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IT COMES AS A SURPRISE to most folks, but one of the techniques Jesus used to heal the blind is very much like some remedies that show up in a first-century Roman collection of 37 science books called Natural History, written by a Roman named Pliny. …
IT’S A BONUS QUESTION OF THE WEEK. A Valentine’s Day Special Edition. I got this question a few days ago from an emotionally exhausted divorcee who has remarried a divorced man. Both divorced. Both remarried. They’re struggling over what Jesus …
ROMAN DOCTORS in Jesus’ day served up bizarre treatment for common afflictions. No wonder Jesus the healer became popular so quickly. Here’s some of the treatment pulled from a first-century book by a Roman science writer, Pliny (AD …
ONE OF JESUS’ MOST INTRIGUING medical cases was this: “A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding. She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, …
SPECIAL NOTICE: VALENTINE’S DAY GIFT Barbour Publishing has agreed to give you a free Kindle download of my new release: Understanding Jesus, A Guide to His Life and Times. It will be available for one day only, Thursday, April 14. Go to this …
TIME WAS RIPE for God to once again step into Jewish history. Many observant Jews, if not most, believed it. They believed it because of what they read in their Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament. Prophets several centuries before Jesus …
WHAT SIGN will signal your return and the end of the world?” (Matthew 24:3, NLT) Seems like a simple enough question the disciples asked Jesus. But given his convoluted answer, you’d think a five-year-old had just asked Daddy where babies come from. …
OF ALL THE MIRACLES Jesus could have performed to launch his ministry—healing the sick or raising the dead—his first miracle on record was to liven up a party with enough wine to get more than 1,000 people legally drunk. At least by today’s measure …
I LET A DOG DIE. This picture of a dog came up on my Facebook news feed, posted by a Friend. Black Labrador Retriever. Two years old. The picture of the little fellow inside the back of the dogcatcher’s truck looked like a sad brother to my Black …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. And it comes from Matthieu Sabiti, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He wins a free book for his trouble. Here’s his question—incredibly pertinent for him, given the pillaging and warfare that he and his fellow …
IT MAY SOUND IRREVERENT but I think of Sunday worship in church as Show and Tell. The worship service is the Show. The Bible study or Sunday School—if your seeker-sensitive church staff will let you call it Sunday School—is the Tell. That’s where we …
“HEY GOD. Where are you?” “Did I get it right? Do you really exist?” Sometimes I ask that out loud, looking up at the sky from my office window. That’s because sometimes it doesn’t feel like he exists. It feels like I got it wrong. For heaven’s sake, …
