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I’M DRIVING ALONG, eager to get home. I need to finish that hour-long video. It had been a pain in the neck. It’s B-roll footage I shot recently in the Northwest. I hope to use it in future videos. But it has some problems. I had no plan …
I WISH PEOPLE FULL OF HATE would please stop shooting to death people in my church. Pastor’s daughter shot in head This time, one of the pastor’s daughters—shot in the head last Friday by a stray bullet fired from a hundred yards away. An …
IF YOU’RE LISTENING, I’ll tell you how God’s Spirit talks to me sometimes when I’m writing. He sometimes gives me words and phrases and sentences from out of the blue. Words I never would have considered. They just pop into my head. …
HERE’S A PEEK at what I’ve been up to lately. I’ve been paraphrasing the Book of Revelation, and creating support material such as maps. (The map with this feature is an early attempt that I’ll polish later.) I’ve …
A KINDLY GENT GENTLY PUSHED ME on the very first sentence in my paraphrase of the Casual English Bible. I released a “welcome to the Casual English Bible” video last week, which he saw. Then he went to Genesis 1:1. Here’s how the revered King James …
SHORT NOTE. A marketing company sent me an email saying they noticed I didn’t have a welcome video for my Casual English Bible website. They offered to produce one for me. I decided not. I have a camera, a tripod, and all my teeth, though some …
I’M STILL WORKING MY WAY through paraphrasing Revelation for the Casual English Bible. I won’t post Revelation until I finish all 22 chapters. But here’s a sneak peek at an engaging passage that might leave some folks wondering if …
I SPENT WEDNESDAY paraphrasing Revelation 3 for the Casual English Bible. I won’t post Revelation until I finish all 22 chapters. But here’s a sneak peek at my first, unproofed draft of the short letter to Christians in the church at …
I WAS SURPRISED to read what a Roman dog owner in Jesus’ day said in tribute to the pet dog he buried. I was surprised because I know that Romans had a ritual of crucifying some dogs each year. Romans crucified the dogs for a reason that makes …
I GOT OVERRUN by YouTube viewers this week. Some 220,000 of them. I have no idea why my video What Romans said about crucifixion attracts such a diverse crowd: Loving Christians Crazy drunk Christians Kind atheists Killer atheists who recommend …
I READ ATHEISTS just about every day. It’s not my choice. It’s my job. I have created enough YouTube videos about the Bible that Google analytics tells me I have about 150-200 people watching my videos every hour. It’s a little intimidating to think …
JESUS ON THE CROSS. That’s the first-known picture of Jesus, etched into a jasper oval about an inch long (30 mm), and probably worn on someone’s ring or as a necklace or bracelet. It dates to around a century and a half after the time of Jesus. So …
