by Larry Eubanks | Aug 12, 2015 | Opinion
We use the phrase, “safe and sound,” often enough that it’s easy to think that the two words are almost synonymous and that the distinction is a matter of nuance. But it’s not. Someone once illustrated the difference. “The steamship whose...
by Larry Eubanks | Aug 4, 2015 | Opinion
It’s maddening when a person answers a question with another question. A time or two is all right, but it’s frustrating when they do it all the time. Add this to the reasons that Jesus can be quite frustrating. In his book, “Jesus Is the...
by Larry Eubanks | Jul 28, 2015 | Opinion
The defining characteristic of the biblical prophets was not the ability to predict the future, especially not in the Nostradamus-type way that we tend to think of it in modern times. Neither was their role primarily that of acting as the social conscience for ancient...
by Larry Eubanks | Jun 19, 2015 | Opinion
On every baseball team there is always a kid who has a hard time judging fly balls. This is the guy who is so fixated on where the ball is that he never can figure out where the ball is going to be. So the coach puts him out in right field, where fewer balls are hit....
by Larry Eubanks | Jun 12, 2015 | Opinion
The Bible can be difficult to understand. Books have been written about how to study the Bible. Invariably they say that you should start by trying to understand what a passage meant to its original audience, to understand their culture, their history. There are...
