Award-Winning, Bestselling Christian Author
A BOOK OF MINE WENT OUT OF PRINT. Fortunately, that hasn’t happened to me very often in my writing career. The book that recently got itself retired is Who’s Who & Where’s Where in the Bible for Kids. The rights have reverted back to me, and I’m …
ATHEISTS have been visiting my YouTube channel lately. They want everyone to know that there’s no evidence that Jesus or King David ever existed. Most of them are responding to a video I released: What Romans said about crucifixion. Their …
PAUL MAKES NO SENSE to me sometimes. He really did seem to need some follow up questions from news journalists. Those could have helped us a lot. Let me ask for your ideas about something. I know that folks don’t usually respond to blog articles. So …
APOSTLE PAUL COULD GET DOWN-TO-EARTH when he wanted to. He could get abstract, puzzling, and weird as well. But when he finished a letter he wrote to Christians in what is now northern Greece, he gave them advice that seems to me would work well in …
PUNCHING AN ATHEIST IN THE NOSE sometimes feels like the good and godly thing to do. It’s not, of course. But I sometimes feel it is. And I say that in partial sincerity, as a writer who has devoted his career to targeting people outside the faith. …
BUDDY THE DOG AND I were out in the front yard when the UPS guy arrived yesterday evening. The gent came with a Gold Book Award I got because The Complete Guide to the Bible sold half a million copies. Buddy was not impressed. The guy with the box …
FOUR CHRISTIAN BOOKS made the list this year. Only four broke through the numbers and, for the first time, hit the sales mark of half a million sold. The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association identified the 2017 Gold Award winners as: What …
I PUT MY TORO MOWER at curbside. I taped on it a sign: FREE. Runs, burns oil. It’s perhaps 25 years old. Maybe older. Almost a friend. I’ve talked to it many times, thanking it for running so well and for staying with me so long. Hokey, I know. It …
PAUL GONE WILD. That was the topic of Tuesday’s blog article: Hot-headed Paul’s angriest letter, about some strong words Paul had for Christians in Turkey—and for the Apostle Peter. Now for more, but not of the same. It’s the same letter, but a …
PAUL SOUNDS A LITTLE INSANE in the letter he wrote to churches in Turkey. That letter, preserved in the Bible, is Galatians. (I just posted a new paraphrase of Galatians at the online Casual English Bible.) I don’t mean Paul seems clinically insane, …
I WANT A BIBLE VERSE to ease my mind. One friend of mine got a divorce. Another lost a job. Another had such a tough day on the job that she lost it, and started sobbing. And then, of course, there’s the oh-my-goodness insanity of politics that …
I’M REWRITING THE BIBLE into my own words. It’s a Bible study project I’ve been working on. It’s not a formal Bible translation any more than the Message is. It’s a paraphrase into the kind of casual English I use when talking or writing. I’m posting …
