …
I LISTENED TO A SERMON YESTERDAY ABOUT SEX. That was odd. The pastors even warned off the kids, grade 6 and under, inviting parents to send them to the children’s program, which is probably where kids should be anyway if they hope to get anything …
