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An Iraqi flood story from hundreds of years before Moses could have written Genesis tells about another man who built a boat to survive a flood. He took his family and animals aboard. He even released a dove and raven like Noah did to scout for land. …
CHRISTIANS WEREN’T SAFE IN SYRIA once upon a time. That was 2,000 years ago. The times are not always changing. 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. …
GOD KNOWS how Jesus would handle this presidential election cycle. Jesus might take the opportunity to spend 40 days in the wilderness. It’s tempting, I know. Or he might call the candidates by animal names that would describe them. He called King …
Explorers have searched Mt. Ararat for traces of Noah’s boat. But they need to widen their search area. The Bible says the boat came to halt “somewhere in the Ararat mountain range,” (Genesis 8:4, Casual English Bible). That’s a bit …
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.
