How is the Bible Organized? Part I The Tanakh
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 […]
by Tad Lindley It couldn’t have happened around here, because we put people in caskets and lock the casket shut when we bury them, but things were different in ancient Israel. People’s bodies were wrapped […]
by Tad Lindley After the second time I got out of treatment I was really trying to do right, and so I went to a church that had a reputation for being a “born again” […]
by Tad Lindley On November 8, 2022, one of the most critical elections in human history will take place. How will you vote? Will you vote based on the candidate’s skin color? Will it be […]
by Tad Lindley Maybe you saw the meme on Facebook. It had a drawing of the ark, and the words, FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE DROWNED EVERYONE IN IT. The intent of […]
by Tad Lindley By the time you are reading this, we will already have our 2022 Permanent Fund Dividend. Some folks might get angry at me for writing about giving some of their dividend. Understand […]
by Tad Lindley My wife has never kicked me out of the house, and yet I know it happens to other husbands. Recently I saw in the Bible that a guy had gotten kicked out […]
by Tad Lindley Picture this entirely imaginary scene, the Alaska State Troopers knock on the door and are invited into the residence whereupon they see a small, blue berry-picking bucket on the kitchen table and […]
by Tad Lindley Have you ever been hurt by someone until it is hard to sleep at night without thinking about them? They ripped you off, or lied about you. Maybe they bullied you or […]
by Tad Lindley Let me recap the historical setting in case you are unfamiliar with it. At least several thousand years ago there was a godly man named Job who lived in the land of […]
by Tad Lindley Did you know that Jesus was tempted to use painkillers? No, nobody came up to him with a sheet of tinfoil, a lighter, a hit of Oxycontin, and a ballpoint pen casing, […]
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 When the ocean liner Titanic left Queenstown, Ireland, she had about 2,224 souls aboard. Some were crew members (176 crew men did nothing, but keep shoveling coal 24 hours a day to […]
by Tad Lindley But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman… (Galatians 4:4) On my dad’s side I inherited a receding hairline, my last name, […]
by Tad Lindley Oftentimes for clarity, when mentioning a married woman I hear people refer to her by both her married name and her maiden name. It works like this: say there is more than […]
by Tad Lindley I saw smoke coming from the stovepipe on my friend’s qasgiq, so I waited until I thought it might be ready and dropped in unannounced. You see, nobody calls me for a steam […]
by Tad Lindley All these years I never noticed Romans 12:12. It starts with the words, Rejoicing in hope… I’ve always just skated right by and thought, “Yeah, I’m down with that, ‘rejoicing’ is a […]
by Tad Lindley The Blue Slip Explained Many of us in Bethel live in houses with a water tank and a sewer tank. At my house, every two weeks the sewer truck comes and pumps […]
by Tad Lindley I love my wife’s family. They have been one of the great blessings in my life. So when I hear people make mother-in-law jokes or speak disparagingly about their in-laws I always feel […]
by Tad Lindley Often times 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 […]
by Tad Lindley By the time we got married, my father-in-law’s fish camp was about a half mile above Nick O. Nick, just past Emma Evon’s. The ground there had eroded so bad at Nick […]
by Tad Lindley Last week we left Joseph (still undercover and speaking through an interpreter) and his 11 brothers having a feast. If you have not read last week’s column, please go back and read […]
by Tad Lindley I’ve always preached Joseph as being in full command of his forgiveness from the moment the money changed hands and he left Israel for the slave markets of Cairo, but recently I […]
by Tad Lindley Living room or dying room? I don’t have a television in my home. I do not watch movies on my computer’s DVD player. I have never played an X-box. I have seen […]
by Tad Lindley If you have an average American living room in your house, it’s time to remodel. I’m talking about a living room that has a couch and some chairs and perhaps other furniture. […]
by Tad Lindley She had an East Coast accent. The crowd of weary travelers was waiting for a bus to take us to a hotel. Our flight had been rerouted to St. Louis and all […]
by Tad Lindley The man’s name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. The woman was intelligent and beautiful, but the man, a Calebite, was a hard man and an evildoer. (1 Samuel 25:3 […]
by Tad Lindley We were in California and the traffic was ridiculous, so we arrived late to the service. Because we were late, we had to sit towards the back. The preaching was good, and […]
by Tad Lindley Perhaps you have seen the following sign in a restaurant or grocery somewhere in your travels: No Shirt. No Shoes. No Service. No exceptions! It makes it hard for folks on a […]
by Tad Lindley When I was a teenager I was at a friend’s home and they had a calendar from the church that they attended. It had a wide variety of special festivals and church […]
by Tad Lindley Did you ever have one of those commercial fishing periods where it was so bad that it wasn’t worth waiting in line to sell the fish, so you took them home or […]
by Tad Lindley Are you brushing your teeth enough? According to online recommendations from the American Dental Association, we should all be brushing our teeth twice a day for two minutes per brushing. That’s a […]
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