I had met Paulie in seminary years before. We were going to change the world. He was a brainiac. He graduated and went on to get his doctorate in Arabic. No, not Aramaic. That would have been made sense. He got a doctorate in Arabic. I knew some Arabic. So do you. Don’t […]
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The Further End Times Adventures of Verb McCracken, Chapter 2: Smooshed in Smyrna
I woke up. I saw Dr. Paulie Carp staring at me as he huddled over me with his co-horts. He was the pastor of the next church on my circuit. As my eyesight came into focus, I could see that I was laying in the bed at the parsonage in Smyrna. I loved the […]
The Further End-time Adventures of Verb McCracken, Part 2
The Introduction I had visited the pastor at Ephesus in Georgia. He warned me of the wafer-eating group. They had even interrupted some of his sermons. He wouldn’t be surprised if they would do the same thing to me. My text was from the last book in the Bible. There were strange parallels to all […]
The Further End-time Adventures of Verb McCracken
Spitballs in the face. Accused of embezzlement. Endured six heart bypass surgeries. Bonked on the noggin. Fell out of a speeding car. Lied about. Slandered. Fired. More than once. Nothing compares to what happened to me when I lived in the end of the last era, right before time expired. I figured you might […]
Spiritual Rants: “The Nuts Don’t Fall Far From The Tree” December 31 Daily Bible Readings in a year: Malachi 3:1-4:6 Revelation 22:1-21 Psalm 150:1-6 Proverbs 31:25-31
Old Testament: Malachi 3:1-4:6 Read this passage /on BibleGateway.com Malachi 3:1-4:6 Here Comes The Sun In Chapter 3, the opening verses (vv. 1-3) are used in Handel’s Messiah. They sound pretty cool being sung by a full choir. Jesus will purify Israel when He returns like a “refiner’s fire” (v. 2 as well as 3-4). Verses 5-7 […]