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THIS JOB of paraphrasing the New Testament gives me a headache sometimes. Like yesterday. I’m working in Colossians now, and I spent some time yesterday with my face in my hands, trying to figure out how to put some of Paul’s abstract ideas into …
LADIES MARCHING IN WASHINGTON DC this week during the inauguration will include at least two of my friends. A woman in my Bible study group has taken her daughter, a student at Kansas State University, to join the march. Not everyone in Kansas is …
“He’s going to be important to God. He [John] won’t drink any wine or hard liquor. He’ll be filled up, however, with the Holy Spirit—even while he’s still growing inside his mother.” Luke 1:15 Casual English Bible Casual English Bible Casual English …
PEOPLE TOLD ME NOT TO DO some of the best things I’ve ever done. Colleagues advised me against quitting work at the denominational headquarters where I spent a dozen years writing and editing magazines and books. They said I shouldn’t give that up …
“A lot of people have started writing down the stories about what happened here, where we live. They got their information first-hand, from eyewitnesses such as the original disciples. It seems like a good idea for me to write down what I know, too, …
I LOVED PARAPHRASING THE HAPPY BOOK of Ephesians. I finished it last week and posted it on the Casual English Bible website. I even uploaded an accompanying leader’s guide and atlas, which can be downloaded as a PDF for a buck. Paul cared a …
I’M TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER the Cuban missile crisis, when the world teetered on the brink of a nuclear shootout between America and the Soviet Union. Insiders alert at the time were terrified. I wonder if that depth of fear is what many Americans feel …
Rebekah agreed to leave her home in what is now Turkey on one day’s notice and move 500 miles (800 km) south to marry a 40-year-old bachelor she had never met: Isaac. It was love at first sight, for Isaac. No word about Rebekah’s thought. A Visual …
WE’RE AFRAID. More than half the population of the United States is deeply disturbed about what is coming in 2017. Our nation is about to get a radically different kind of a president…one that the majority of the voters rejected, by about …
I JUST ADDED EPHESIANS to the Casual English Bible, paraphrasing Paul into everyday English. Paul doesn’t always make sense. Plenty of times his writing leaves Bible experts scrambling with guesses. Several of those times show up in his letter …
Most Bible experts say that Abraham’s near sacrifice of his son Isaac was a foreshadowing of Jesus’s sacrifice. What Abraham was willing to do with his son, God the Father actually did with his son. A Visual Walk Through Genesis, pages 98-99.
LIKE YOU’VE NEVER HEARD BEFORE, here’s the Christmas story from the new Casual English Bible I’ve been paraphrasing. I loved working with this cherished story. I hope it shows. Joseph goes home to Bethlehem 2:1. About the time Mary …
