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IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Kathy. I’ll not use her last name. You’ll see why when you read her question. She wins a free book for her trouble. How do I reconcile my liberal political beliefs with being a Christian? I do not believe …
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 …
“HEY GOD. Where are you?” “Did I get it right? Do you really exist?” Sometimes I ask that out loud, looking up at the sky from my office window. That’s because sometimes it doesn’t feel like he exists. It feels like I got it wrong. For heaven’s sake, …
IT HAS BEEN RAINING all morning. It hasn’t rained this way since I can’t remember when. The ground has been thirsty. And I’ve grown weary of being stuck between blue skies and hard-packed dirt. It’s the dead of winter, but I’ve been writing all …
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. It comes from Erin Drew. She wins a free book for asking the question. I have a girlfriend who lived with abuse by a stepfather and a mother who denied it….We had always heard so many sermons/read so many things about …
CHRISTIAN POLITICIANS. Let’s assume they: exist—in the various political parties want to make the country a better place aren’t afraid to do the right thing even if it could cost them re-election. Let’s brainstorm a vision for them. When my pastor, …
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 …
I NEED TO TAKE A SHORT BREAK from this blog. But I’ll be back next week. Meanwhile, please keep those questions coming about the Bible, God, and the Christian faith. I’ll post the next Question of the Week on Monday. Our first winner was …
