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THERE’S A BASKETBALL TEAM I was rooting for in the NCAA March Madness tournament of champions (past tense; they lost). So I’ve had games on the mind. Bible folks didn’t play basketball. The Canadian hadn’t invented it yet: Dr. James Naismith, a Phys. …
Philistines stole Israel’s most sacred object, the Ark of the Covenant, which held the Ten Commandments. Then sent it on tour as a war trophy. “A plague of tumors” broke out everywhere it went. Philistines sent it back to the Jews, with an offering: …
I’VE GOT WINDOWS ON MY MIND. That’s because builder’s grade windows are just a slight upgrade from wax paper in a cardboard frame. They don’t last. Builder’s grade for King Solomon featured the cedars of Lebanon floated down the Mediterranean Sea and …
SOME SOULS I KNOW have been done dirt. Three recent situations come to mind, two of which I can’t tell you about, so I won’t bother with the third. Here’s a Bible blues song for those souls and for all souls who feel mistreated. Please don’t take all …
ONE OF THE STRANGEST STORIES IN THE BIBLE is about Jacob wrestling someone he seems to think is God. Jacob is standing by a stream in the middle of the night and a “man” shows up. They start wrestling. What’s not normal about that? Jacob is the …
The sons of Israel’s high priest, Eli, “slept with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting,” (1 Samuel 2:22, NIV). The men, Hophni and Phineas, also pilfered top-grade meat they were supposed to sacrifice to God. They died in a …
I KNEW I HAD A TOUGH WEEK AHEAD when I wrote the blog article: Psalm for one tough day. That’s why I wrote it. I was suiting up. I don’t know if it helped. We can strap on all the Bible verses we want, along with the belt of truth. body armor of …
SOME DAYS STINK. I have days like that. I thought, why not get ready for it. I’ll put a psalm in my pocket for a rotten stinker of a day. A stinker of a day that involves people in my face. Yeah, I’ll do that. How about an excerpt from the Double …
IF ANYONE DESERVED A STINKER of a father-in-law, it was Jacob. Jacob means “Heel,” and he certainly was. Not because he was born holding onto the heel of his twin brother Esau, which is how he got his name. But because of what he did to earn his …
A roll of quarters, a bag of wine, and five bushels of barley is pretty much what Hosea had to pay to get back his wife who had run away and perhaps sold herself into prostitution. It was six ounces (170 grams) of silver, not quite the weight of an …
I GOT ONE MEASLY COMMENT on my Facebook page when I posted a link to Wednesday’s blog article about Noah’s ark, with the accompanying new video: Noah’s Art, Looking for a boat 3 miles above sea level. Here’s the comment. “It’s just one of many …
NOAH’S ARK didn’t necessarily land on Mount Ararat, an extinct volcano in eastern Turkey. The Bible says Noah’s barge landed in the “mountains of Ararat,” a range large enough to cover Kansas. For the past 200 years, however, explorers have targeted …
