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IT’S THE TRUTH, far as I can tell. It didn’t happen to me. It happened to my daughter on Wednesday. She drives a white Toyota Camry. She told the world what happened. She posted it on Facebook at about four in the afternoon. I’ll have you know …
I’M A LITTLE NERVOUS about a series of lessons I have to help teach in the next few weeks. We’re calling the series “The B-I-B-L-E, yes that’s the book for me.” It’s a four-week set of lessons. I teach two of them. The one that has me nervous is the …
NOAH IS OUR GRANDPA, the Bible says. We’re all related to him since his family is the only one the Bible says survived the worldwide flood. So why don’t we look like him? Why do some of us look like the relative nobody in the family wants to talk …
“YOU’VE GOT MAIL” isn’t something Jesus would have heard very often. If ever. There was no postal service for normal people. It was, however, available for abnormal people like politicians. Romans called their officials-only postal service “the …
FRIENDS OF MINE hosted a high school graduation party at their home last weekend for their only child, a daughter. Sweet, intelligent, sensitive soul. I’ve watched her grow up over the past several years. I’ve watched her parents, too. They’re in my …
WHEN I WAS A KID, everyone seemed to think the last book in the Bible—Revelation—was about Last Things. End Times. The Antichrist. Armageddon. Not so much anymore, at least among the crowd of Bible scholars. Steve Cooper hints at that in what has …
LET’S SAY I HAVE A FRIEND. This is a hypothetical, of course. Not that I have a friend, but the story that’s about to follow. Let’s say this person is a very good friend. Yeah, let’s call him that: VGF. He has this neighbor who has …
“WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO HELP YOU paint tomorrow?” I asked my daughter. Rebecca is grown and married. She and her husband got the keys to their first home last week. Half a dozen rooms needed painted. Three coats each. It takes a lot of paint to cover a …
I FOUGHT THE BATTLE of the divine H, and lost. The battle involves questions like these: When writing about God, should we talk about Him or him? Is God a He or a he? For some readers, the nit-picky tininess of this question might evoke a he-he. …
WITH A COUPON in my pocket for a $9.99 haircut at Great Clips, I looked online to see how long I’d have to wait. Seven minutes. Just long enough to get there. I typed in my name and phone number. That’s all I had to do to check in online. …
IN CASE YOU’RE WONDERING how I go about writing a blog, here’s a crash course. A few minutes ago I didn’t have any idea what I would write for today. Then, sitting here staring out the window, it occurred to me: What about looking at the bad reviews …
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, …
