Almost finished with Beta of Casual English Bible
LET’S SING 2 NEW ORIGINAL SONGS to celebrate. We’re only 37 Bible chapters from being finished with the beta edition of The Casual English Bible®.
Steve is resurfacing
It seems odd that so many obstacles, setbacks, and heartbreaks coincide with me approaching the final months of paraphrasing and mapping The Casual English Bible®.
Wisdom turns you into a gem
IT TOOK 28 CHAPTERS OF JOB’S MISERY before I hit good news in the Book of Job. But it was really good news. In fact, it’s more than good news. It’s a surprise. Which makes it extra good news. That means we’ve already got the good news we expect. So, now we get more than…
Job's angry words to God
I AM SHOCKED at how much “patient” Job shredded God. I’ve written about the Bible almost all my career. But when you have to paraphrase the Bible into casual English, as I do for The Casual English Bible,® you study it like you’ve never studied it before. The safe thing to do would be to…
Suffering Job didn't suffer in silence
I’M SURPRISED and right on the border of shocked and delighted with what is happening in the Bible book of Job, which I am paraphrasing these days. Job had a mouth, an attitude, and plenty of reason to complain. God gave the okay for some mysterious spirit being to send a windstorm that crushed to…
It's Google's fault you missed it
YOU MISSED A BLOG POST that I’d like you to read and to think about. But I can’t release it here. I sent it out from my author website, StephenMillerBooks.com, and the Google guys and gals in charge of Google Search frown on the same writer releasing the same material on two cousin websites. As…
We blew it and you missed it
YOU MISSED SOME IMPORTANT BLOG ARTICLES because we blew it. We’re still trying to shift from one blog delivery system to another. We’ve been trying for months. Bad luck or none at all We’ve had a string of rotten luck, bad timing, and terrible human circumstances that shot our high hopes out of the sky.…
Jeremiah Bible maps ready to download
Here’s a quick heads up and a surprise we’ve got on tap for everyone. Heads up: Jeremiah is done, in beta I just finished the paraphrasing and 3D-styled maps for the 52-chapter book of Jeremiah for The Casual English Bible® (TCEB). Just two more Bible books to go: Job and Ezekiel. I’m saving Ezekiel for…
Artificial intelligence reviews Casual English Bible® maps
After reading what AI (artificial intelligence) said the other day about our Bible paraphrase in AI reviews Casual English Bible,® I decided I’d stick my neck out again. I asked ChatGPT to critique our maps, too. My Q for AI about Bible maps This was my request: “Can you critique, compare, and contrast the kind…
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. I’ll not critique the critique. Hear the voice of one crying from out of a cloud: “Engaging, conversational, easy-to-read”…
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 themselves as atheists. Those conversations could go poorly quickly. One threatened to call on his friends…
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 warned the Jewish nation of Judah that if they didn’t stop sinning, he was going to…
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 cold and rising snow. My entire core family went there together: wife, daughter with husband and two sons, son…
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 Destruction” (2 Thessalonians 2:3, Casual English Bible®). Here are some of Paul’s clues in 2 Thessalonians 2: “This guy is so…
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 about what God might do to us because of our nation’s persistent sins? Or were the warnings for…
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 often refer to him as LORD—over 7,000 times. That title comes from God’s answer when Moses asked for his name. God simply said, “I…
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 University for evaluation. Maizey, as I wrote last week, has been diagnosed with lymphoma. It’s not a curable…
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 nothing more we can do, what keeps God from showing mercy? Why does he seem to sit on this…
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. And to all Silent Night. Signup to the new Casual English Bible® blog Steve’s Bible-background YouTube Channel Steve’s song from the words of prophet…
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 point. She was changing techniques from waterboarding, as she called it, to fingernails on the chalkboard, as I…
