by Tad Lindley Did you ever notice that when you are reading a Bible that some of the ink is red? Or that seemingly random words are italicized? Or that occasionally the word LORD appears […]
by Tad Lindley Jesus was born in Bethlehem. The place of his birth was actually prophesied about in the book of Micah, As for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, seemingly insignificant among the clans of Judah – […]
by Tad Lindley It’s quite possible that you, not having grown up around Jewish people, have never heard of Hanukkah. Hanukkah is a Jewish festival that lasts for eight nights and eight days. It is […]
by Tad Lindley There is a fair amount of shadow hate speech on social media targeting Christianity. One of those posts that I will try to reproduce here for you goes something like this: The […]
by Tad Lindley While discussing favorite seasons, one said, “Winter, because snow is easier to deal with.” Another said, “That’s because you’re young, when you’re older, you’ll see it differently.” I said, “My favorite season […]
by Tad Lindley Some of you read my title and are hoping that I’m going to tell some way to get ahold of elephant tranquilizer or some other drug that is even more powerful than […]
by Tad Lindley Did you ever buy fruit that looked so beautiful, but when you brought it home and tried to eat it, it was either over-ripe and mushy, or it was still unripe and […]
by Tad Lindley For thousands of years people have understood the concept of the resurrection. Even in the midst of his horrible tragedies, Job was able to speak in faith: For I know that my […]
by Tad Lindley So often we hear people talking about the “separation of church and state”. This phrase is not found in the United States Constitution. It was originated by Thomas Jefferson in a letter […]
by Tad Lindley I was saying to somebody, “I’m deeply concerned about the way the current administration is turning their back on Israel.” To which they said, “Israel will come out victorious in the end.” “It’s […]
by Tad Lindley The younger of the twin brothers was named Jacob, he was a mama’s boy. He liked to hang out in camp all the time. The older twin, Esau, was a nukalpiaq, spending […]
by Tad Lindley T he 2024 Alaska PFD is $1,702. Some folks might get angry at me for writing about giving some of their dividend to God. Understand that I stand to gain nothing. Nobody […]
by Tad Lindley The Bible is full of “firsts”! In Genesis alone we find the: •First day (1:1-5) •First sin (3:6) •First murder (4:8) •First musician (4:21) •First metalworker (4:22) •First rapture (5:24) •First rainfall […]
by Tad Lindley If you grew up with two parents, then the chances are good that if one parent said, “No”, that you went to the other parent in hopes that they would say, “Yes.” […]
by Tad Lindley You probably know what the acronym LOL stands for, and perhaps TTYL and ROFL. In the world of Bibles, KJV is probably the most common acronym, and you already know that it […]
by Tad Lindley You know that I don’t spend a lot of time on Facebook. The account “Tad Lindley” is managed primarily by my wife. But once in a while I get sucked in and […]
by Tad Lindley This column is based on a message preached by Rev. Jimmy Toney at the 2017 family campmeeting in Sterling, AK. The second mark: 666 One of the best known passages of scripture, […]
by Tad Lindley Matt Dawson, a Canadian field hockey player, broke his ring finger rather badly. To make it right again would require reconstructive surgery. There was only one problem, Mr. Dawson wanted to play […]
by Tad Lindley I n Helmand Province, Afghanistan on February 9, 2008. Matthew Croucher and three other British Marines were on a reconnaissance mission. While going through a building, they triggered a trip wire grenade. […]
by Tad Lindley When I was younger I worked summers in Bristol Bay. One of the camps was on the Egegik River up near the lake. Down by the top of the lagoon there were […]
by Tad Lindley During the last presidential election, we still had a landline phone, and every day we were getting calls from people claiming that they were doing political research. Sometimes it was issue related, […]
by Tad Lindley Did you ever hear that eating the candy, Pop Rocks, while drinking soda could kill you? When I was in high school, the word on the streets was that the Life cereal […]
by Tad Lindley They had fished all night, and they had caught nothing. They skunked. They were probably thinking, “Man, I could have stayed home and slept, but now the sun is rising and I […]
by Tad Lindley Sometimes we get into the mindset that if we only had enough money, all of our problems would be fixed. That’s why you may have been in meetings where somebody said, “If […]
