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IT’S A PRAYER REQUEST for little bro, Cliff. Three weeks on a vent with COVID-19, he failed his first spontaneous breathing test yesterday. He lasted 15 minutes breathing on his own, I am told. He needs to last 30. Another test today, likely. A …
I HAD TWO BROTHERS at the beginning of the year. I don’t want to end with none. My youngest brother died in July. Heart attack. My surviving brother, also younger, is starting Day Nine on a Ventilator, fighting COVID. Yesterday morning, they …
Elizabeth was six months pregnant when God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a city in Galilee. There, Gabriel appeared to a virgin named Mary. She was engaged to Joseph, descended from King David. “Hello,” the angel said. “God is with you. And he …
AFTER ADULTERY, this is the prayer. The title to Psalm 51 in the Bible says King David wrote this prayer after his adultery with Bathsheba, and after arranging the battlefield death of her husband, an elite soldier in his army. Here’s …
WHEN I STUMBLE OVER a powerful Bible passage, as I work my way through paraphrasing the Casual English Bible, I create a video reading of the passage. For better, and sometimes…as today…for worse. For better Here are three examples of …
THE PREACHER wouldn’t let us pray this prayer in church. Someone would hit the brakes. But it’s in the Bible. People used to pray like this. We do, too, when no one’s listening. I created this paraphrase of Psalm 58 last week for …
THIS WASN’T MY IDEA. But the question of King David’s sexuality keeps coming up every now and again. Recently, another reader asked me if King David was gay—and if David and Jonathan were lovers? He directed me to this excerpt from a funeral song …
THERE’S ONE THING I’VE LEARNED about debating atheists on social media: keep it sociable. It’s too easy for me to get worked up because they often come at me pretty worked up themselves. Some call me names for believing Jesus even existed. Just about …
I’VE BEEN CREATING short videos of important Bible chapters and adding them to the Casual English Bible. This one is perhaps the most revered chapter of all. When we’re dying, this is the song we sing. I read it a few weeks ago to my …
SHE WASN’T MY DOG. So, as I watched her die at the vet early Sunday afternoon, why did I cry the primal cry, like I did when my brother died of a heart attack a few weeks ago? I don’t understand the equalizing force of love. Love doesn’t care if it’s …
DOES THIS TWO-AND-A-HALF-MINUTE PSALM sound like it was written by a sheepherder 3,000 years ago? Or does it sound like it was written as an op-ed feature at 1:30 a.m. today, when this blog article was written? I had to paraphrase this song, Psalm …
GOD GIVES DYING PEOPLE SOMETHING INVISIBLE. Strange to say, I’ve seen it. Not in any mystical sense. No hovering spirits or coins sliding along a tabletop. I’ve seen it the way we see the wind. Leaves moving. A rush of air that blows …
