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PEOPLE GET TICKED when we tag them with the wrong description. “I am not a secretary. I am an administrative assistant to the president.” They get ticked even when we’re right—when they are a secretary, by any sane definition. Yet they can also be an …
DON’T BEAT ME UP for doing this…for messing with the Bible. I do it as a fun devotional, in my spare time. I try to take the Bible’s meaning and wrap it in words that folks outside the Christian faith could easily follow. Those are …
IT’S THE BIBLE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from a group of teenage girls in a church confirmation class. And it’s reported by Christina Smith Wise who gets a free book for passing the question along to me. (Note to readers: The deal’s still open. …
I DID NOT watch a football game on Sunday evening. I watched a highlight reel, interspersed with a blooper reel. Highlight reel: Seattle Seahawks—the team my son seems irrationally attached to, given that he lives in the middle of the country. Why on …
IT’S THE BIBLE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Igal German, who wins a free copy of one of my books for the effort. Igal, email me. Here’s how Igal put it: Why do people struggle to attend their church regularly? Oddly enough, Netflix comes …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Tommy Hartman, who wins a free book for bothering to ask. Here’s his question: The number 1 question I get all the time from people who question my beliefs is the one I can’t answer. It’s this: “With the …
I PARAPHRASE THE BIBLE as part of a new Bible study technique I’ve been trying out. It helps me see the Bible in a different way. I compare a bunch of translations, and I think about how I would try to put the same stories and teachings in my …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Jessica Pritt, whom I would guess has short hair…or wants to. She starts her question by pointing to a Bible verse: 1 Corinthians 11:6. I’ll give it to you in a moment. Here’s her question: Many people …
A FRIEND OF MINE named Barbara thinks up church volunteer jobs for other people to do. It’s a good thing, in this particular case. Retired, she volunteers a lot of her time at the church. But some jobs are a bit outside her reach because she’s a bit …
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 …