by Tad Lindley You’ve probably seen them too. People with straight cut marks in locations on their body where people are most likely to see them, like their arms. Since that sort of self-mutilation has […]
by Tad Lindley Some of you are still working on herring or whitefish and maybe thinking about halibut, but here on the Kuskokwim, we are thinking about king salmon. Did you know that Jesus is […]
by Tad Lindley I knew what I needed to do, tap-tap, two shots in the chest and one in the head. The front sight dropped down between the rear sights. Forward on the right hand back […]
by Tad Lindley At least that’s what they used to read. Nowadays it seems like a lot of them have replaced the word “romance” with the words “sex life”. If you’ve never seen them, they […]
by Tad Lindley Last week we looked at the failed attempts of Haman and Hitler to destroy the Jewish people. We compared it to the current attempts of Hamas to wipe the nation of Israel […]
by Tad Lindley For thousands of years now, there have been men who hated the Jews. They have dedicated their lives to destroying the Hebrew people. For almost 2,000 years the Jews had no nation […]
by Tad Lindley Used to be vegetarian In the beginning people did not hunt for food. We were all vegetarian. We had a different relationship with animals. They were not afraid of us. It wasn’t […]
by Tad Lindley The Bible is a collection of writings that spanned 3,200 years. It claims to be the words of God given to a series of at least 36 men (including the heathen king, […]
by Tad Lindley The Bible is a collection of writings that spanned 3,200 years. It claims to be the words of God given to a series of at least 36 men (including the heathen king, […]
by Tad Lindley In these last days, people seeking to discredit God have derided Christianity as being oppressive to women. They have cast the church into the role of tyrant, controlling people’s lives. By undermining […]
by Tad Lindley Please take a look at last week’s issue for Part I. Why is it that people who weren’t there often know exactly what you should have done to be more successful?These self-proclaimed […]
by Tad Lindley Did you ever go out and you fished really hard, maybe even tore up your net, and burned up a bunch of gas and yet you only came home with a few […]
by Tad Lindley As we get close to the celebration of Easter by many Christians, I offer this explanation to attempt to cover a complex topic. This has run in previous years, but always on […]
by Tad Lindley I wish that he had said, “homeless alcoholic”, but he didn’t. Instead, as our children played in their living room, and my wife and I visited with he and his wife, he said […]
by Tad Lindley The Hebrew Bible, commonly referred to as the Old Testament, has 613 commandments. Perhaps you are more familiar with the Ten Commandments found in Exodus 20, but Jewish scholars have studied the […]
by Tad Lindley Any way you look at it, 70 miles is a long walk. It is about three and a half days of long walking. Seventy miles would take you from Bethel to Kwigillingok, […]
by Tad Lindley This is excerpted and edited from a message preached without notes by the late Johnny James at the Pentecostals of Alexandria. It can be heard in its entirety on Youtube by searching […]
by Tad Lindley I have a hard time sleeping in a tent in bear country. I am plagued by visions of the bear’s gaping maw pressing against the thin nylon of the tent until he finds […]
by Tad Lindley Sometimes you run into people who are looking for a way to discredit the Bible. They ask this question: How could a loving God send people to Hell? The motivation behind the […]
by Tad Lindley In times past, the high tide line was littered with the rotting bodies of chum salmon. Fisherman had high graded their catch, and the result was that the better fish were kept, […]
by Tad Lindley The king’s messenger came into the winter palace with a scroll. What the scroll contained was what we know of today as the first 35 chapters of the book of Jeremiah, the […]
by Tad Lindley Recently I was talking with my good friend, and he said, “I always read your article every week.” Forgive me for having ego problems, but in my mind I reached around and […]
by Tad Lindley As our creator, God loves all people. Even those who do not recognize him. Whether we are an atheist worshiping the intellect of man, or idolator bowing down and kissing statues, or […]
by Tad Lindley What is the longest you have ever gone without food? I personally know a couple of modern men who have gone 40 days (search “Josh Herring fasting” on YouTube for his testimony). […]
by Tad Lindley It is somewhat difficult to write about this, because I hold Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Joseph, her husband, in such high regard. It is important you understand that their neighbors […]
