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OUT OF THE BLUE Jesus tells his disciples to watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees. Honestly, I wonder if some of the disciples rolled their eyes and whispered something like, “Add that to the list of his oddball sayings.” As Mark tells the story, …
YOU DESERVE AN ANSWER to the punch-in-the-gut question I asked in Tuesday’s article, “When Jesus sounds like a myth.” “There are stories in the Bible about Jesus that, as far as many Bible newcomers are concerned, sound like Greek myths. Here’s the …
LET ME ASK a question that’s going to feel like a punch in the gut. There are stories in the Bible about Jesus that, as far as many Bible newcomers are concerned, sound like Greek myths. Here’s the question: Why would we believe stories about Jesus …
Q Why do you think Paul was so bitterly opposed to fellow Jewish Christians who sincerely believed that Jesus wanted people to continue to honor and obey the Jewish laws that God gave them through Moses (Galatians 2)? After all, Jesus himself had …
WHAT A WRENCHING YEAR for Christians who follow the news and who believe that we should help make the world a better place. Yesterday was a tough day, too. We lost the Rev. Billy Graham. In addition, many of us listened to teenagers talk about what …
Q When Joseph’s brothers apologized again for selling him into slavery, Joseph said: “You wanted to hurt me. I know that. But you need to know something, too. God wanted to help me and many others as well. He turned the bad thing you did into …
I’VE BEEN WAITING nervously to release tomorrow’s newsletter/blog. For today, I simply wanted to let you know the newsletter is coming tomorrow. And it’s coming with a new video, which is why I’m uneasy. This video is the most …
WE CHRISTIANS start thinking about the suffering of Jesus next Wednesday. That’s the beginning of Lent, a 40-day countdown to the Crucifixion. Some folks suffer with Jesus by giving up stuff. Like chocolate, Coca Cola, or all TV but the …
TWO BIBLE BOOKS would make wonderful fortune cookies. Proverbs, in the Old Testament James, in the New Testament I don’t mean to be disrespectful. But these two books are packed with pithy, wise, and wonderful tips for living a good and godly …
JAMES HAS GREAT ONE-LINERS. Try these: “A body that doesn’t breathe is a corpse. Faith that doesn’t get up and go and do good things is just as dead” (James 2:26 Casual English Bible). “What we do expresses our faith, it completes it” (James 2:22 …
WE SHOULD PITY THE RICH, the Bible says. I’d rather take my money back. I’m talking about the money that rich people got by paying lawmakers to shift financial laws away from working grunts and toward the gruntmasters. By “paying lawmakers,” I mean …
CALL ME A PAGAN if you like, but there are some things Paul wrote in Romans that I think he got wrong. He said he was writing a letter to some people in Rome. He never said he was transcribing a message directly from God for people everywhere for the …
