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PREACHERS TURN THEIR CONGREGATION into a synagogue – temporarily – when it comes time to raise money. That’s an exaggerated way of reporting what some church historians say about the way some ministers raise money from their parishioners. Sermon …
When Joshua and the Jews needed to cross the Jordan River during springtime flood season, the river stopped flowing upstream “at a town called Adam,” (Joshua 3:16). Same thing happened in 1927. An earthquake dropped the 150-foot (45-meter) cliffs …
IT’S MY TURN to teach our Bible study class on Sunday morning. This is a session no one else wanted to teach. My Bible study group creates a one-year set of study topics. Those of us who lead the sessions sign up for the topics we want to teach. No …
If a man suspected his wife of having an affair, he could take her to a priest who would administer a test that involved drinking water mixed with “dirt from the floor of the Holy Tent,” (Numbers 5:17 NCV). That’s the worship center. What happens …
WHEN IT COMES TO RACISM, it doesn’t look like we’ve made much progress in the past 4,000 years. Racism in the Bible Yesterday I was reading the Bible story of Joseph and his brothers. His 10 older brothers sold Little Bro Joe down the river into …
IT’S NOT EASY TO BE POLITE when people come at me with harsh words. My immediate response is to retaliate with a crippling counterpunch. When we are fighting with words, I can counterpunch fairly well. I actually have to stop myself from reacting …
Before one battle, Joshua prayed, “Stop, Sun…Halt, Moon,” (Joshua 10:12 The Message). Some scholars speculate that after an all-night march, and just before a sunrise attack, Joshua wanted the sun to stop shining, not stop moving. Heat would further …
I WONDER IF I’LL HAVE A CHANCE to say a few kind words to the people I love before I die? I’m thinking about that because I’m reading in Genesis the story of Jacob in his final days. Jacob did what seemed to have been a custom in ancient times. …
NORMAL PEOPLE don’t think about the Bible during a World Series baseball game. Especially not during games in this particular World Series, what with all its nail-biting, those come-from-behind Royal rallies, and that 98 mph fireball to the head of …
Many Catholic Christians say the bread and wine of Mass become the actual body and blood of Jesus because he said, “This is my body….This is my blood,” (Luke 22:19-20 CEV). Most Protestant say the bread and wine only represent the body and blood. The …
I CAN’T TELL YOU what I said to someone yesterday. It would embarrass the person to which I said it. But I’ll tell you this. After I spoke the words, it was like someone turned a light bulb on inside that person. Huge beaming smile. Huge. I was just …
BOTH OF MY KIDS have made babies who haven’t yet inhaled their hometown air. The first one, a boy, is due to draw breath around Christmastime. That will be my daughter’s kid. The second one, we hope to know which sex later this week, is supposed to …
