Crack the Good Book

In this, our final episode of the season, we celebrate the gift of God's word in our own language with a story of historical fiction that I've written. Enjoy, and keep going with those Bible-reading plans!

In the Old Testament there isn't a single exorcism. In the New Testament writings that come after the Gospels, you hear very little about demons. So why this concentrated activity in the four Gospels? What was going on?

As a Greek physician, Luke would have been well-versed in the various treatments given to ailing patients. But with Jesus, he would have seen something entirely new.

In this episode we pick up on the theme of Jesus' authority. But whereas that authority was seen yesterday in the realm of his teaching, in this episode it is seen in the spiritual realm.

What does it mean that Jesus "taught with authority?" What was so different about the way that he taught from everyone else?

There was a time a few years ago when our four year-old was having night terrors...

In this episode I take us where I so often find myself veering: into the secret paradise of the spectacular Song of Solomon.

A Scottish thinker by the name of Henry Drummond once said, "If you think for a moment, you will find that people who influence you are people who believe in you. In an atmosphere of suspicion, men shrivel up..."

There is a kind of woman who deeply loves men and is delighted in real men. She it is who bolsters their weaknesses and builds up their strengths.

What if Steven Spielberg called you up one day and asked you to play a role in one of his movies? And what if that role were written specifically for you?