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500 YEARS BEFORE BIRTH OF JESUS. A prophet named Zechariah said a king of peace would one day ride a donkey into Jerusalem. (Casual English Bible map for Zechariah 9) I DEPEND ON GOOGLE. I depend on this company when I want to: find something learn …
I’LL KEEP IT SHORT. I haven’t done an interview for several years. Keith Ferrin, an author and host of BibleTalk interviewed me recently and released the interview last week: Stephen M. Miller on BibleTalk. I should have posted it sooner, …
I DON’T BELIEVE I can work today. I find myself angry with God again and pummeled by the riptides within me. Over the death of a dog. This happens when someone I love dies. Like my two younger brothers a couple years ago. And Juneau, the beautiful …
HOSEA SLEPT HERE. Prophet Hosea lived, loved, and ministered in the breakaway northern Jewish kingdom of Israel, with its capital in Samaria. Hosea warned Israel that God would send invaders to take away the land and deport the Jewish people who …
JERUSALEM. I’ve struggled for years to produce a fairly decent map of Jerusalem. What makes it tough is that we need higher resolution elevation data for tighter scenes like the one pictured here. But it’s not freely available for Israel. …
HEAVEN IN SIGHT. What’s the first question you would ask someone if you knew they were seeing heaven? Photo by Enrique/Pixabay When I hear Johnny Mathis sing “The Twelfth of Never,” I remember asking Linda to marry me. I asked while Johnny sang …
BORN IN BETHLEHEM. When Jewish scholars 2,000 years ago wanted to find out where the coming Great King would be born, the Messiah, they turned to the prophet Micah. About 700 years before Jesus was born in Bethlehem, a little-known Bible prophet …
THOSE WE’VE LOST. I took this photo of my brother a few years ago, at our uncle’s funeral. Then, two years ago, I buried this brother. Six months after that, my other brother. Is this why the older we get, the more we feel sad on those …
WE THOUGHT PAGANS BEAT JESUS TO CHRISTMAS. That’s what historians have taught us: Christians started celebrating Christmas because Romans were already throwing a party to the sun God Sol on December 25. It looks like historians got that wrong. …
THERE ARE SUPER-WEALTHY PEOPLE who don’t cheat widows, overcharge the poor for food, and kick the down and out up and down. But not in the Bible book of Amos. In Amos, the rich are the bad guys. Not that all the rich are bad. Just all the …
I CRIED EVERY DAY THIS WEEK. I know that’s an odd thing to admit in a blog feature intended for people interested in the Bible. I could have written about what the prophet Amos said to rich people 2,700 years ago. That’s where I am in paraphrasing …
ON THE BRINK OF ELECTION DAY there’s a Bible passage I think is appropriate for people of all political persuasions. No matter how this turns out, about half the nation is going to feel like they are losing their country. We might find reason …