by Tad Lindley When the angel came to the shepherds he gave them this message: “Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto […]
by Tad Lindley Have you ever been on an Alaska Airlines flight and you take your seat and then you see a dog come down the aisle accompanying its owner? Or perhaps you have been […]
by Tad Lindley Perhaps you saw this meme posted on Facebook. I have seen it before, but it popped up recently as a repost and I thought that I would address it. I want to […]
by Tad Lindley We tend to think of Thanksgiving as a modern American holiday. It’s not. If you attended public schools, you may have been taught that the first Thanksgiving involved the English speaking Pilgrims […]
by Tad Lindley At some point in his life, Moses had to have realized that his biological dad, Amram, was actually also his iluq (cousin)! Not only that, it turns out that his biological mother, […]
by Tad Lindley You’ve probably been there and seen it happen. You’re not a doctor, but, nevertheless, when you sized them up, you felt that MacDonald’s was not the best dietary choice for them. Perhaps […]
by Tad Lindley Right now Israel is at war with Hamas. Many people are wondering if this is the beginning of the end of time as prophesied in the book of Revelation. Let’s take a […]
by Tad Lindley Growing up Mom was paranoid about mayonnaise going bad. My memory could be exaggerating it, but it seemed like if the jar of Hellman’s Real mayonnaise (we never used Miracle Whip) ever […]
by Tad Lindley M y wife’s family is one of the best things that ever happened to me in my life. My father-in-law taught me so much through the years, and I dearly miss him. […]
by Tad Lindley Last week war erupted in Israel, with over 700 dead, including some American citizens, and thousands injured. Could this be the start of WW III? In World War I the total number […]
by Tad Lindley If we were to talk to every kindergartner in every local school and ask them what they want to be when they grow up, we would get responses like, pilot, agent, health […]
by Tad Lindley There were ten caskets at the funeral. Ten bodies carried to the cemetery. Ten fresh graves and ten new gravestones. They were the seven sons and three daughters of Job and his […]
by Tad Lindley Remember when you were younger and they used to tell the young men, “Make sure that you dump honey buckets for elders, so you can become a good provider when you grow […]
by Tad Lindley Remember how some of those sweepstakes by mail used to let you choose your Early Bird prize if you won? It would be something like a choice between a new sports car […]
by Tad Lindley For those who are reading on the internet or get the Delta Discovery in the lower 48 and who might be unfamiliar with the term “honey bucket”, let me explain. Where we […]
by Tad Lindley It was early morning a couple weeks ago and I was going to Kasigluk for work. Sometimes people profile me as the type of person that would have a covered boat, but […]
by Tad Lindley It has been said, “There are three kinds of people in this world, those who can count, and those who can’t.” Which one are you? The quiz What is? The number of […]
by Tad Lindley Noah was one of the least successful preachers in history. He preached for at least a hundred years and reached only seven souls. Those seven souls were his wife, his three sons, […]
by Tad Lindley A reader recently sent in this question, and it is a very valid question: I have so many on TikTok, that are saying we don’t go through the tribulation, they keep saying we […]
by Tad Lindley A question was once posed to me, “What about Mike and Mary?” Those aren’t the real names. I couldn’t remember the real names, so I used Mike and Mary instead. The thrust of […]
by Tad Lindley I was discussing Guilty in the Courts Part I with my friends, and they sowed the seeds of this thought: we were guilty long before law enforcement officers ever caught up with us. […]
by Tad Lindley You’ve got to come into this thing skeptically. There are so many different viewpoints and so many people preaching human traditions as if they were the word of God, that we must […]
by Tad Lindley For many years this was always the second page in the Delta Discovery that I turned to. What do you think the first page was? My friend, Raymond, and I were talking […]
by Tad Lindley (For younger readers, before mP3s and CDs, we had records. Records looked like large CDs. You could put them on a record player and spin it backwards with your hands and hear […]
by Tad Lindley Not counting funerals or weddings, what is the longest church service you have ever been to? We usually run about 90 minutes to 2 hours where I go to church. Then people […]
