January 2011 – 300 words a day

The end of January.

Are you ready for 2012? I am. I mean, I had great ideas for 2011. I started the year with 99 goals for the year. Some of them were just a “to-do” list. Some of them were in the “remember to be nice” kind of category. A couple of them were huge. Now January is […]

by Jon Swanson

Safe terror.

When I was working on my goals for the year, my 99 goals, here’s one thing I wrote: Make 300 words a primary resource for people wanting to learn safely about the terrors of following Jesus. When I look at that goal now, I have no idea what I was thinking when I wrote it. […]

by Jon Swanson

Moved with compassion.

Where was I? Oh, right. I was telling you how I write and think about you. Sometimes anyway. I ended by suggesting that God thinks about you and what might help you. If you are like me, you read that and thought, “Sure. A nice idea. But I bet God’s usually pretty annoyed with me.” […]

by Jon Swanson

You.

I write these essays five nights a week. You read them occasionally. Sometimes I’m not thinking about you as I write. I’m thinking about me. I’m looking into a mirror and describing what I see. The mirror is glass, sometimes, or the Bible. But I’m not even thinking about you. But often, I am thinking […]

by Jon Swanson

Being a model.

Am I living a life I’d want someone to copy? Why not? Those two sentences found their way into my journal over the weekend, as I was thinking about a presentation I’ve got coming up. I’m going to talk about being and making disciples. (That subject has shown up as my one word and in […]