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ONE OF THE CHURCHES I attended as a child got sold and turned into a bar. Then later, worse, a used-car dealership. Locals who would get a drink at the bar would later choke at the used-car lot. Archaeologists in Israel have discovered that the same …
I SPENT THE LAST THREE WEEKENDS sanding, mostly. My son wanted to build a table for his backyard patio. It’s a big patio, so it needed a big table. We are not particularly gifted in the area of woodworking. But we are willing to learn the hard …
PARDON ME for feeding you so many maps lately. But that’s what I’m working on at the moment: maps for all 50 chapters of Genesis, in the Casual English Bible. I spent yesterday creating this view of the Jordan River Valley because I was …
I’M NOT SURE MOST FOLKS KNOW that Abraham, father of the Jewish race of people, was an Iraqi. At least according to today’s map. He grew up in Ur, a city in what is now southern Iraq. Afterward, he moved with his dad, Terah, to Haran, a …
WATCHING GRANDKIDS and making maps for Genesis in the Casual English Bible, I again ran out of day before writing the blog article. What to do? Show a picture of another map? Show a picture of smiling grandkids? As if the map ever had a chance. …
IT WAS BAD ENOUGH that we’ve had to endure three monster hurricanes in the past few weeks. All of them Category Four. And at some points at landfall, reaching the top of the power scale, Category Five. Harvey in Texas Irma in Florida Maria in …
STILL WORKING MY WAY through maps for the Casual English Bible atlas of Genesis, I spent much of yesterday trying to illustrate the Flood story as it’s reported in Genesis 7. It’s unbelievable, as far as some Christians are concerned. …
FROM MORNING TILL EVENING, skipping lunch and dinner, I spent my time creating a Genesis map from thin air. The sun is setting now. The stomach is growling. Buddy the Dog wants some attention. So instead of writing a blog article for you, I thought …
IT’S DONE. I’ve posted the beta edition of 1, 2 Corinthians live on the Casual English Bible website. It comes with free maps, notes, and discussion questions. A 72-page leader’s guide and atlas is available as a PDF download for …
CHRISTIANS DON’T APPROVE of the way the apostle Paul took an offering. Some Christians, anyhow. If he pastored their church, they might not get mad enough to leave. But they’d write a blog article about it, if they could. I’ve certainly written …
CHRISTIANS ARE PESSIMISTS, and content to be so. Not all. Maybe not most. But many. They look at the world and say all is as it should be, given the fallen nature of human beings. Like the rest of us, these Christians see: narcissistic political …
I RAN OUT OF DAY. I was working on maps for 1, 2 Corinthians late into the evening last night…too late to write a blog article for today. Instead, I thought I’d give you a sneak look at what’s coming. This is a draft of one of the …
