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IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Dennis Knight of Elk City, Oklahoma, and he wins a free book for his trouble. Here’s his question: What is success from a biblical standpoint? It just so happens that I have a section on what the Bible …
A WOMAN gets the last word in the manly man’s Book of Proverbs – a book written by men, for men. In the closing chapter, a mysterious king named Lemuel – mentioned nowhere else in the Bible – passes along the wise sayings of his mother. Here’s what …
YOU COULD CUT THE TENSION with a chainsaw during our Bible study this past Sunday. It so troubled one member of the group that he had a hard time focusing on the sermon afterward. Have you ever been in a Bible study group when things suddenly got …
THE BIBLE STILL SURPRISES ME, after all these years of studying it and writing books about it. Just today, I wanted to find a few Psalms of thanks. I thought it would be a good idea to post a blog thanking God for all he has done for us. So I started …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from April Duty, a friend of mine. She wins a free book from the choices listed here: What does God have to say to us today concerning tattoos? As far as I can tell in reading the Old Testament law, God agrees …
ONCE IN A WHILE I go to websites that sell my books and I take a look at what people are saying in their reviews. It’s always a mixed bag. Good stuff. Bad stuff. Happily, the overwhelming majority of reviews are good ones. Of the many books I’ve …
THIS MINUTE a friend of mine is having an angiogram. A doc is threading a catheter up his femoral artery to scout out the heart for any blockage or damage. I visited my friend in the hospital a little while ago and prayed for him just a few minutes …
JOHN MARK is not the brother of Barnabas, despite what I wrote in Who’s Who & Where’s Where in the Bible 2.0. Look on page 264 and you’ll discover my humanity. The feature begins: BROTHER OF BARNABAS, John Mark didn’t finish what he started. If …
LIKE MANY OF YOU I feel a bit helpless these days. In our free society, we can’t always stop the bad guys from doing bad things that hurt us. Nor can we always get the supposedly good guys to do the good things that help us. Are you reading this, …
I HAD LUNCH with my son yesterday. We talked about the Boston Marathon bombing, of course. I asked if he had watched the news and looked at the online photos. He had. He cried. Like many of us. He said one brief scene in a video clip tipped him over. …
I COULDN’T BELIEVE IT. I was still dealing with pushback from yesterday morning’s blog post titled, “Where is God when bullets fly?” and then up pops the news flash: Bomber strikes Boston Marathon. A childhood friend of mine was hoping to run in that …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Erin Drew, who wins a free book for her trouble. The recent tragedy in Connecticut [a shooting that killed 20 children and 6 adults in Sandy Hook Elementary School] brought up this question from my fiancé, …
