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I’M REWRITING THE BIBLE. I hope you don’t mind. It’s a little spiritual exercise I’ve been doing lately when I’ve had the time. I take a passage of the Bible and I paraphrase it in words that are easier for me to relate to. I read the passage from a …
STORIES OF NAKED PEOPLE in the Bible are probably not something you want to read to a crowd of people gathered for a wedding. I wrote about that in yesterday’s blog, Skip this Bible verse for the wedding. Seems fair that I should flip the mattress, …
IT’S CRUNCH TIME. My only daughter’s wedding takes place in a month. I get to do lots of stuff at the wedding, like walk her down the aisle entrust her to the care of my future son-in-law welcome guests to the wedding reception dance with my daughter …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Renee K., a lady worried about her sister. Renee wins a free book for asking this question. But I think a book would be a sorry excuse for what she really wants. Here’s her question. Why do atheist people …
I CAN GET AS ANGRY as anyone. Even at Christians. Especially at Christians. I expect more of those suckers than I expect of the Other Guys. And too doggone often, I’m disappointed. Often enough that if a company rep IDs himself or herself as a …
I WASN’T MR. SENSITIVE in my younger days. Actually, still today, I can be direct. And by “direct” I mean filterless. Like a Camel cigarette. Take the little Post-It size limericks and sayings I pasted to the front of my desk back when I worked my …
I APOLOGIZE for comparing first-time visitors in church to dogs. But the comparison did come to mind a few days ago. My daughter, Becca, has a new pup: a border collie named Tucker. Becca is going to be tied up over the Labor Day weekend, and she …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Debbie Curto, who gets a free book for her trouble. I’ve condensed her question quite a bit because Debbie gave me lots of info, to help me understand what she was talking about. Here’s her question: …
TO BLOG OR NOT TO BLOG. That’s not the question. How often to blog, that’s the question. I may not make any changes whatsoever, keeping my current approach of one blog post every workday, Monday through Friday. But it takes a fair amount of time to …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Janet TeBockhorst Page, who wins a free, signed copy of one of my books. Here’s her question: What happened to Esther after she saved her people? Here’s my answer: I don’t know. Esther goes off the grid. …
BIBLE GUY is what one the top execs in Christian publishing called me at the annual book conference last week. Surprised the dickens out of me. He rattled off the names of earlier Bible Guys. Gents I knew by their top-selling Bible reference books. …
IT’S A TAD EMBARRASSING now that I think about it. Who hugs a Mennonite stranger at a book convention? Me. I couldn’t help myself. Actually, the problem might have been that I didn’t stop long enough to think about what I was doing. My wife and I …
