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DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE have shown up recently in a couple of my more gut-wrenching blogs, including Dumping husband #2: remarriage is adultery? I thought you might appreciate how Joseph was prepared to handle his divorce with Mary, once he found out …
THAT’S WHAT A READER of mine says she is planning to do. Close up shop on her second marriage. She’s divorced. She has been married to her second husband for four years. And she says she now thinks Jesus has given her one of two options: Reconcile …
I’LL MAKE THIS QUICK. No Bible blog today. Here’s why. I got a 1-minute phone call from my daughter, Rebecca, at 6:40 p.m. on Tuesday. “I had a wreck. I tried to call Jon [fiancé] but he’s not answering. I think I totaled the car. Can you come and …
DELETED SCENES show up in the movies. How about one from a book? Here’s a sidebar the editor decided to delete from Understanding Jesus: A Guide to His Life and Times. I think it’s interesting. And it illustrates how some skeptical Bible experts have …
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 …
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 …
I’M LUCKY. I have a pastor who preaches like he’s talking to me over a cup of coffee—which is how I try to write, by the way. Nothing stodgy. This past Sunday he told a Cherokee story I had never heard—at least not that I recall. It was a story just …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. And Robin Walker gets a free book for asking it. Here’s her question: I was doing a fast for three weeks last month. In one of my books on fasting it had a scripture, Matthew 17: 20-21. Interestingly enough some of my …
JUST FOR FUN I decided to pick a random Bible verse to reflect upon for this blog post. I went to my iPhone and loaded my study Bible app. Then, eyes closed, I made three pokes at the screen. One to get to the Bible book: it took me to Ezekiel. One …
IT’S TOUGH TO ARGUE from the Bible that Christians shouldn’t drink alcohol, many insist. After all, Jesus’ first miracle on record was to whip up enough wine to get a thousand people too drunk to drive a donkey cart—at least by today’s measure of …
“HOLY CRAP!” That’s what my daughter said were the first words out of my mouth when I woke up from a short nap in the car on Monday afternoon. Rebecca and I were about halfway home to the Kansas City area, after visiting family 800 …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Artha Waycaster. She wins a free book for her trouble. How do you feel about the subject once saved always saved? I tend to think you can lose your way after becoming a Christian. My sister thinks …
