Following God: The Made Hard Way

Today I saw a book advertised at Christian Book Distributors called Following God: The Made Easy Handbook. Wouldn’t that be great, I thought. Following God made easy. I could sure use a book like that. Unfortunately, the person who made following God hard was Jesus Christ, and he says his is the only way. The [...]

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Odds ‘n Ends and the “Pastoral” Epistles

One of the things I’ve always found irritating is when Bible translators hide things from us. I remember the shock I got when I decided to research the Seraphim of Isaiah 6. Amazingly enough, the Hebrew word “seraphim” is used in more than Isaiah 6. It is found twice in Numbers 21, and once in [...]

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Knowing What You Believe

Recently I bought an Old Testament Survey on clearance from christianbooks.com. “Surveys” give the background, culture, and other details of the books of the Bible. I’ve never read one before, but I’ve been intrigued ever since Noah told me some history he’d read on the minor prophets. I’d recognized by reading, for example, that Micah [...]

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