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I WAS WORRIED about a new video I released this week, Two reasons I believe in God. I was worried for several reasons. I felt that some of the content was uncomfortably personal. And there’s the humor, which is not always well received…or artfully …
YOU ARE THE FIRST to see this pre-release of my newest video, Two reasons I believe in God. (That’s aside from my video mentor, Steve Grisetti of Muvipix.com.) I haven’t even shown it to my wife yet. I’m nervous about the video. …
SO I’M SITTING IN MY OFFICE yesterday, listening to Microsoft Narrator read back to me what I wrote in my paraphrase of Romans. I stop and reset the speed of the reading, so it reads faster. I’m in a hurry to get this easy-reading version of an …
“AMERICA FIRST” isn’t just a slogan for our current political administration. It has been around for at least a century. President Woodrow Wilson pitched it during the 1916 election. It was even the name of an isolationist political party at the end …
Jesus: “People, love your enemies, do good, and loan what you have, expecting nothing back. When you can start living like that…you will be considered one of the children of the Most High God.” Luke 6:35 Casual English Bible Preview of atlas maps for …
JESUS: “When someone says bad things about you, say good things about them.” Luke 6:28 Casual English Bible Sometimes, however, it’s better not to say anything. For example, trying to say something good about: Preacher, after a boring sermon: …
WE DON’T OFTEN GET A CHANCE to edit the writer, and see the effects of the editing actually show up in print. Here’s your chance. I’m paraphrasing 2 Corinthians for the Casual English Bible. Whenever I finish paraphrasing a chapter, I create a …
WITH ALL THE “US” AND “THEM” going on around the world these days, there are clues in the Bible about how to handle that problem. The problem of “Us” and “Them” has been around for a long time. Peter …
IN THIS DANGEROUS WORLD when even many Christians are too afraid to help outsiders such as war refugees, perhaps we can pause long enough to remember what the apostle Peter did. He welcomed a non-Jewish soldier into what had been a Jews-only …
CHRISTIANS ARE ON THE RUN in some parts of the world now. People of other religions want them dead. Nothing new about that. That fact is written into the story of how the church got started. Once a week I’m letting you take a peek inside the new …
IT’S A COMMON QUESTION BUT ODD. This Bible question, which comes from Tom Temple (email me Tom for a free book), is common because a lot of people ask it. But it’s odd because in the question, Tom gives some of the answers scholars suggest. Here’s …
IT’S NOT CHRISTIAN to say this. It’s more Hindu, actually. But I’ll say it anyhow. Karma. I’m getting what I deserve. I don’t think it’s because of something wrong that I did in a previous life, as some Hindus and Buddhists might suggest. I’m …
