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I’M WONDERING WHY the Bible doesn’t have more upbeat stuff to say about the joys of kids and grandkids. For me, my life’s highest highs spin around my family—especially my kids…and now I’m adding my grandkids. As far as earthbound joys and …
PARDON ME for taking Monday off to enjoy Labor Day with my family. The families of my daughter and son came over to help my wife and I enjoy some trout that my son and I caught on a church fly-fishing retreat about a week ago. My son-in-laws parents …
PAUL WROTE AN ANGRY LETTER. It shows up at the tail end of 2 Corinthians, as chapters 10-13. Most Bible experts seem to think those chapters were not part of the letter preserved in the earlier nine chapters. The break between the comparatively …
JESUS WASN’T THE FIRST to walk on water in a windstorm. I’ve been thinking about that, while watching video coverage of Hurricane Harvey pummel and flood Houston and other cities throughout Southeast Texas. I was surprised on Sunday when …
I COMPLAIN TO GOD SOMETIMES. One of the big questions we humans have about God is whether or not he’s anything more than someone’s imagination from thousands of years ago. As in a piece of fiction that got told over and over so many times that …
A STORM is rolling through my hometown, as I type these keystrokes. Bummer. I need to set up my cameras, to capture the eclipse that starts in a couple of hours. Lightning just flashed in the east. That means the storm is leaving, I hope. But you can …
HERE’S THE HEADLINE of a surprising article in my local Kansas City Star: “Was Jesus crucified during a solar eclipse? NASA shows one occurred in 33 A.D.” I live near the zone of totality for the eclipse that’s coming on Monday. Clouds permitting, …
SOMETIMES WE’RE PROUD of our country: of our leaders, our citizens, and the choices we make. But sometimes we’re so ashamed that we delay taking trips abroad. And when we write to our friends in other countries, we apologize for what’s going on here, …
A YOUNG LADY I KNEW DIED THIS WEEK. She was 49 years old, far too young to die, I think. She edited children’s material for a Protestant denomination. We used to work on the same floor many years ago. I lost touch with her. When I heard on Monday …
WE DON’T OFTEN GET A CHANCE to edit the writer, and see the effects of the editing actually show up in print. Here’s your chance. I’m paraphrasing 2 Corinthians for the Casual English Bible. Whenever I finish paraphrasing a chapter, I create a …
THIS IS MY BIRTHDAY. Happy birthday to me. If I were to celebrate my birthday the way people did in Bible times, my party schedule might look something like this. All-you-can-eat banquet for my entire staff. I’m okay with that. I work for myself out …
THE PROBLEM IS MY SOFT VOICE. I sound like John Boy Walton or Mr. Rogers or Whispering Bill Anderson. If you’ve never heard of any of those people, it’s probably because of their voice. When I create Bible-background videos for my YouTube channel, I …
