Award-Winning, Bestselling Christian Author
I’M SURPRISED no one has asked me for the story behind the odd dedication I wrote in my newest book, A Visual Walk Through Genesis. Maybe nobody reads book dedications. But I want you to read this one. It’s important. I’ve written scores of books in …
I HAD JUST FIST-BUMPED the young lady behind the counter at the fly-fishing shop in the Ozarks. I did it a few weeks ago, when we checked in for an overnight stay in a room near the trout stream—me, my son, and a friend visiting from Germany: Hannes. …
“I HAVE JUST THROWN OUT YOUR BOOK.” That’s how the critic’s email started. I got it about a week ago, just before going on a short vacation. It’s a wonderfully engaging lead. The gent, I’ll call CM for his actual initials, got my attention …
MY CHURCH DOESN’T STINK. But I’m wondering if it should. It doesn’t have a smell at all, far as I can sniff. Concrete and steel don’t give off any scent within my range. Maybe Buddy the Dog would say otherwise, with a bark. …
I DON’T BELIEVE everything I’ve been taught about the Bible, God, or what it means to be a Christian. I’ve been taught wrong. I didn’t start correcting my thinking until seminary, which is when I had to study the Bible for myself. That’s when I …
MY FIRST GRANDCHILD is on the church calendar. He’s going to get baptized this month. He won’t be quite seven months old when the water splashes on his head—and when we all hope he doesn’t show the congregation how to hit the high notes. He might not …
“GOD WAS SORRY that he made the human race in the first place” (Genesis 6:6 MSG). Really? Humans are such a disappointment that God says it was a mistake to create them? If Moses wrote this book as part 1 of the first five books in the Bible, as …
ADAM AND EVE did more than just sin when they bit into that forbidden fruit. They poisoned themselves and all generations to come. That’s a theory Bible experts call original sin. Scholars may have done a fine job putting a name on this idea. But …
SCIENTISTS WHO STUDY HUMAN GENETICS say all humans today likely descended from one woman they call Mitochondrial Eve. “Mitochondrial” refers to a type of DNA that’s passed on from mother to child with genes that rarely change. Geneticists estimate …
IT’S SURPRISING TO ME how much doggone good editorial help I’m getting from some of my readers. They’re editing me. They’re editing my Bible paraphrase, the Casual English Bible. And they’re making me look good and the Bible read better. I asked for …
WHEN TRAGEDY STRIKES, I often turn to the book of Job because he tends to ask God the tough questions we’re thinking. He doesn’t always do it with courtesy and a gentle touch. Why should he? He has just lost all of his children in a windstorm, all of …
CASUAL ENGLISH BIBLE website is up and running today. First thing: this is a beta edition. It is barely proofread, and not at all edited for consistency in style, spelling, or clever phrases that don’t work. So there will be revisions along the way. …
