(First posted July 11, 2009) Purpose is what we are about. Purpose is supposed to be core, supposed to be the thing at the very heart of what we are. Purpose is what we are living for. Purpose is what we would die for. Jesus starts talking about the rest of his life. He talks about how […]

(first published June 24, 2009) It’s a constant challenge. And I think that’s good. What is? Checking what we say against our hearts. It means, of course, that we have to take the blob our words form as they trail out of our mouths and scoop them up and put them on the table. A […]

(This post was first published July 9, 2009) The kingdom of God is about desire. That’s what Jesus said. Well, not in those words, exactly. Instead, he told a couple stories about acting on desire. He said the kingdom of heaven is like a man who was walking through a field and found a box of treasure. Okay, maybe […]

At the beginning of the year, I had 99 goals. One was to write what it means to be inductive, for me. You start writing. You don’t know the last line. You don’t know the next line, often, until is is left behind when your pen moves on across the page. You know, maybe, what […]