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WE LAUNCH THE WEBSITE this week, Lord willing. It’s the Casual English Bible – a beta edition of the Bible books of Genesis and Luke, with Acts to come. I paraphrased Genesis while I wrote A Visual Walk Through Genesis, a book that releases on July …
NEW TERRITORY FOR ME. It’s one big step past writing a book. Coming out in a few weeks is A Visual Walk Through Genesis. That’s a book. Coming out sooner, I hope, is a website loaded with resources that I think will be helpful to people interested in …
“THE HARDEST PART OF BEING A CHRISTIAN.” That’s the title of the three-week series we’re talking about in my Sunday morning Bible study group. I taught the lesson last week: “We get a bad press.” I had to change the focus at the last moment because …
I’M NOT SURE WHICH IS HARDER TO TAKE. Valid criticism from a jerk. Unfair criticism from a non-Christian. I don’t like either. I want to blow raspberries at both. But I need to be kind and loving. Especially to the non-Christian. Too …
CHRISTIANS GET ACCUSED of cherry-picking the Bible. Have you ever picked cherries? You pick the ones that are ripe and juicy. You leave the ones that are rotten and wormy. Bible cherries Christians love to chew on “I am the way, the truth, and the …
THE ROOM WENT SILENT when I asked the question. I think some were stunned. Then angry. I was in a Bible study. The group was talking about how Christians step up to help people in need. We had plenty of examples in the group because we’re kind …
ALL I NEEDED was an oil change for my Toyota Sienna, which has over 200,000 miles on it (322,000 km). I suspected I might need more, once the auto shop got my better-than-an-SUV vehicle up on the rack. Charles from the repair shop called back and …
IF I HAD LIVED this year 3000 years ago, maybe I would have written a psalm to express the joylessness that I sense among many Christians during this bizarre and wrenching election cycle. The psalm might have gone something like this. With a …
IT’S THE KIND OF CANAANITE CITY Joshua would have loved to have destroyed: Nahariya by the sea, in northern Israel. Who knows, maybe he did take it out. The ruins of this fort-like city in what is now northern Israel date back to his time, some 3,400 …
IT WASN’T A NORMAL HUG. I had tears in my eyes at the time. My wife had just finished telling me why she got home from work late. She’s a nurse who works 12-hour night shifts at a hospital. On her way home from work Tuesday morning, she stopped off …
I’M STRUGGLING OVER how to put the Bible word “blessed” into today’s English, for folks who don’t read the Bible. I’ve been paraphrasing parts of the Bible lately. Genesis and the Gospel of Luke will go live as soon as the website coder puts the …
I HAVE AN ODD SCHEDULE these days, as I write my easy-reading Bible background books. It has to do with grandkids and dogs. Take Tuesday, for example. It was a three-dog night. But I was happy the dogs survived until night. We have one dog, Buddy, a …
