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NEXT SUNDAY I’m going to do something in our Bible study group that I’ve never done before. I fear the group might never want me to do it again. We’re going to create our own Bible paraphrase of the opening verses of the Gospel of John. Those are …
CHRISTIANS ARE ON THE RUN in some parts of the world now. People of other religions want them dead. Nothing new about that. That fact is written into the story of how the church got started. Once a week I’m letting you take a peek inside the new …
NOT THAT THE BIBLE needs help. But we certainly do as we talk about it, try to make sense of it, and work on figuring out what we’re supposed to do about it. Today I’m launching my first Casual English Bible leader’s guide and …
STEPHEN, not me, another Stephen with a big mouth, quite literally talked himself to death. It’s written into the story of how the church got started. Once a week I’m letting you take a peek inside the new paraphrase of Acts—the story of what …
Ground water helped feed Noah’s Flood: “Underground water erupted like geysers ” (Genesis 7:11 Casual English Bible). Saudi Arabia’s Disi Aquifer is an underground lake half the size of Iraq. A Visual Walk Through Genesis, page 53. Casual English …
THERE ARE 355 SOULS in Hope, Kansas. It felt like the whole town crammed into the United Methodist Church there last Saturday for the funeral of 85-year-old Emma Rock. Normally, I wouldn’t have gone to the funeral—even though Emma was the mother of a …
CHRISTIANS GRUMBLED from the very beginning. It’s written into the story of how the church got started. Once a week I’m letting you take a peek inside the new paraphrase of Acts—the story of what happened after Jesus left the planet. It’s a …
The human race survives just 10 generations before God says they’ve gotten so evil that he needs a do-over. Cue Noah. A Visual Walk Through Genesis, page 50.
IT DOESN’T SEEM FAIR, but a man and his wife in the Bible give an offering for the poor, then they drop dead. Right on the spot. It’s part of the story of how the church got started. Once a week I’m letting you take a peek inside the new …
MY SON TRIED TO SAVE A TROUT this past weekend. We were fly-fishing in the Missouri Ozarks on a cold, spring-fed stream. It’s a trout ranch. Property owners stock the stream with plenty of trout. There’s enough trout that the license people buy is …
The ancient version of the Bible used to create the King James Version puts the death of Methuselah (age 969) in the same year as Noah’s Flood. Numbers used in the first Greek translation add up to him living 14 years after the Flood. A stowaway? A …
I’M NOT A FAN of the legal system. I avoid TV shows about lawyers, trials, and court TV. It’s because I don’t have a good feeling about how the law operates. It seems to run a bit like an Old Western. The bad guys hire a gunslinger. The good guys …
