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CHRISTIANS SHOULDN’T HAVE SNOW BLOWERS. Not if they: Want to save time Have neighbors I know this because I bought a snow blower. It does not save time…because I have neighbors. We’ve had a pair of foot-high snowstorms in the past week. Each …
I DUG OUT of 12 inches of snow late last week. It looks like I’m going to get to do it again, early this week. Today, in fact. I’m prepared. I bought a snowblower last fall. We didn’t get any snow last year. I figured that was because my next-door …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from a gent who’d like to remain anonymous. He wins a free book for his trouble. Here’s his question: Why do most Christians say Jesus is God when the Bible uses the phrase “son of God”? There’s nothing divine …
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, …
