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Friday, January 02, 2026

What the Bible Says About the Future of Your Body (1)

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The notion that human beings are really just souls who temporarily have bodies is something I sometimes hear. But it flies in the face of th...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

Mary the Mother of Jesus (2)

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The last post introduced the subject of this occasional series. From this point on, then, when I speak of Mary, I mean the mother of Jesus. ...
Saturday, December 20, 2025

Mary the Mother of Jesus (1)

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Many years ago I was struggling to learn how to preach. It was around then that the elders of my home church in Altus, Oklahoma, invited me ...
Friday, December 19, 2025

The New Testament Letters of Peter and the Challenge of Biblical Interpretation

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Ancient manuscript containing parts of 1 Peter 2 This morning, a bit of musing. This post takes up the question of the relationship between ...
Friday, December 12, 2025

A Few Notes on Federalist 21 by A. Hamilton

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The theme of Federalist 21 is reasons why the Articles of Confederation should be replaced as the written constitution for the new United S...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

John H. Walton at Lubbock Christian University

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Back on September 23rd of this year, I traveled down to Lubbock with my good friend and my preacher, Bret McCasland . We enjoyed a nice dinn...
Saturday, November 29, 2025

The Book of Isaiah: A Working Outline

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These days I'm thinking about the Book of Isaiah. Most of this relates to a series of lessons I'm preparing to teach at church. It...
Saturday, November 22, 2025

Popular Sports in America during the 1920s

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I put this post together for my HIST 1302 course. It explains how in the 1920s the United States started becoming more and more the sports-c...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Good Quotes for Introducing the Parables of Jesus

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Several months ago, I was asked to teach a Bible class at the Polk Street United Methodist Church here in Amarillo. The class wanted me to i...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Peggy Noonan's Takedown of Kamala's New Book

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Last weekend's Wall Street Journal contains the regular column by Peggy Noonan , one of my favorite opinion writers. Her most recent is...
Friday, October 03, 2025

The Catch-22 of Calvinism

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Episcopal scholar Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr., has done a good job expressing the historic catch-22 of the Calvinist understanding of salvatio...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

One Fine, Lazy Summer Nearly Gone

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It's August 10, 2025. Public schools and Amarillo College will begin a new year within days. Educators are reporting earlier than stude...
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Frank Bellizzi
I am a Christian, a son and a brother, a husband and father, an elder in the Body of Christ, an American historian, a Bible student, a college instructor, and a music fan. I also like movies, and would like eventually to become a real film buff. My ultimate professional goal is to win the World Series as the lead-off batter and 2nd baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals.
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