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OPERATION AL-AQSA FLOOD. Hamas named it’s attack of Jewish settlers after a place of worship, the silver-domed mosque in Jerusalem. It’s beside the famous gold-topped Dome of the Rock, built 1400 years ago on the spot where many say the …
JESUS SHOWS UP 700 years before his birth, in a dramatic prophecy from the Book of Isaiah: Isaiah 53. At least that’s what most Christian scholars seem to say. They say Jesus is the mysterious Servant of God who suffers and dies for the sins of …
This is controversial, but I wanted to try to quickly and objectively explain why some Christians back Israel even though the Israeli government continually confiscates land that Palestinian families have lived on for centuries.
I’M NOT SAYING ISRAELIS should invade Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey. I’d recommend against that, if they asked my opinion. I’ll not wait up for the call. What I would say is this: the anonymous writer of Genesis said God promised Abraham a plug of …
I GET ODD QUESTIONS about the Bible from time to time. Like this one from Jean Yargovan, who wins a free book of mine for taking the time to send the weird question my way. It’s the Bible Question of the Week, my Monday feature. “On Sunday at church …
EVEN IF THE BIBLE is not a history book, as many Christians insist, it does have some reliable history. In this week’s Friday Fun Facts, I should probably tell you a little about that, since in my last two blog posts I reported why some Christians …
WELL MONDAY’S BLOG punched a button. Not the button I expected. Monday’s blog was Why do some Christians doubt Bible history? I gave some of the reasons some Christian say they doubt the accuracy of Bible stories that others read as history. I …
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 …
< IT’S BAD ENOUGH that folks remember Herodias as Galilee’s First Lady of Don’t Mess with Me—for getting the head of John the Baptist served up on a platter merely because he called her a sinner. But she had stink left in her after killing John. In …
“Goliath stood and shouted….‘I am the Philistine champion….Choose one man to come down here and fight me!’” 1 Samuel 17:8 Philistine champion warrior Killed by shepherd boy David GOLIATH GOT NO TAKERS. He offered to settle the war between Jews and …
IT WAS A SMALL VILLAGE David captured: Jebus, which soon became the City of David and later Jerusalem. No more than 2,500 people lived on this 11-acre piece of ground—about the size of 11 football fields: roughly 200 yards (180 m) wide and 600 yards …
VEGETABLES killed Naboth. King Ahab wanted to plant a vegetable garden outside his getaway palace in Jezreel, but Naboth owned a vineyard there. It had been in his family for generations, so he rejected Ahab’s offer to buy it or trade it for a better …
