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HEADS EXPLODE over this question. I’ve seen it happen. We’ve talked about this question in my Bible study class. People in the group explored reasons why some Christians don’t believe there was a literal Adam and Eve, or a flood that covered the …
< IT’S BAD ENOUGH that folks remember Herodias as Galilee’s First Lady of Don’t Mess with Me—for getting the head of John the Baptist served up on a platter merely because he called her a sinner. But she had stink left in her after killing John. In …
TO KNOW WHAT FRUSTRATES ME as a Christian author, picture the angel Gabriel with an iPhone. He’s flying around inside a church that hasn’t been built yet, videotaping the fly-through with his phone. Afterward, he posts the video in hi-def on Vimeo. …
WE’VE DONE TERRIBLE THINGS, many of us. Probably most of us. Maybe all of us. No wonder I recently got dished up this question: If I could ask God one thing, I would ask “Does He really forgive me?” I picked this as the Bible question of the week …
IF YOU’RE READING THIS you’re a guinea pig. I’m test-driving a new idea for a Friday feature. As I work through my research during the week, I’m going to look for a little-known fact from the Bible or Bible history. And I’m gonna let you in on …
INSTEAD OF MY WORDS, for a change how about some sacred words. It’s Wednesday. Get-over-the-hump Day. See Friday ahead. Some of my friends are going through tough times. It’s a hard week to face. They need strong words of encouragment. …
PEOPLE GET TICKED when we tag them with the wrong description. “I am not a secretary. I am an administrative assistant to the president.” They get ticked even when we’re right—when they are a secretary, by any sane definition. Yet they can also be an …
DON’T BEAT ME UP for doing this…for messing with the Bible. I do it as a fun devotional, in my spare time. I try to take the Bible’s meaning and wrap it in words that folks outside the Christian faith could easily follow. Those are …
IT’S THE BIBLE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from a group of teenage girls in a church confirmation class. And it’s reported by Christina Smith Wise who gets a free book for passing the question along to me. (Note to readers: The deal’s still open. …
I DID NOT watch a football game on Sunday evening. I watched a highlight reel, interspersed with a blooper reel. Highlight reel: Seattle Seahawks—the team my son seems irrationally attached to, given that he lives in the middle of the country. Why on …
IT’S THE BIBLE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Igal German, who wins a free copy of one of my books for the effort. Igal, email me. Here’s how Igal put it: Why do people struggle to attend their church regularly? Oddly enough, Netflix comes …
HOW DO YOU HELP SOMEONE who needs it, but doesn’t want it? I’ve had that going on lately with a couple of people – one relative and one stranger. How about I talk about the stranger, so as not to get in quite as much hot water. I don’t mean to be …
