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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 …
I’LL NOT KEEP YOU IN SUSPENSE. When we can’t get along with our neighbor, we should get along little doggie. Give them their space. Elbow room. Six-foot privacy fence. It’s okay. Jesus said so. Here are three versions of what he said. …
I HOPE THE LADY who sold me a cedar fence doesn’t read this blog. I wouldn’t want to get her employees in trouble. As I type this, Mexico and Brazil are playing World Cup soccer. When I went downstairs for a late lunch, I turned on the TV. I knew …
THIS BIBLE QUESTION caught me off guard. I invited readers to tell me what one question they would ask God if they got the chance. Here’s the question from Brenda Savidge (who gets a free book for her trouble; Brenda, email me): Since God knows …
GREEK MYTHOLOGY has nothing on the Bible when it comes to stories of divine beings having sex with hot-looking human women. At least that’s how some say they read a weird Bible passage: “Divine beings saw how beautiful these human women were, …
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 …
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 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 …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Elaine. She gets a free book for asking it. Question came up in Sunday School today: Why did God make woman from the rib of man and not from dust? OK, Elaine, this is going to come as a shock. Not all …
“I am about to cover the earth with a flood that will destroy every living thing that breathes.” God to Noah, Genesis 6:17 EARTH BECAME WATERWORLD, as the Bible tells it. Anything that breathed got buried at sea—except those lucky enough to be …
“God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.” Genesis 2:8 A GARDEN PARADISE, Eden (EE den) was home to the first humans. Its location, “in the east,” may point toward the Persian Gulf areas of Iraq and Iran—east …
I DUG OUT of 12 inches of snow late last week. It looks like I’m going to get to do it again, early this week. Today, in fact. I’m prepared. I bought a snowblower last fall. We didn’t get any snow last year. I figured that was because my next-door …
