Bizarre Bible Stories
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🎁 FREE BOOK GIVEAWAY & 50% OFF SALE! 📚
Looking for some unique reading before the holidays? I’m giving away free digital copies of Bizarre Christmas Bible Stories to anyone who asks. Hey, it’s Christmas! Just shoot me a private message right here on Facebook, and I’ll send a copy your way. All I ask in return is that you consider leaving an honest…
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A Tiny Favor, A Free Book, and Some Bizarre Bible Stories
Over the past few years, I’ve been able to give away a number of copies of my little stocking-stuffer book, Bizarre Christmas Bible Stories. If you received one, I really hope you and the kids enjoyed diving into the weirder, lesser-known parts of the holiday story, and can enjoy it again this year. If you…
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Loved Before the Stars
Why did God choose you? Why does God love you? Why do you choose to love those close to you? I’m officiating a wedding next week and it’s my first chance to speak publicly in a few months. I’d like to share what is one of the biggest deals to me in all of scripture.…
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Caught
Our verse for the week is a tough truth. Numbers 32:23 (NIV) 23 “You may be sure that your sin will find you out. Try to hide it in the dark, and you will eventually pay for it. Repenting, owning it by putting it in the light of God’s mercy is our only hope. The second…
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The Donkey Was Wiser
Ever been dead wrong and the last one to know it? Meet Balaam. I thought I’d start pulling my “verse for the week” from my Bizarre Bible Stories. The first story in book one is called “Talking Animals,” from Numbers chapter 22. Balaam is riding along, about to do something monumentally foolish, when the angel…
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Refuge
Deuteronomy 4:41 (NLT) 41 Then Moses set apart three cities of refuge east of the Jordan River. From 1998 to 2005 I pastored Elim Chapel in Winnipeg Canada. Elim means “an oasis,” or “a place of refuge.” A refuge is “a safe haven, sanctuary… a place of safety or protection.” When the Israelites entered the Promised…
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Bizarre Love
I’m working my way through Deuteronomy, the farewell address by Moses. I stumbled onto an old truth about God that I’ve known, but somehow it hit me fresh, and even a little bizarre. In chapter four he warns the people that if they break faith with God, they will “arouse His anger” v.25. They’ll disappear…