by Tad Lindley Remember in the Bible when Peter got out of the boat and began to walk on the water? (Matthew 14:22-36) Remember when Jesus fed the 5,000 men plus women and children with […]
by Tad Lindley We’ve probably all heard the song Jesus Paid It All. You know, the one that goes, Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe, sin had left a crimson stain, he […]
by Tad Lindley This past Sunday marked the Jewish celebration of Shavuot, or the Feast of Weeks. The Greek name for the Feast of Weeks is Pentecost, which means “fiftieth”. You see, the Pentecost occurs […]
by Tad Lindley A 6 hour church service! Imagine a church service that started at 6:00 AM and lasted until noon. The service started with prayer and worship, and then for the next five hours, […]
by Tad Lindley There are some advances in technology I thank God for. The chainsaw sure saves a lot of sweat and time. The outboard motor sure beats rowing. The telephone is much better than […]
by Tad Lindley I was participating in a training session required for all teachers in Alaska. The training was based on a medical condition, and near the end of the training, they dropped this bomb: […]
by Tad Lindley You have heard of the mark of the beast, and perhaps you have heard the Antichrist referred to as The Beast, but did you know that there are actually two beasts in […]
by Tad Lindley Quick Yup’ik Lesson Skip this section if you can already speak Yup’ik, otherwise, stay with me. Ellam is a one-syllable word that rhymes with “thumb”. To pronounce ellam you must realize that […]
by Tad Lindley Now that it’s just us men, let me tell you the reason I titled this For Husband Only. I know that if your wife reads this, she is liable to say, “Brother […]
by Tad Lindley If you are an avid Bible reader you probably already know that the word mystery appears in the Bible 27 times. You probably also know that the record holder is the Book […]
by Tad Lindley God had struck Egypt with 9 plagues: blood, frogs, lice, flies, beef, boils, hail, locusts, and darkness. After each plague, Pharaoh (the name for the Egyptian king), refused to let Moses and […]
by Tad Lindley Many years ago, about 3,200 years or so, the Hebrew people were slaves in Egypt. They had entered Egypt as unusual heroes 400 years before that, but as their population grew and […]
by Tad Lindley There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. (Hosea 2:15) Achan gets greedy… The Book of Joshua records the story of […]
by Tad Lindley Conversations like this have been happening for the last 2,000 years now: “Dude, I just scored a few grams, come over and we’ll smoke some bowls and play PubG!” “Nope on the […]
by Tad Lindley Oftentimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and this case is no different. The man had been blind from birth and to make a long story shorter, Jesus spat on the ground […]
by Tad Lindley My favorite spot of all the places I’ve ever camped is the North Spit at Goodnews Bay. When we used to commercial fish there, we camped where the Tunt guys camp. They […]
by Tad Lindley If you are an avid Bible reader you probably already know that the word mystery appears in the Bible 27 times. You probably also know that the record holder is the Book […]
by Tad Lindley I was fairly new in the land of the Yup’ik people, and I didn’t want to be a bad guest, but my body was covered with sweat and I was thirsty. “You […]
by Tad Lindley I have been running this column every year about this time in hopes that someone my read it and live to tell about it. It would seem like with the days getting […]
by Tad Lindley Skip ahead if you already know this, but for those that don’t know it, I will start here. About 2,025 years ago God was manifested in the flesh (I Timothy 3:16). In […]
by Tad Lindley Let me come clean with you and confess that I am not a person who usually makes New Year’s Resolutions, but a lot of people do, and so I write to all […]
by Tad Lindley Dear Reader, even though the holidays can be a joyous time, for many they are a very tough time. Consider the story of Joseph below. He spent numerous Christmases in jail (or […]
by Tad Lindley The coming of the Lord Jesus Christ is the center point of human history. Somewhere between 4 and 2 BC, a virgin was found with child (Isaiah 7:14). Galatians says, when the […]
by Tad Lindley Warning: Do not read this article unless you have someone nearby who can give you immediate emotional support. This may be worse than the terrible sense of deception you experienced when you […]
by Tad Lindley My grandmother used to have a play on words that went like this: “Seven days without prayer makes one weak.” As someone who prays every day, I feel like maybe it should […]
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