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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 …
WHEN YOUR CARBON CRUMBLES and your casket lies locked in the dirt, what will be left of you here? I’ve been wondering about that lately. Not that I have plans to crumble anytime soon. But I do have family and friends who are living life fragile these …
IT’S THE BIBLE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Collette Lilly, who wins a free book of mine for bothering to ask it. Here’s her question, which is actually a statement. You have to imagine the question mark. A pastor once told our Bible study …
LET’S CALL THIS A GUEST BLOG. Okay? I normally present both sides of hot potato Bible arguments. Not today. Today I’m gonna role play. I’m gonna write as though I’m a ticked off Christian who believes that a body does not need man parts to …
IT’S THE BIBLE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Tom Hartman, an Oakie who wins a free, signed copy of a book of mine. He chose Bible Snapshots. I asked my Facebook readers to tell me what one question they would ask God if they got the chance. …
I WORK TOO MUCH. I need a break. Right now. The problem with being self-employed isn’t that the work is never done. It’s that you know it will never get done unless you do it. No one else is going to do it for you. And if it doesn’t get done, it’s …
I TRANSLATE BIBLE EXPERTS into English. That’s how I make my living. These scholar guys and gals are extraordinary thinkers. But they have one flaw, which I find useful. They can’t write. If God told them they had to write a simple sentence to save …
IT’S THE BIBLE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from a hardcore Republican friend of mine, Tom Troyer. We’ve tussled plenty over social and political matters. Why not religious, too? Tom gets a free book for asking the question. Here’s his …
A BIBLE VERSE SURPRISED ME. AGAIN. And it made me feel as though I stuck my digital foot in my virtual mouth. Again. In Monday’s blog post I kinda ripped into people who say they are “called by God” to do stuff. Mostly folks who say they are called …
IT’S THE BIBLE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from an old friend of mine, Hondo Ayers, who used to teach a Sunday school class I attended. I know him well enough to call him Michael, which is his real name. Michael, you win a free book for asking the …
I HAD A SEMINARY PROF who kept his mouth shut during parts of some hymns. He didn’t agree with the theology of the songwriter, so he didn’t sing that part of the song. I do believe the prof was odd that way. Odd because he was thinking about the …
IT’S THE BIBLE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Debbie Baker Coffman, a redheaded friend of mine from long before gray hair started sprouting on our heads. She gets a free book for asking the question politely. Here’s her question: How was the …
