Sister Encarnación: Well, my favorite color is light tan. My favorite animal is puppies. I like serving the Lord. Hiking, play volleyball…
Nacho: You gotta be kidding me. Everything you just said, is MY favorite thing to do, every day!

From the movie Nacho Libre
I nodded off last night watching The Star of Bethlehem, a DVD proving [...]

Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. (2 Corinthians 9:6, NIV) For those of you who are younger I should explain. The thing in the photo is called a “floppy” or in the UK a [...]

“Coded references to biblical passages are inscribed on gunsights widely used by the US and British military in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has emerged.” BBC: Gunsights’ biblical references concern US and UK forces Image: Daily Mail A friend suggested MT10:34, “Do not suppose [...]

I got some interesting responses to a Facebook update: Mike 1: So either a smaller bucket (not desirable), a bigger eye-dropper (nice if you can get one), or be patient about filling the bucket. Eddie: How many [...]

Note: This post originally included content that unfairly criticized a fellow blogger. I apologize for that. At the same time the comment thread contains ideas worth saving and the topic itself is more important than it should be. Numbers in the Bible are loosely symbolic at times but the internal [...]

One of the tensions of the Christian faith is that it is both outwardly and inwardly focused. We look to God, and in his perfection and power we draw him into our fragile selves. His presence purifies ours. Jesus the great God Man is both our model and our champion. So when we wish to [...]

If you’re a techie like me, perhaps this is the kind of meditation we should be doing: I want to make a few comments about Christian Zen mostly for my own sake so that I can process the topic. But I’d also like to hear from those of you who read this [...]

We’re all witches in someone else’s ordeal. This stood out for me yesterday when I was checking through online Biblical resources in Portuguese. I realized that I was running screens on these resources. Do you know what a stock screen is? It’s a series of features that you are looking for in [...]

Send your old Bibles overseas: Recycle your Bible at the Bible League Become a Gideon: “75.9 million Scriptures were distributed last year.” Buy a NLT Bible: ‘Tyndale House Publishers has a significant tie with Wycliffe Bible Translators. A percentage of the sales of all NLT Bibles [...]

The Bible Societies are guilty of sins of omission. By sins of omission I’m not referring to the KJVers’ claim that the Bible societies tampered with the Sacred Writ. Instead, I refer to the fact that by not making an electronic version of the Bible texts freely available on the Internet they have allowed [...]