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RATS. Bible experts tell us to skip John 5:4 because it doesn’t belong in the Bible. In fact, you probably won’t find it in your Bible. Go ahead, look. Most Bibles today jump from verse 3 to 5, as though verse 4 doesn’t belong in good …
Here’s an excerpt from the bestselling Complete Guide to the Bible. It’s a short sidebar feature in the section of the book devoted to Genesis. BEFORE THE DEVASTATING FLOOD, people generally lived for centuries according to the Bible. Some lived …
YOU WOULDN’T WANT to hear me sing. Trust me. But in the evenings, these days, that’s what I’m doing. Singing. Out loud. With the windows closed. Tight. Fortunately for my wife, she works night shift. Only Buddy the Dog has to listen. Here’s why I’m …
IT’S THE BIBLE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. Again. For my earlier take on the question: see Once saved, always saved? For my explanation of why I’m answering the question again: see the part of my brain that processes memory fading on a Friday afternoon as …
I KNOW THE MOMENT my heart busted during the funeral yesterday of an elderly lady I never met. By “busted,” I mean a physical change in my chest. It felt like a surge of blood, adrenalin, or something hot rushing into every artery, vein, and vessel …
A PEEK INTO HEAVEN. Is that what these near-death experience people are seeing? That’s a follow up question I got to Monday’s Bible Question of the Week: What happens to dead Christians? One of the popular theories is that Christians are in a deep …
BIBLE GUY is what one the top execs in Christian publishing called me at the annual book conference last week. Surprised the dickens out of me. He rattled off the names of earlier Bible Guys. Gents I knew by their top-selling Bible reference books. …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. Sylvia Chillcott gets a free book for asking the question: Why do people say a person is no longer in the grave at death, but their soul has gone to heaven? The Bible tells us that those who are asleep will be taken up …
IT’S A TAD EMBARRASSING now that I think about it. Who hugs a Mennonite stranger at a book convention? Me. I couldn’t help myself. Actually, the problem might have been that I didn’t stop long enough to think about what I was doing. My wife and I …
THERE’S ONE BATTLE I often have to fight when I send a book off to a publisher. It’s not usually a pitched battle – though on one occasion I withdrew my manuscript from a publisher because of it. The trouble starts with my mission: I write books …
Here’s a bit more of what I started in yesterday’s blog. I’m in St. Louis at the annual convention of Christian booksellers. I’m scheduled for some media interviews along with meetings with my editors and my agent. …
As this blog post makes its way to the light of day, I’m in St. Louis at the annual convention of Christian booksellers. I’m scheduled for some media interviews along with meetings with my editors and my agent. There’s a lot of …
