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HOW CAN WE HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS? We’ve never met him. I’m talking eyeball to eyeball. Fist bump to fist bump. We haven’t met Jesus that way. I grew up with Christians asking people the spiritual barometer question, “Do you have a …

LIKE THE ANNOUNCER for a starring act, John wasn’t on stage long. His ministry may have lasted just a year or so. But it was long enough to draw a crowd—and then to point the people to Jesus. Luke implies that John got his first message from God “In …

I WILL PROBABLY ALWAYS VOTE AGAINST putting a stained glass window in a church. I love stained glass windows. I’ve spent hours enjoying them in churches throughout the Middle East and Europe. We have gorgeous ones here in the States, too. My own …

BEST KNOWN FOR GETTING SWALLOWED by a huge fish, Jonah bears yet another incredible distinction among God’s prophets. He gave only one prophecy in the book named after him. And it didn’t come true. Prophet on the run If Jonah had gotten his way, …

IF YOU GET THE BOOK I’m giving away today, you will be in elite company with just five people on earth: my mother my two kids my co-leader in Bible study and a reader who would probably be the president of my fan club if I had a fan club My wife …

WEDNESDAY IS HUMP DAY, halfway through the week. Come lunch, it’s a downhill ride to Friday, as the clock marks laps. Just for fun, I thought you might enjoy reading what the Bible says about having fun. Most of us who read the Bible know that it …

A READER SURPRISED ME with a Bible question a few days ago. Here’s the question. It comes from a gent I’ll identify only as Larry, since I don’t have his permission to use his name: I’d love to hear any of your comments on I Samuel 16….Samuel …

A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN, Psalm 13 seems to perfectly express what we’ve come to think about Friday the 13th. At least the first few verses do. The last verse, however, reflects what I think about Friday the 13th. That’s the day I met my wife, at a …

VALENTINE’S DAY is coming. Saturday. I’ve already sent a box of chocolates to Mom, signing it for Dad, who died in 2001. He always gave her a heart-shaped box of chocolates. My brothers and I kept up that tradition for Dad by sending Mom chocolates …

HUMANS ARE STINKING UP THE PLANET. Headlines are not good. The Middle East has gone Medieval on us. Ice is melting at both poles. The Royals lost the World Series and the Seahawks lost the Super Bowl. We can’t do a thing about the Royals and the …

I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER. You can’t write just one article about what Christians should do with evil in the world. No matter what you say, you are going to get follow-up questions. Here’s the follow-up question to Wednesday’s article, Burned …

VAPORIZING A TERRORIST in a drone attack. Is that Christian? Clearly, that’s what many Christians would love to do to those IS militants who burned alive a captured Jordanian pilot yesterday. I got an email with a tough question about that. Militants …