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Obadiah is the shortest book in the Bible because it doesn’t take long to warn people that God is going to exterminate their nation—kill it so dead that it never comes back. It takes only one chapter, about as long as Abraham Lincoln’s famously …
THE TITLE IS THE STORY. I’m deep into my paraphrase of the Bible. The New Testament is written. This morning I did the math for my agent. He wanted to know how far I had gotten into the marathon mission of paraphrasing, mapping, and footnoting …
YESTERDAY I FINISHED CREATING 50 BIBLE MAPS FOR ISAIAH. And I wrapped up my first pass at the paraphrase of Isaiah. All 66 chapters. Some beautiful. Some disgusting. I don’t mean to seem disrespectful toward the prophet or the Bible, but how …
JESUS SHOWS UP 700 years before his birth, in a dramatic prophecy from the Book of Isaiah: Isaiah 53. At least that’s what most Christian scholars seem to say. They say Jesus is the mysterious Servant of God who suffers and dies for the sins of …
NINE LINES IN ISAIAH just made it onto a document I’m creating called “Favorite Bible Verses.” Here they are: “When others insult you, Don’t let it get to you. When others mistreat you, Don’t let it beat you. Those …
THIS IS A BIBLE MAP EXPERIMENT that will cost me. In the ballpark of $100. I’m going to give away a Bible map mounted on canvas to someone selected by one of my grandchildren who can’t read, but who can circle a random name with a crayon. …
I USED TO LOSE TIME trying to find one of the 500 Bible maps I created for the Casual English Bible. I had to pearl dive into different Bible books where I thought I might have used it. Now I can find a map within a few seconds, with the help of a …
IT HAS SURPRISED ME how often Bible translators have to guess what the Bible is trying to say. They guess because of unknown words missing words words that look like they dripped off someone else’s papyrus reed. I’m hip-deep in Isaiah’s 66 chapters …
It came as a text message from my daughter. That was the moment I found out a shooter had killed a classroom of elementary school students in Texas yesterday. I was standing in my kitchen, still wet from my walk in the rain to the elementary school. …
UNUSUAL DAY. I didn’t write a word until now, 7:30 in the evening. And I didn’t get around to vacuuming. This will be fast because I haven’t eaten supper, either. I discovered last night that one of the things we neglected to do on …
I INVITED READERS to send a Bible quiz. Short ones. This one comes from Wayne Sacchi, in Knoxville, Tennessee. He has been a reader, encourager, and sometimes gentle critic of mine for more years than I can remember. So, he gets first shot at trying …
I didn’t know what to give Mom for a Happy Mother’s Day. Frail, newly blind. Can't have much candy. Can't see flowers. So, I sent her this.
