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Surprise!

O kay, Wow! One of my books is available for free right now on Amazon.com. I knew it was going to happen, but I had let it slip my mind. But I didn’t see any harm in it. After all, the whole point is to encourage a broader audience to take a chance on it. Apparently, hundreds of people decided to do just that. It makes my sales numbers look good, even though I’m not making a red cent from any of them.

Do You Know?

S ee if you can answer the following true or false questions without looking them up. Before his death, Barnabas looked up and saw Jesus standing at the right hand of the Father. Saul, later called Paul, held the coats of those who stoned him. One night, Peter preached for so long that a young man went to sleep and fell out of a window to his death. David had a one night stand with Bathsheba while his army was off in battle. As a result, their first son, Solomon was born. The Lord told Hosea to buy Gomer, a prostitute, and marry her. King Saul consulted with a witch and asked her to bring Isaiah back from the dead. Think you know the answers? Compare your answers with those at the end of this post. Did you get them right? The point of this exercise is to highlight the existence of Bible illiteracy . Many people go to church and they claim to believe the Bible and yet they don’t know what the Bible says. Some churches don’t bother teaching from the Old Testament these days. I don’...