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Early in the morning, all the top priests and elders worked out their plans for killing Jesus. They tied Jesus and took him to Pilate. When Judas, who betrayed Jesus, saw that the Jews had condemned Jesus to death, he became consumed with regret. He …
The Bible isn’t the only ancient resource that talks about the Crucifixion of Jesus. Romans talked about it, too. And they talked at length and with passion about crucifixion as a vile and vicious method of execution. As Good Friday approaches, …
THIS IS THE WEEK I ALWAYS THINK ABOUT DAD. I know that it’s a special week for remembering Jesus, but I think of Dad, too. I wrote this script on the first Palm Sunday after my Dad died following his 27-year battle with cancer. The story is …
WITH GOOD FRIDAY AROUND THE CORNER and preachers talking about the suffering and Crucifixion of Jesus, I thought some folks might appreciate a Jerusalem map that shows the sites in the Crucifixion story. The map is the featured photo with this …
HERE’S THE DEAL. Watch at least three of the Easter season videos I’ve created, pick a favorite or the least-bad one, and get a free book. As a bonus, I’ll let you see one of my favorite family videos of all time. My dance with my daughter. With this …
I HAD TO ERASE FROM MY HEAD the picture I had of Jesus nailed to a cross. That’s after spending a year researching my book, Eyewitness to Crucifixion. Four Gospel writers reporting eyewitness accounts of the crucifixion of Jesus don’t describe the …
PREMIERING TONIGHT at 6 o’clock Central Time: 7-minute trailer for the upcoming book Eyewitness to Crucifixion, releasing in February. This book tells the story of what Romans thought of crucifixions they carried out or witnessed. It was …
WITCHES in Roman times visited crucifixion sites to harvest nails and body parts for spells they cast.
I’D NEVER WRITE A BOOK ABOUT HEAVEN. I know the topic can be a bestseller, because everyone wants to know what heaven is like. But no one knows what it’s like, as far as we can tell. I was once asked by a publisher to write a book on the topic. They …
Q LIFE APPLICATION. Here’s one main teaching of Christianity that doesn’t seem to make much sense to people outside the faith: “Our sins are a capital offense, but God sent Jesus to take our punishment. Jesus bled and died for the sins we committed” …
WHY WOULD A SMART GUY like Seneca (4 BC-AD 65) think an 18-year-old Roman emperor would read his essay about mercy? Ten years later, the emperor—Nero—ordered him to commit suicide. Nero, apparently incorrectly, figured that Seneca was in on the plot …
SEE THE PICTURE OF JERUSALEM? That’s what I’m doing at the moment. Making maps for the Gospel of Matthew, for the Casual English Bible paraphrase. This one is a composite image to help folks get an idea about where some of the events took …
