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THIS IS ME CHECKING IN. I just finished and posted the map shown with this feature. It portrays the highlands of the Promised Land. I made it for Joshua 11, and the story of the Israelites wrapping up their conquest of the hills in their new …
Joshua is now live on the Casual English Bible website, but the concern is over all the dead...and why God ordered ancestors of the Jews to commit genocide.
I’M MAKING MAPS for Deuteronomy in the Casual English Bible and I wanted to show the twin mountains where Joshua and the Israelites had to read out loud the fine print in their contract with God: Good news for following God’s law and bad …
I LOST A GOOD FRIEND last week—a close colleague. Robert V. Huber, retired Reader’s Digest Book editor. He was there at the beginning, when I launched my freelance writing career in the mid-90s. He edited Bible background books, and he was one of the …
THE FIRST eBOOK I’VE PUBLISHED on my own is The Casual English Bible® Atlas, Twin Maps Edition. It’s the kind of 3D atlas that Bible study leaders and pastors have been asking me to release. They wanted one version of the map loaded with …
WE’VE JUST RELEASED OUR FIRST Casual English Bible® e-book: The Casual English Bible® Atlas, Twin Maps Edition This is just a heads up, especially for Bible study leaders and pastors who have been asking for an e-book version of this particular set …
THE BIBLE BOOK OF NUMBERS is now live on the Casual English Bible…and with some pretty cool maps, I think. The map featured with this short note shows where the Israelites staged before attacking Jericho. They camped for what seems to have been …
JEALOUS HUSBANDS ARE IN THE BIBLE. Along with a remedy for a man’s jealously of his wife. If he fears she’s sleeping around, he takes her to the priest who makes her drink dirt water and dried ink scraped from a written curse. If she gets …
I HAVE BEEN HOUNDED IN MY HEAD FOR A MONTH. It’s about a question someone begged me to answer. “I’m begging to have questions [answered] about some of Paul’s attitudes.” Others beg to know why the God of the Old Testament would order Israelites to …
I GOT A TOUGH QUESTION THIS WEEK. It was about some of the Apostle Paul’s seemingly unChristlike attitudes and bad advice. The writer didn’t ID which ones. He didn’t need to. Paul sent runaway slaves back to their slave masters. …
IT’S ODD ADVICE FROM A BEAT-UP PREACHER sitting in jail. Apostle Paul wrote the people of Philippi, a city in what is now northern Greece, “I’m imprisoned” (Philippians 1:13 Casual English Bible). Then he said, “Focus on …
I’VE BEEN CREATING YouTube and Vimeo videos about the Bible for several years, with good and bad results. The videos have been seen by millions of people, which is good. But have you tried reading comments on YouTube? That’s a tough crowd. We …
