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IT MAY SOUND IRREVERENT but I think of Sunday worship in church as Show and Tell. The worship service is the Show. The Bible study or Sunday School—if your seeker-sensitive church staff will let you call it Sunday School—is the Tell. That’s where we …
IT HAS BEEN RAINING all morning. It hasn’t rained this way since I can’t remember when. The ground has been thirsty. And I’ve grown weary of being stuck between blue skies and hard-packed dirt. It’s the dead of winter, but I’ve been writing all …
I KNOW that the title of this post sounds odd. But it’s true. I found out about it on Christmas Eve—the perfect night to hear the news. The church I attend has multiple locations throughout the Greater Kansas City area: Church of the Resurrection. We …
THIS IS NOT a product placement blog. Unless, of course, Wendy’s or Googie Burger would like to buy some ad space. With Christmas almost here, I’ve been thinking about how Jesus might want me to celebrate his birthday. I know. Christmas is probably …
THERE ARE NOTHING BUT GUESSES about what exactly led the wise men to Bethlehem. Clues in the Bible: It pointed toward Israel. The star led them initially to the capital of the Jewish homeland, not to Bethlehem: “Some wise men from eastern lands …
WHY DO CHURCHES tend to have have a picture of European Jesus hanging on their walls? I got that question in an email yesterday. You know the picture. Reddish-brown hair. Stylish beard. White robe–with some copies showing him wearing a red …
AS WE APPROACH ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, we’re seeing a lot of Christians once again rallying around the Republicans. Some are saying pretty nasty stuff about any so-called Christians who vote Democrat. Sometimes it’s not that blatant. A …
IN A VISION about how the world as we know it will end, John of Revelation sees a global gathering of “all the rulers and their armies to a place with the Hebrew name “Armageddon” (Revelation 16:16). John, however, never gets around to …
LAST WEEK A HARVARD BIBLE SCHOLAR, Dr. Karen King, announced the discovery of a tiny shred of an ancient book that contains this jarring line: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife’…” The book—apparently part of a previously lost Gospel about …
