AI reviews The Casual English Bible®
I POLITELY ASKED CHATGPT to critique The Casual English Bible® (TCEB)—weighing in on it's ups and downs. I gave the AI Matthew 5, which is part of Jesus's most famous sermon, the Sermon on the Mount. …
Chat with an atheist
WOULD YOU LIKE TO LISTEN IN ON A CONVERSATION I had this week with a person of science who said he wasn’t a person of faith? Over the years I've had a lot of conversations with people who identified …
What keeps me up at night
TWO WORRIES keep me up at night. My dying dog, and what appears to be my dying country. I JUST ERASED Israel from the world map. I did it last week, when I paraphrased Jeremiah chapter 39. God had …
Where is a happy family in the Bible?
ALL SMILES. My son and two of my grandchildren ride this happy Disney moment to the end of the line. DISNEY WORLD is where my family spent the middle of February, far from Kansas City's blistering …
Is Trump Paul’s “Man Above the Law”?
IMAGINE we’ve been assigned the job of solving a mystery: Who was the apostle Paul talking about when he predicted a “revolution,” starring the “Man Above the Law,” also known as the “Son of …
Jeremiah’s warning: USA as China’s 24th province?
IF GOD TREATS OUR NATION LIKE ANCIENT ISRAEL, might he erase us from the world map as the Bible says he did with Israel? Invaders deported them and took their land. DO BIBLE PROPHECIES WARN US TODAY …
Jeremiah's God sounds scary
WHO WOULDN'T HUG JESUS, the compassionate healer? On the other hand, there's God. In the Jewish Bible, which Christians usually call the Old Testament or sometimes the First Testament, writers most …
Wednesday to come
WEDNESDAY WILL BE A TOUGH DAY. I was thinking about it last week. I sat at my office desk, imagining what might happen on January 15, when we take our six-year-old black lab, Maizey, to Kansas State …
Maizey our dog, diagnosed with lymphoma
MAIZEY runs with some of her pack. On the Saturday after Christmas our vet gave us the news. Swollen lymph glands on her neck tested positive for lymphoma. WHEN WE FACE A TOUGH SITUATION and there’s …
Silent Night
ONCE MORE WITH FEELING. Here's one last listen at a new release of Silent Night. It's a whispering, mellow sound, recorded on a microphone from an earlier generation. Enjoy. Merry Christmas to all. …
What we look like isn’t who we are
THE DENTIST’S CHAIR is not a place I usually associate with spirituality or things of God. But it was there this morning that I learned something about who we are. The dental hygienist was at a pause …
Printer rejects Casual English Bible
A MOUSY QUIET PRINTER I met at a meal last week texted me a strange note earlier this week. In it, he refused to print a Bible I never asked him to print. "Good morning Steve, I have decided to not …