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IF PRAYER WORKS like my seminary prof said he thought it might, I’ll be asking for your prayer support today. My prof, years ago, said he pictured prayer like a pipeline to heaven. He said in his mind’s eye he sees God pouring out his grace on all of …

JESUS HATED FAMILIES. That’s the impression he leaves with many folks today when they read his mission statement: “I came to turn sons against their fathers, daughters against their mothers, and daughters-in-law against their mothers-in-law. Your …

I’M NEGOTIATING A CONTRACT for a new book. And by “I’m” I mean my agent. I don’t know if you’ve heard that most writers don’t make much money. But if you haven’t, they don’t. I have sold well over 1 million books. Most of my books …

WHEN I SAY I have free review books for “virgin” readers – and I do – I don’t mean virgin in the biblical sense. I mean virgin in a marketing sense. Your mailbox remains untouched by any free books of mine. Here’s what’s going on. I’ve sent out a lot …

ONE OF THE STRANGEST laws in the Bible, as far as I’m concerned, is this one about what should happen to a man who rapes a Jewish virgin. “The man who raped her has to give her father fifty pieces of silver. He has to marry her because he took …

I’M MAKING THIS SHORT because I’ve been working all day on a new Bible video that I should be able to release soon. And I forgot about this blog article. So there. Then I got the book cover you’re seeing above. This is for the book …

IT SEEMED AN ODD GETAWAY for church guys. Fly-fishing. What’s that got to do with church? Fly-fishing is just a normal guy thing to do. Not a church guy thing to do. But we have an enthusiastic fly-fisherman in our church. He went to the pastor and …

IF YOU’RE NORMAL, you are going to hate this Bible Question of the Week. Not that you are absolutely abnormal if you like the question. Or that my friend who is asking the question – Wayne Sacchi – is 10 degrees shy of a snowflake. It’s just that …

I GET FREE BOOKS from my publishers. It’s in my contract. I keep a few for posterity. I give a few to family, friends, and folks in my church Bible study. But the rest – the vast majority of the books – I give away to people I’ve never met. I started …

I GET STORIES FROM READERS happy or sad. Lisa is both, but mostly sad. She wrote to thank me for writing The Complete Guide to the Bible. She said she bought two copies. One for herself. One for her son Ryan, locked up in a correctional facility in …

SOME SONGS THE JEWS SANG wouldn’t go over especially well in a worship service today. Let’s consider one, for the Bible Question of the Week. Jews sang a song – and it’s in the Bible – asking God to bless anyone who would smash their enemies’ babies …

I’VE NEVER REALLY MET GOD. Not to shake his hand, look him in the eye, or even catch a glimpse of his glory gliding by while I hide in the “cleft of the rock” (Exodus 33:22). Still, it seems to me he somehow manages to get ideas into my head. I’ve …