Christmas 2020
I hope you enjoy my Christmas thoughts for this year. https://youtu.be/Sg3_uqoB-hw Merry Christmas! Bob
Islam and the Incarnation
Islam and the Incarnation Part 3 of a Discussion on Islam A “Lazarus Chronicles” Post The Nature of God Some people assume that all religions are alike: be good, be kind, behave. As much as some of those commands link many religions together, more often than not the details of [...]
Islam Yesterday and Today, part 2
A Review of Sword and Scimitar by Raymond Ibrahim (De Capo Press, New York, 2018) Introduction: Although Victor David Hansen tells us in the forward that Raymond Ibrahim chronicles eight major battles between Islam and the West, this book is more than a military history. As Hansen describes it, the [...]
Lazarus Helps Me Give Thanks
Lazarus Helps Me Give Thanks NOTE: With Thanksgiving upon us, I thought it best to talk to Lazarus about giving thanks. I’ll return next week with the second installment of my discussion about Islam. “This Thanksgiving Holiday of yours is unique in history.” Lazarus began. “I believe so. People [...]
Islam Yesterday and Today
ISLAM YESTERDAY AND TODAY One of the most intriguing, beloved, and imitated characters in contemporary fiction is Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s master of observation and deduction. The hit television show Elementary has updated this super-sleuth, given him a female partner but maintained his genius at putting together the right conclusions [...]
Money, Money, Money
MONEY, MONEY, MONEY A “Coffee with Lazarus” Post “Greed, greed, greed!” “Freedom, freedom, freedom!” Lazarus and I had been going around in circles for some time. He kept pressing home the greed issue. “Isn’t greed a form of idolatry?” He insisted. I knew the Apostle Paul’s warning about it: [...]
Coffee with Lazarus
Lazarus and I Discuss an Election Issue A "Coffee with Lazarus" Post I’m sitting down to talk with my friend Lazarus. He was one of the lucky persons to die and be brought back to this life (John 11) though he enjoys the next life now. I’m one of the [...]
“Conversations”
I am beginning a new video series this week called "Conversations." It is just what it sounds like, conversations about various topics related to The Lazarus Chronicles. This first post explains what we will be doing. Join us each week as we discuss the Gospel of Luke. I'll have a [...]
The Insanity Defense
You’ve heard it before: “You’re crazy.” It’s what your friends might say when you come up with some off the wall idea: quitting college, moving to Alaska, or just doing something out of the ordinary. They don’t really mean crazy in the true psychological definition of the word. However, there [...]
The Felix Effect
I’ve not seen the movie but I did read the book, The Shack. I read recently that in the movie when the main character asks God (called Papa) about his wrath, God responds, “My what? You lost me there.” This strikes me as a mark of our age. We have [...]