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FROM MORNING TILL EVENING, skipping lunch and dinner, I spent my time creating a Genesis map from thin air. The sun is setting now. The stomach is growling. Buddy the Dog wants some attention. So instead of writing a blog article for you, I thought …
Apostle Paul expressed his view of death in beautiful poetry. “When this mortal body gets a permanent upgrade to immortality, the Bible prophecies will be fulfilled: ‘Death got chewed up and spit out. Hey Death, you’re a loser. Hey Death, …
IT’S DONE. I’ve posted the beta edition of 1, 2 Corinthians live on the Casual English Bible website. It comes with free maps, notes, and discussion questions. A 72-page leader’s guide and atlas is available as a PDF download for …
CHRISTIANS DON’T APPROVE of the way the apostle Paul took an offering. Some Christians, anyhow. If he pastored their church, they might not get mad enough to leave. But they’d write a blog article about it, if they could. I’ve certainly written …
Jesus: “Give and you’ll receive. What you get back will be like a big basket fully loaded…it will be like a bucket so full that it runs over the top and spills into your lap. However much you decide to give, that same level of generosity or …
CHRISTIANS ARE PESSIMISTS, and content to be so. Not all. Maybe not most. But many. They look at the world and say all is as it should be, given the fallen nature of human beings. Like the rest of us, these Christians see: narcissistic political …
I RAN OUT OF DAY. I was working on maps for 1, 2 Corinthians late into the evening last night…too late to write a blog article for today. Instead, I thought I’d give you a sneak look at what’s coming. This is a draft of one of the …
Jesus: “Don’t judge people and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn and you won’t be condemned. Forgive and you’ll be forgiven.” Luke 6:37 Casual English Bible I’ll grant you, there’s exaggeration in those words. But there’s a measure …
I’M WONDERING WHY the Bible doesn’t have more upbeat stuff to say about the joys of kids and grandkids. For me, my life’s highest highs spin around my family—especially my kids…and now I’m adding my grandkids. As far as earthbound joys and …
PARDON ME for taking Monday off to enjoy Labor Day with my family. The families of my daughter and son came over to help my wife and I enjoy some trout that my son and I caught on a church fly-fishing retreat about a week ago. My son-in-laws parents …
Jesus: “People, love your enemies, do good, and loan what you have, expecting nothing back. When you can start living like that…you will be considered one of the children of the Most High God.” Luke 6:35 Casual English Bible Preview of atlas maps for …
PAUL WROTE AN ANGRY LETTER. It shows up at the tail end of 2 Corinthians, as chapters 10-13. Most Bible experts seem to think those chapters were not part of the letter preserved in the earlier nine chapters. The break between the comparatively …
