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Q Paul tells the Corinthian Christians what love looks like. He does it in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, in the Bible’s famous Love Chapter, which is often read at weddings. Which one-liner do you think would resonate best with most people? A It …
WE CHRISTIANS start thinking about the suffering of Jesus next Wednesday. That’s the beginning of Lent, a 40-day countdown to the Crucifixion. Some folks suffer with Jesus by giving up stuff. Like chocolate, Coca Cola, or all TV but the …
TWO BIBLE BOOKS would make wonderful fortune cookies. Proverbs, in the Old Testament James, in the New Testament I don’t mean to be disrespectful. But these two books are packed with pithy, wise, and wonderful tips for living a good and godly …
Q New Testament writers say Jesus descended from the tribe of Judah (Matthew 1:3). How can we defend the fact that the father of the tribe from which Jesus descended had twins with his daughter-in-law? (Genesis 38) We can save for a later discussion …
JAMES HAS GREAT ONE-LINERS. Try these: “A body that doesn’t breathe is a corpse. Faith that doesn’t get up and go and do good things is just as dead” (James 2:26 Casual English Bible). “What we do expresses our faith, it completes it” (James 2:22 …
WE SHOULD PITY THE RICH, the Bible says. I’d rather take my money back. I’m talking about the money that rich people got by paying lawmakers to shift financial laws away from working grunts and toward the gruntmasters. By “paying lawmakers,” I mean …
Q Each of the names of Jacob’s sons means something, especially to the mothers. Which name moves you most? Reuben: Hebrew for “See, a son.” “Maybe now my husband will love me, since I have given him a son” (29:32). Simeon: Sounds like the Hebrew term …
CALL ME A PAGAN if you like, but there are some things Paul wrote in Romans that I think he got wrong. He said he was writing a letter to some people in Rome. He never said he was transcribing a message directly from God for people everywhere for the …
I LAUGHED AT A PREACHER last weekend. Not with. Note to my pastor: Relax. It wasn’t you. This time. The preacher was on a DVD, so he couldn’t hear me. Actually, the guy says he’s not a preacher. But if he’s not a preacher, he’s facing in the wrong …
Q LIFE APPLICATION. Paul’s request to Christians in Philippi is that they get along with each other: “Work through any disagreements you have and reach compromises so you’re all pulling in the same direction, united in love, spirit, and purpose” …
PAUL COMES UP WITH GREAT ONE-LINERS for the letter he wrote to Christians in Rome. Here are some I enjoyed over the past few weeks, as I paraphrased my way through the letter for the Casual English Bible. You can see God if you look. “They know the …
SO I’M SITTING IN MY OFFICE yesterday, listening to Microsoft Narrator read back to me what I wrote in my paraphrase of Romans. I stop and reset the speed of the reading, so it reads faster. I’m in a hurry to get this easy-reading version of an …
