Blue Collar Bible Commentary

Saturday, August 14, 2010 Here's a little story about one of my very distant relatives who was one of the most loyal, obedient, trustworthy and God-fearing critters to ever bear the sore encumbrance of transporting a human being upon her strong back, a fellow by the name of Balaam, a prophet as a matter of fact ... now it was in no way a noteworthy feat that this faithful Equus asinus was the chief mode of transportation for this particular prophet, seeing that us beasts of burden have...Read Full Story

Ever since I was a you boy at home, I enjoy watching scary movies.  John Carpenter’s 1982 movie “The Thing” is at the top of my “favorites” list.  It is a movie about scientist’s trapped with an alien in an Arctic research station.  The catch is this… the alien can assume the shape and identity of any scientist at the station.  You can imagine the basic idea of the movie, the scientists are constantly in fear, not knowing who is human and who is the alien. It is my ideal type of horror movie...Read Full Story

One day Luther DooLittle showed up at Lamar Beefeater's house carrying a conspicuously new chainsaw ... "where'd you git that?" asked Lamar, fully aware that Luther never did have more than two cents in his pockets to rub together at any given time ... "got it over at the General Store just last night" answered Luther ... "but I thought they was closed at night" replied Lamar ... "they was closed" Luther smugly responded, then proudly added "I stole it!" ... "follow me, I want to show you...Read Full Story

The Gospel of Mark is quite an interesting writing. It is the shortest of all of the Gospels, but is one that jumps right into the action, and reads almost like a Hollywood movie script. So as I study this action-packed writing with the Young Adults Ministry that my wife and I lead, I want to take the opportunity to write about some of what we are discovering in our studies. But before we jump into the text, it is important to lay down some historical context. There are some important things...Read Full Story

The text (Mark 1:21-28, ESV):21 And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching. 22 And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes. 23 And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out, 24 “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are— the Holy One of God.” 25 But Jesus rebuked him...Read Full Story