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ATHEISTS TARGET ME through a homemade video I did: What Romans said about crucifixion. Perhaps they’re drawn to it because they’re curious about why a million people would want to watch it. Or maybe they figure it’s a good place to stir up trouble …
Q LIFE APPLICATION. Here’s one main teaching of Christianity that doesn’t seem to make much sense to people outside the faith: “Our sins are a capital offense, but God sent Jesus to take our punishment. Jesus bled and died for the sins we committed” …
Q First Paul tells Timothy to keep women quiet in the church that Timothy pastors in the city of Ephesus. “The ladies need to keep quiet” (1 Timothy 2:12). Then he sends greetings to a woman in Rome who some scholars say he regarded as an …
SNOW PILED ON US over the weekend, here in the Kansas City area. It wasn’t a normal snow. It fell thick and heavy, clinging to houses, cars, and trees…pruning many trees, in fact. I don’t usually grab a coat and a camera whenever it …
Q What happened to most people who got crucified in Roman times? If they got lucky, a friend sweet-talked someone into freeing them. They got a proper burial. They got thrown into a mass grave or nearby pit. Crows, dogs, and wild critters recycled …
Q Paul creates a thoughtful and sometimes entertaining list of traits he wants to see or not see in church leaders (Titus 1:5-9). Just for fun, how about trying to put them in order of importance—as you would rate them? Or just pick out some of the …
I GOT SOME PUSHBACK to the 5-minute, all-you-need-to-know-about-the-Trinity video I released on New Year’s Day, The Trinity. I was a little leery of a line I paraphrased from the Gospel of John, which I’m working on now for the Casual English Bible. …
HAPPY NEW YEAR and welcome to 2019. May God have mercy on us all, and give us the desire, the drive, and the determination to make our little corners of the world kinder. I wrapped up 2018 by working up a five-minute video about the Trinity. It was …
Q Paul wrote as though he believed Jesus was coming back any minute. He said he expected that the people in Thessalonica, like himself, would be relieved of their troubles “when Jesus returns from heaven, with his entourage of mighty angels” (2 …
Q The first birth announcement on record about Jesus went to shepherds working the night shift, “keeping an eye on their sheep” (Luke 2:8). If God has a flair for the dramatic and a taste for metaphor, what do you think the value was in an angelic …
Q The angel Gabriel struck Zechariah mute, and possibly deaf, some experts say, merely because Zechariah asked how it would be possible for him and his wife to have a child: “I’m an old man, and my wife is up there in years, too” (Luke 1:18). Gabriel …
MY THIRD OF FOUR GRANDCHILDREN got baptized on Sunday. So I thought I would revisit an article I wrote a couple of years ago, when his brother was about to get baptized. It’s about the appropriateness of baptizing babies. When Grandson One …
