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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 …
People who lived in Galilee, where Jesus grew up in what is now northern Israel, had an accent. That’s how people waiting outside the high priest’s home during Jesus’ trial recognized Peter as one of his disciples. “You must be one of them; we can …
“Joshua captured the whole land—the mountains, the Negev, the foothills, and the slopes” (Joshua 10:40). JOSHUA HAD 40 YEARS in the wilderness to perfect his strategy for conquering the Promised Land. Forty years before the invasion, Moses …
I CRIED IN GRATITUDE last weekend. Once for my son. Once for my daughter. I couldn’t help it. It wasn’t blubbery, though I’ve done that before. It was just a pair of watery eyeballs, dripping a bit. My daughter doesn’t know it, but the tears came …
The Bible only hints at how Isaiah died. Hebrews 11:37 says of Old Testament heroes, “Some were sawed in half.” That’s what one ancient Jewish book said happened to Isaiah. The Martyrdom and Ascension of Isaiah reports that Judah’s King Manasseh …
JEWS ARE GETTING KNIFED in their homeland. It’s all over the news. But I remember reading old news from Bible times, when Jews were doing the stabbings – for much the same reason the Palestinians are doing it today. They felt disenfranchised, …
SMOKED ARMPITS is one way people in ancient times used incense to make the world smell a little better. They did pretty much what I did to some rainbow trout I caught recently. I got a cedar board, soaked it in water, then cooked fillets of trout …
Jews needing to make a decision sometimes left it to the roll of the dice, figuring God controlled the dice. They used “lots,” possibly marked rocks that scholars guess was a bit like throwing dice. When the disciples needed to replace Judas, who had …
THE BIBLE WON’T HELP ME in my role as the Best Man in a wedding on Saturday. I won’t let it. I refuse to do what Samson’s Best Man did. It’s illegal. My wife would divorce me. My kids would stop letting me watch their dogs. My Christian publishers …
IT’S HARD TO WARM UP TO GOD in the Old Testament, many Christians admit. He doesn’t seem like a Jesus sort of a God. Jesus forgives a woman caught committing adultery even though Bible writers say God ordered people like her stoned to a bloody pulp. …
