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I DON’T LIKE some people in the Bible. Granted, I don’t know any of them. All I know about them is what I read in the Bible. Maybe if I met them face-to-face, and had coffee and a peanut butter cookie with them, and heard the rest of their story it …

IT SHOULDN’T HAVE SURPRISED ME, but it did. Of all the blog articles I’ve written, the one most often repinned on the social media site Pinterest is The theology of Deputy Barney Fife. I wrote that thing on a whim after a random thought left me …

IF YOU PUT A BIBLE in the hands of one Christian and another Bible in the hands of a non-Christian, then you ask them each to read the same story, who do you believe would do the most thinking about what they’ve read? Here’s what I’m wondering. Would …

I’M NOT STEALING FROM JESUS, I’m helping him get his message out. At least I’m trying to help. If you read this blog much at all, you know I have a Bible-study technique I’m trying out. I’m putting the Bible into my own words. It’s not easy to do …

WE GET HIGH-TECH when infertility strikes home. We can capture the little 50-micrometer swimmers, so small it would take 500 of them to stretch out an inch. And we can put them where they would do the most good. It’s acceptable today. We can plant …

FIRST OF ALL, I’M SORRY. Everyone who subscribes to my free blog articles missed Monday’s article. I wrote it. Honest I did. I just didn’t schedule it for pickup on time. Here’s the link to the article, which I think you might enjoy if you like …

I QUOTE LOTS OF BIBLE TRANSLATIONS in my books. Skeptics among my friends have asked why. Some wonder if I look around until I find a Bible translation that says what I wanted it to say. That is not the way it works. My baseline education is as a …

MY EDITOR SENT ME A NOTE yesterday. Just two words. “Good heavens.” He didn’t use an exclamation point. Enlightened writers and editors rarely do. Exclamation points are reserved for yelling. This was not a yeller’s “Good heavens.” It was more of an …

I SPENT THE WEEKEND reformatting my computer. I had a massive “User” file on my small C-drive and it was giving me a red bar every time I opened up Internet Explorer to take a look at how my computer was doing. My son told me I needed to move the …

HALF-TRUTH. That’s the topic of a sermon series my creative pastor is preaching. Yesterday’s half-truth was this: God helps those who help themselves. For those casually surveyed Americans who told late-night TV host Jay Leno that this was one of the …

MY BAD. I forgot to write Friday’s blog. It’s Thursday’s fault. Some days a writer doesn’t get to write. I had a double whammy: curveballs from an editor, computer drive failure. Editorial surprises I was going to write my quota on the current book …

DID YOU EVER READ someone else’s mail? When you did – not if – did you take it personal? If the writer called the reader something nasty, let’s say: “Babylon, Mother of Whores,” (Revelation 17:5), would you figure he’s talking about you – even though …