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THE BIBLE isn’t the only book that talks about how horrifying crucifixion was. Roman eyewitnesses wrote about what they saw “He was whipped until his bones showed.” —Josephus (AD 37-100), Wars of the Jews, 6.5.3 “Each criminal who goes to execution …

JESUS ARRIVES IN JERUSALEM on what will become known as Palm Sunday. The city is crowded with Jewish pilgrims. They’ve come to celebrate the Jewish festival of Passover. Many welcome Jesus as the Messiah, paving his path with palm branches and …

I WROTE THIS script on the first Palm Sunday after my Dad died following his 27-year battle with cancer. The story is true…not just based on the truth. Every fact is as I’ve reported it. I still can’t read this without crying. Cast: …

REMEMBER THE ODDBALL STORY of the widow Tamar pretending to be a prostitute so she could have sex with her father-in-law, Judah, one of Jacob’s 12 sons? I learned something new about that story this week. I learned why Tamar may have targeted him …

IF YOU’VE SEEN ANY of my illustrated books about the Bible, you’ll probably see some maps in there that you’ll not see in anyone else’s books. At least you shouldn’t see them there. I’ve had some of my photos stolen and published in competing books. …

THERE’S A BASKETBALL TEAM I was rooting for in the NCAA March Madness tournament of champions (past tense; they lost). So I’ve had games on the mind. Bible folks didn’t play basketball. The Canadian hadn’t invented it yet: Dr. James Naismith, a Phys. …

I’VE GOT WINDOWS ON MY MIND. That’s because builder’s grade windows are just a slight upgrade from wax paper in a cardboard frame. They don’t last. Builder’s grade for King Solomon featured the cedars of Lebanon floated down the Mediterranean Sea and …

SOME SOULS I KNOW have been done dirt. Three recent situations come to mind, two of which I can’t tell you about, so I won’t bother with the third. Here’s a Bible blues song for those souls and for all souls who feel mistreated. Please don’t take all …

ONE OF THE STRANGEST STORIES IN THE BIBLE is about Jacob wrestling someone he seems to think is God. Jacob is standing by a stream in the middle of the night and a “man” shows up. They start wrestling. What’s not normal about that? Jacob is the …

I KNEW I HAD A TOUGH WEEK AHEAD when I wrote the blog article: Psalm for one tough day. That’s why I wrote it. I was suiting up. I don’t know if it helped. We can strap on all the Bible verses we want, along with the belt of truth. body armor of …

SOME DAYS STINK. I have days like that. I thought, why not get ready for it. I’ll put a psalm in my pocket for a rotten stinker of a day. A stinker of a day that involves people in my face. Yeah, I’ll do that. How about an excerpt from the Double …

IF ANYONE DESERVED A STINKER of a father-in-law, it was Jacob. Jacob means “Heel,” and he certainly was. Not because he was born holding onto the heel of his twin brother Esau, which is how he got his name. But because of what he did to earn his …