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TIME FOR A SPIRITUAL GUT CHECK. Miller status: • Upper respiratory infection. A tenor, I can now sing lower than Johnny Cash. And he’s dead. • 10 degrees outside. And Buddy the Dog still wants me to walk him. Let’s wait till noon. • Computer fussy. I …

HOW MANY TIMES does a body have to die? Isn’t once bad enough? Yet a mysterious writer who called himself John wrote in the last book of the Bible that good and godly people “will not be hurt by the second death” (Revelation 2:11). What “second …

SWINGING A CANE LIKE A CLUB, has as elderly person ever come at you with something less than peaceful intentions? It happened to me recently. The experience is sending me to the Bible to see if there’s any good advice for my situation. I’m looking …

IF PRAYER WORKS like my seminary prof said he thought it might, I’ll be asking for your prayer support today. My prof, years ago, said he pictured prayer like a pipeline to heaven. He said in his mind’s eye he sees God pouring out his grace on all of …

JESUS HATED FAMILIES. That’s the impression he leaves with many folks today when they read his mission statement: “I came to turn sons against their fathers, daughters against their mothers, and daughters-in-law against their mothers-in-law. Your …

I’M NEGOTIATING A CONTRACT for a new book. And by “I’m” I mean my agent. I don’t know if you’ve heard that most writers don’t make much money. But if you haven’t, they don’t. I have sold well over 1 million books. Most of my books …

WHEN I SAY I have free review books for “virgin” readers – and I do – I don’t mean virgin in the biblical sense. I mean virgin in a marketing sense. Your mailbox remains untouched by any free books of mine. Here’s what’s going on. I’ve sent out a lot …

ONE OF THE STRANGEST laws in the Bible, as far as I’m concerned, is this one about what should happen to a man who rapes a Jewish virgin. “The man who raped her has to give her father fifty pieces of silver. He has to marry her because he took …

I’M MAKING THIS SHORT because I’ve been working all day on a new Bible video that I should be able to release soon. And I forgot about this blog article. So there. Then I got the book cover you’re seeing above. This is for the book …

IT SEEMED AN ODD GETAWAY for church guys. Fly-fishing. What’s that got to do with church? Fly-fishing is just a normal guy thing to do. Not a church guy thing to do. But we have an enthusiastic fly-fisherman in our church. He went to the pastor and …

IF YOU’RE NORMAL, you are going to hate this Bible Question of the Week. Not that you are absolutely abnormal if you like the question. Or that my friend who is asking the question – Wayne Sacchi – is 10 degrees shy of a snowflake. It’s just that …

I GET FREE BOOKS from my publishers. It’s in my contract. I keep a few for posterity. I give a few to family, friends, and folks in my church Bible study. But the rest – the vast majority of the books – I give away to people I’ve never met. I started …