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Q LIFE APPLICATION. “Don’t let your anger fester overnight. Deal with it the day it happens” (Ephesians 4:26). Was Paul kidding, using hyperbole, or has he never had in-laws? A Oh, Paul got plenty mad at times. And he stayed mad overnight. Read the …
Q Why do you think Paul, in the book of Galatians especially, was so bitterly opposed to fellow Jewish Christians who sincerely believed that Jesus wanted people to continue to honor and obey the Jewish laws that God gave them through Moses? After …
JESUS HELD A GRUDGE. I don’t know if that’s true. But I’m afraid that’s what it felt like. I was reading the story because I needed to paraphrase it for Mark, in the Casual English Bible. It’s a story in two snippets. Snippet one The family of Jesus …
PAUL WROTE AN ANGRY LETTER. It shows up at the tail end of 2 Corinthians, as chapters 10-13. Most Bible experts seem to think those chapters were not part of the letter preserved in the earlier nine chapters. The break between the comparatively …
I SEE GLIMPSES OF ATTITUDE AND ANGER as I read the Bible letters of Paul and try to paraphrase them for the Casual English Bible. Does he sometimes cross the line and go so far into tickedness that he commits a sin? I’m pretty sure some Christians …
PAUL GONE WILD. That was the topic of Tuesday’s blog article: Hot-headed Paul’s angriest letter, about some strong words Paul had for Christians in Turkey—and for the Apostle Peter. Now for more, but not of the same. It’s the same letter, but a …
PAUL SOUNDS A LITTLE INSANE in the letter he wrote to churches in Turkey. That letter, preserved in the Bible, is Galatians. (I just posted a new paraphrase of Galatians at the online Casual English Bible.) I don’t mean Paul seems clinically insane, …
Paul, over-the-top angry At the end of Paul’s intensely angry letter to churches in what is now Turkey, he wrote: “So lay off me. I don’t want any more trouble. I already carry enough scars on my body for the sake of Jesus.” …
STOP READING THIS if you haven’t read Acting Christian when someone deletes your pictures. It won’t make much sense until you read the first article. I posted that original article last Thursday. It’s about what happened when a lady looking at the …
I HAD OVER 400 PHOTOS and videos on the memory card of my Grandpa Camera, a nice little tool I bought when my two grandkids showed up a little over a year ago. The images got accidentally deleted by someone looking at them on my camera last week. …
PARDON MY HUMOR and my accordion as I explain how a pacifist rabbi like Jesus got so violently angry that he stormed into someone’s place of business, flipped their tables, and chased after them with a whip. The Prince of Peace was …
SOMETIMES I’D LIKE TO SMACK A LIAR, to shut them the dickens up. They’re usually on TV, though, so it would be counterproductive. I’ve chased the truth for all of my career. First as a newspaper journalist. Then as a writer of Christian …
