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HOW CAN WE HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS? We’ve never met him. I’m talking eyeball to eyeball. Fist bump to fist bump. We haven’t met Jesus that way. I grew up with Christians asking people the spiritual barometer question, “Do you have a …
In one fleeting sentence, Paul says people are “being baptized for those who are dead,” (1 Corinthians 15:29 NLT). No one today seems to know why. One guess: relatives getting baptized for a family member who converted but never got the chance to …
LIKE THE ANNOUNCER for a starring act, John wasn’t on stage long. His ministry may have lasted just a year or so. But it was long enough to draw a crowd—and then to point the people to Jesus. Luke implies that John got his first message from God “In …
I WILL PROBABLY ALWAYS VOTE AGAINST putting a stained glass window in a church. I love stained glass windows. I’ve spent hours enjoying them in churches throughout the Middle East and Europe. We have gorgeous ones here in the States, too. My own …
BEST KNOWN FOR GETTING SWALLOWED by a huge fish, Jonah bears yet another incredible distinction among God’s prophets. He gave only one prophecy in the book named after him. And it didn’t come true. Prophet on the run If Jonah had gotten his way, …
Some scholars say Jonah’s fish tale was a fish tale, not fact. Unlike most prophecies, there’s just one prophecy in Jonah—and it doesn’t come true. Also the style of writing with its jarring conclusion, which leaves the readers scratching their head, …
IF YOU GET THE BOOK I’m giving away today, you will be in elite company with just five people on earth: my mother my two kids my co-leader in Bible study and a reader who would probably be the president of my fan club if I had a fan club My wife …
WEDNESDAY IS HUMP DAY, halfway through the week. Come lunch, it’s a downhill ride to Friday, as the clock marks laps. Just for fun, I thought you might enjoy reading what the Bible says about having fun. Most of us who read the Bible know that it …
From one law—don’t work on the Sabbath—Jewish scholars created hundreds of laws to define work, so people would know what not to do on the “Sabbath day of complete rest,” (Exodus 32:15 NLT). No cooking, great for the ladies (cold meals planned ahead, …
A READER SURPRISED ME with a Bible question a few days ago. Here’s the question. It comes from a gent I’ll identify only as Larry, since I don’t have his permission to use his name: I’d love to hear any of your comments on I Samuel 16….Samuel …
A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN, Psalm 13 seems to perfectly express what we’ve come to think about Friday the 13th. At least the first few verses do. The last verse, however, reflects what I think about Friday the 13th. That’s the day I met my wife, at a …
VALENTINE’S DAY is coming. Saturday. I’ve already sent a box of chocolates to Mom, signing it for Dad, who died in 2001. He always gave her a heart-shaped box of chocolates. My brothers and I kept up that tradition for Dad by sending Mom chocolates …
