Award-Winning, Bestselling Christian Author
I LAUGHED AT A PREACHER last weekend. Not with. Note to my pastor: Relax. It wasn’t you. This time. The preacher was on a DVD, so he couldn’t hear me. Actually, the guy says he’s not a preacher. But if he’s not a preacher, he’s facing in the wrong …
Q LIFE APPLICATION. Paul’s request to Christians in Philippi is that they get along with each other: “Work through any disagreements you have and reach compromises so you’re all pulling in the same direction, united in love, spirit, and purpose” …
PAUL COMES UP WITH GREAT ONE-LINERS for the letter he wrote to Christians in Rome. Here are some I enjoyed over the past few weeks, as I paraphrased my way through the letter for the Casual English Bible. You can see God if you look. “They know the …
SO I’M SITTING IN MY OFFICE yesterday, listening to Microsoft Narrator read back to me what I wrote in my paraphrase of Romans. I stop and reset the speed of the reading, so it reads faster. I’m in a hurry to get this easy-reading version of an …
I KNOW IT’S ODD, but when I was reading yesterday about how Paul handled a food fight in Rome, I ended up thinking about how churches today handle the fight over abortion and homosexuality. Some Christians in the church in Rome thought it was wrong …
THIS IS A TWO-PART article. Part religion. Part politics. Part one: politics As I got ready for church on Sunday morning I watched the CNN interview between broadcast journalist Jake Tapper and Stephen Miller, who works for the president. It was a …
DID PAUL really write the Bible book of Romans? I’m finishing the Casual English Bible paraphrase of everything Paul wrote. I saved Romans for last, in the hopes that paraphrasing everything else first would prepare me for this tough, abstract …
I’M NOT SURE WHO TO BELIEVE. Should I believe some of my closest friends, who say the Holy Spirit guided the entire process of putting the Bible together just exactly the way God wants it? Or should I believe scholars who spend their career studying …
FOR THE FIRST TIME in this new generation I get to see in my own family what baby Jesus may have been like when the wise men came from the East, bringing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Jesus may have been two years old by the time the wise …
THIS IS MY CHRISTMAS GIFT TO YOU. If you want it. I think this will be of interest mainly to Bible study group leaders and other folks especially curious about the Gospel of Luke. I’m giving you the link to an 80-page leader’s guide and atlas of maps …
I’D RATHER PARAPHRASE the bizarre Bible book of Revelation instead of Paul’s letter to the Romans. Romans is Christianity’s first systematic theology book. I prefer stories over abstract theological ideas. Even weird stories like we …
I SPENT MY EVENINGS during the second half of last week recording and mixing a song for my wife. I can’t sing particularly well, even in the shower. But I did this little project for her anyhow. It wasn’t my idea. Someone somehow popped …
