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IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Andrew Campbell, who gets a free book for his trouble. Here’s his question: I know you answered a question for a guy a while back about guns and personal defense [Christians, guns & self-defense]. Why …
I’M GUESSING we’re about to witness a new wave of worriers. It’s graduation time. High school and college kids are going to be looking for work – during the deepest recession since the Great Depression. Which would make this the Great Recession. Some …
SOMEONE I LOVE did a disgusting thing. If I told you what it was, you would say, “Disgusting.” And you might not read any further. Yet this disgusting thing is the very reason I appreciate the Cross of Jesus as much as I do. How odd is that. Remember …
“They went to the olive grove called Gethsemane, and Jesus said, ‘Sit here while I go and pray.’” Mark 14:32 AFTER THE LAST SUPPER, Jesus and most of his disciples went to Gethsemane to pray. Judas, however, went to get temple officers. He brought …
SEVERAL LINES in the Lord’s Prayer sound remarkably like other prayers that Jews were praying at the time. The most obvious parallel shows up in the way Jesus started his prayer. He seemed to pull from one particular Jewish prayer that was—and still …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from a gent who’d like to remain anonymous. He wins a free book for his trouble. Here’s his question: Why do most Christians say Jesus is God when the Bible uses the phrase “son of God”? There’s nothing divine …
IT COMES AS A SURPRISE to most folks, but one of the techniques Jesus used to heal the blind is very much like some remedies that show up in a first-century Roman collection of 37 science books called Natural History, written by a Roman named Pliny. …
IT’S A BONUS QUESTION OF THE WEEK. A Valentine’s Day Special Edition. I got this question a few days ago from an emotionally exhausted divorcee who has remarried a divorced man. Both divorced. Both remarried. They’re struggling over what Jesus …
ONE OF JESUS’ MOST INTRIGUING medical cases was this: “A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding. She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, …
TIME WAS RIPE for God to once again step into Jewish history. Many observant Jews, if not most, believed it. They believed it because of what they read in their Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament. Prophets several centuries before Jesus …
WHAT SIGN will signal your return and the end of the world?” (Matthew 24:3, NLT) Seems like a simple enough question the disciples asked Jesus. But given his convoluted answer, you’d think a five-year-old had just asked Daddy where babies come from. …
OF ALL THE MIRACLES Jesus could have performed to launch his ministry—healing the sick or raising the dead—his first miracle on record was to liven up a party with enough wine to get more than 1,000 people legally drunk. At least by today’s measure …
