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I hate talk­ing about reli­gion.  Argu­ing if what you or I believe is right or wrong is a waste of energy in my opin­ion. But that being said, I do enjoy talk­ing about the Bible.  You’d think grow­ing up in the church I’d know that book inside and out, but I don’t. 

I find myself mut­ter­ing on most Sun­days, “C’mon now, Pas­tor.  You’re just preach­ing from that book and chap­ter because you know I can’t find it. Then by the time I do find it, you’ve already read it and are about 15 min­utes into your ser­mon and I’m lost!”

I obvi­ously need an E-Bible.

I’ve also never been keen on Sun­day School class, but I find myself on Sun­day morn­ings get­ting excited over my new class.  The teacher, Dr. Wave Nun­nally is the Indi­ana Jones of Bible his­tory and lan­guage.  Right now we’re work­ing our way through 2 Kings, which would boar me to tears if taught by any other person. 

Some­one in the class had brought up the frus­tra­tion of hav­ing to defend the Bible as truth to his Reli­gious pro­fes­sor, so Wave pointed us to this really cool book, Old Tes­ta­ment Par­al­lels .  There are let­ters that have been found that are linked to the sto­ries in the Old Testament.  For exam­ple there is a let­ter from a mil­i­tary offi­cer to the lead­ing offi­cer in Jerusalem talk­ing about how they are about to get taken over from a siege around their town…which is also writ­ten about in the Old Testament.

I just find it incred­i­bly excit­ing and much more real.  Unfor­tu­nately, the Old Tes­ta­ment can be a bit bor­ing in places (…and Heza­joca begat Abeeby, who begat, Aboo­boo…), so a discussion/read like this just feeds my hunger for the Truth.

(I have to give props to Ex-Attorney Gen­eral, John Ashcroft for start­ing our SS class this past Sun­day with a hymn.  I had NO idea he had such a smooth singing voice!)