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IN A VISION about how the world as we know it will end, John of Revelation sees a global gathering of “all the rulers and their armies to a place with the Hebrew name “Armageddon” (Revelation 16:16). John, however, never gets around to …
A FEW DECADES BEFORE JESUS started healing people, a young man in Egypt died of what started as a toothache and ended as a whopping sinus infection. That’s the best guess of University of Western Ontario experts studying CT scans of the fellow’s …
VEGETABLES killed Naboth. King Ahab wanted to plant a vegetable garden outside his getaway palace in Jezreel, but Naboth owned a vineyard there. It had been in his family for generations, so he rejected Ahab’s offer to buy it or trade it for a better …
TI WAS FRONT-PAGE NEWS in my town yesterday. We Protestants in America have lost our majority. That’s a first in U.S. history. We are now just another minority religious group. Admittedly, still a big one: 48% of U.S. adults call themselves …
ISAAC WAS AN UNBUTTERED BAGEL kind of a guy. Plain. That’s why we have the old saying: “An Abraham is usually followed by an Isaac.” Abraham was exciting. He ventured into unknown territory, chased down a raiding party to take back what they stole, …
I’M LUCKY ENOUGH to go to a church that does more than complain about how bad the world is. We do something to help turn it in a better direction. This past weekend, my Bible study class divided up into 3 teams and we took on repair and …
IF GOD IS SO GOOD, why’d he kill everybody—people and animals? Killing everybody is overkill. If someone at the dinner table offends you, it’s not kosher to kill them. And it certainly makes no sense to kill everyone else, too, along with Buddy the …
THERE WAS A TIME when the southern Jewish nation of Judah had a queen instead of a king. Not just any queen. She was the daughter of King Ahab and possibly Jezebel, the notorious couple who ruled the northern Jewish nation of Israel. Athaliah …
THE FACEBOOK POST that I read this week caught me off guard. It was from a friend. A recovering alcoholic, she quoted a few sentences from “Bill’s Story,” in the Alcoholics Anonymous book. The quote referred to one man’s struggle to accept any of the …
IT SURPRISES MANY PEOPLE, but the Bible doesn’t say that Noah’s ark came to rest on Mount Ararat. “The boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat” (Genesis 8:4). Like the Rockies, Ararat is a mountain range. It runs along the border of Turkey, …
I PROMISED in Friday’s blog to report on a few theories that Bible experts have to explain why folks in the first 10 generations of human beings lived nearly 1,000 years each. Spoiler alert: not one of the theories rings the bell. Not as far as …
I’M WORKING IN GENESIS at the moment and I’ve hit that speed bump about folks living 900 years or more. I’ll give you what I’ve got so far. See if you can finish it. There are certainly theories about how to handle the numbers, and I’ll report …
