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OKAY, THAT’S NOT MY QUESTION. That’s the question from a woman who’s struggling for an answer. I got the question this week. It’s one of more than 10,000 questions and comments in response to my YouTube video “What Romans said about crucifixion.” I …
WHEN I NEED A SHORT BREAK, or at the end of my workday, I answer emails along with comments on my blog and my YouTube channel. Here’s a taste of it from the past 24 hours. I’m not Trump’s Stephen Miller “Tonight, as you settle into your …
WELL THAT WAS A SURPRISE. The Bible background video I produced on a shoestring with duct tape—“What Romans said about the crucifixion”—topped a million views over the weekend. Sad to say, I can’t predict what Bible background videos (or books) …
DID THE SOLDIER AT THE CROSS really say Jesus was the divine Son of God? I remember watching actor John Wayne in a cameo performance for “The Greatest Story Ever Told,” the 1965 film about the life of Jesus. Mr. Wayne, known as the Duke, played the …
Q Luke reports that when Jesus died there was an eclipse or something that darkened the sky. He also says “The curtain in the Temple ripped right down the middle” (Luke 23:45). Matthew said the ripped curtain took place during an earthquake. The …
AS THEY LED JESUS TO HIS EXECUTION, they arrested a bystander named Simon of Cyrene, who had just come into town. They forced him to carry the cross of Jesus. By this time a huge crowd had started to follow the procession headed to the place of …
WE’RE IN A COUNTDOWN to the execution of God’s Son. After tomorrow, there’s just three more Friday’s to go. Come sundown on March 30, when Jews begin their Sabbath rest, Jesus will be resting in peace. At least that’s …
HERE’S THE HEADLINE of a surprising article in my local Kansas City Star: “Was Jesus crucified during a solar eclipse? NASA shows one occurred in 33 A.D.” I live near the zone of totality for the eclipse that’s coming on Monday. Clouds permitting, …
“It was about noon when everything went dark. Darkness covered the whole area for about three hours, until about 3 o’clock…Jesus screamed out loud, ‘Father, my spirit is in your hands now.’ After he said that, he took his last breath.” Luke 23:44-46 …
FIRST TIME I WENT TO PRISON to visit someone, I felt ashamed. Guilty by association, perhaps. My friend had done something shameful, and was paying the price. When I walked into the prison, the entrance opened into what looked like an atrium to a …
IT’S TIME FOR JESUS TO DIE AGAIN. We kill him every year, in a sense. We do it on Good Friday, by remembering what he went through to save us. We don’t understand why he had to die, or why God couldn’t come up with a better plan. …
CRITICS OF THE CRUCIFIXION STORY argue that the Romans would never have allowed anyone to take the body of Jesus off the cross. As one gentleman wrote me after watching my video, What Romans Said About Crucifixion, The Romans were absolutely in …
