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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. …
OF ALL THE MIRACLES Jesus could have performed to launch his ministry—healing the sick or raising the dead—his first miracle on record was to liven up a party with enough wine to get more than 1,000 people legally drunk. At least by today’s measure …
I LET A DOG DIE. This picture of a dog came up on my Facebook news feed, posted by a Friend. Black Labrador Retriever. Two years old. The picture of the little fellow inside the back of the dogcatcher’s truck looked like a sad brother to my Black …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. And it comes from Matthieu Sabiti, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He wins a free book for his trouble. Here’s his question—incredibly pertinent for him, given the pillaging and warfare that he and his fellow …
IT MAY SOUND IRREVERENT but I think of Sunday worship in church as Show and Tell. The worship service is the Show. The Bible study or Sunday School—if your seeker-sensitive church staff will let you call it Sunday School—is the Tell. That’s where we …
“HEY GOD. Where are you?” “Did I get it right? Do you really exist?” Sometimes I ask that out loud, looking up at the sky from my office window. That’s because sometimes it doesn’t feel like he exists. It feels like I got it wrong. For heaven’s sake, …
IT HAS BEEN RAINING all morning. It hasn’t rained this way since I can’t remember when. The ground has been thirsty. And I’ve grown weary of being stuck between blue skies and hard-packed dirt. It’s the dead of winter, but I’ve been writing all …
I’M LUCKY. I have a pastor who preaches like he’s talking to me over a cup of coffee—which is how I try to write, by the way. Nothing stodgy. This past Sunday he told a Cherokee story I had never heard—at least not that I recall. It was a story just …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Erin Drew. She wins a free book for asking the question. I have a girlfriend who lived with abuse by a stepfather and a mother who denied it….We had always heard so many sermons/read so many things about …
CHRISTIAN POLITICIANS. Let’s assume they: exist—in the various political parties want to make the country a better place aren’t afraid to do the right thing even if it could cost them re-election. Let’s brainstorm a vision for them. When my pastor, …
