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VAPORIZING A TERRORIST in a drone attack. Is that Christian? Clearly, that’s what many Christians would love to do to those IS militants who burned alive a captured Jordanian pilot yesterday. I got an email with a tough question about that. Militants …
I DON’T LIKE some people in the Bible. Granted, I don’t know any of them. All I know about them is what I read in the Bible. Maybe if I met them face-to-face, and had coffee and a peanut butter cookie with them, and heard the rest of their story it …
After Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, “the high priests plotted to kill Lazarus because so many of the Jews were going over and believing in Jesus on account of him.” (John 12:10-11 The Message). Strange and Mysterious Stuff from the Bible, p. …
IT SHOULDN’T HAVE SURPRISED ME, but it did. Of all the blog articles I’ve written, the one most often repinned on the social media site Pinterest is The theology of Deputy Barney Fife. I wrote that thing on a whim after a random thought left me …
IF YOU PUT A BIBLE in the hands of one Christian and another Bible in the hands of a non-Christian, then you ask them each to read the same story, who do you believe would do the most thinking about what they’ve read? Here’s what I’m wondering. Would …
I’M NOT STEALING FROM JESUS, I’m helping him get his message out. At least I’m trying to help. If you read this blog much at all, you know I have a Bible-study technique I’m trying out. I’m putting the Bible into my own words. It’s not easy to do …
Jewish law allowed God’s people to eat kosher fish with scales and fins: salmon, bass, tuna. But not fish without scales and fins: catfish, sturgeon, dolphin. And no tasty shellfish: lobster, shrimp crab, oyster, clam. See Leviticus 11. Understanding …
WE GET HIGH-TECH when infertility strikes home. We can capture the little 50-micrometer swimmers, so small it would take 500 of them to stretch out an inch. And we can put them where they would do the most good. It’s acceptable today. We can plant …
FIRST OF ALL, I’M SORRY. Everyone who subscribes to my free blog articles missed Monday’s article. I wrote it. Honest I did. I just didn’t schedule it for pickup on time. Here’s the link to the article, which I think you might enjoy if you like …
I QUOTE LOTS OF BIBLE TRANSLATIONS in my books. Skeptics among my friends have asked why. Some wonder if I look around until I find a Bible translation that says what I wanted it to say. That is not the way it works. My baseline education is as a …
The unforgivable sin. Bible experts don’t agree on what it is. But most agree on this much: If you’re worried that you’ve committed it and there’s no way you can get forgiven, you didn’t commit it. “If we confess our sins to God, he can always be …
MY EDITOR SENT ME A NOTE yesterday. Just two words. “Good heavens.” He didn’t use an exclamation point. Enlightened writers and editors rarely do. Exclamation points are reserved for yelling. This was not a yeller’s “Good heavens.” It was more of an …
