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THAT’S WHAT A READER of mine says she is planning to do. Close up shop on her second marriage. She’s divorced. She has been married to her second husband for four years. And she says she now thinks Jesus has given her one of two options: Reconcile …
I’LL MAKE THIS QUICK. No Bible blog today. Here’s why. I got a 1-minute phone call from my daughter, Rebecca, at 6:40 p.m. on Tuesday. “I had a wreck. I tried to call Jon [fiancé] but he’s not answering. I think I totaled the car. Can you come and …
I LEARNED THIS WEEK that I’m related to Lady Godiva (born about 1040). She was a noblewoman who, naked, rode a horse through the British village of Coventry to protest the high taxes that her husband had imposed on his tenants. The gene link to the …
DELETED SCENES show up in the movies. How about one from a book? Here’s a sidebar the editor decided to delete from Understanding Jesus: A Guide to His Life and Times. I think it’s interesting. And it illustrates how some skeptical Bible experts have …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. And it comes from Erin Cottrell in Lawrence, Kansas. Go Jayhawks. Erin wins a free book for her question: “I was reading Acts this morning, chapter 3. In this chapter, there is a lame man who has been unable to …
IT COMES AS A SURPRISE to most folks, but one of the techniques Jesus used to heal the blind is very much like some remedies that show up in a first-century Roman collection of 37 science books called Natural History, written by a Roman named Pliny. …
IT’S A BONUS QUESTION OF THE WEEK. A Valentine’s Day Special Edition. I got this question a few days ago from an emotionally exhausted divorcee who has remarried a divorced man. Both divorced. Both remarried. They’re struggling over what Jesus …
ROMAN DOCTORS in Jesus’ day served up bizarre treatment for common afflictions. No wonder Jesus the healer became popular so quickly. Here’s some of the treatment pulled from a first-century book by a Roman science writer, Pliny (AD …
ONE OF JESUS’ MOST INTRIGUING medical cases was this: “A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding. She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, …
SPECIAL NOTICE: VALENTINE’S DAY GIFT Barbour Publishing has agreed to give you a free Kindle download of my new release: Understanding Jesus, A Guide to His Life and Times. It will be available for one day only, Thursday, April 14. Go to this …
TIME WAS RIPE for God to once again step into Jewish history. Many observant Jews, if not most, believed it. They believed it because of what they read in their Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament. Prophets several centuries before Jesus …
WHAT SIGN will signal your return and the end of the world?” (Matthew 24:3, NLT) Seems like a simple enough question the disciples asked Jesus. But given his convoluted answer, you’d think a five-year-old had just asked Daddy where babies come from. …
