a parable about following.

When our staff meets, I start with a question. Often I don’t know the answer myself. My goal is to help us learn what we might not in our regular conversations. Last week in our staff meeting I said, “We all know about our high school interns. We give them busy work, but we also help […]

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A few sick people.

Jesus went to synagogue Saturday morning. He started teaching. Everyone started whispering. “He must have plagiarized that,” they said. “I know the rumors about miracles, but really? Him?” they said. “He’s a carpenter, not a scholar,” they said. “We know his family and they aren’t nothing,” they said. “Who does he think he is,” they […]

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changing me.

We were singing about the Bible. Ancient words, ever true Changing me, changing you I looked across the room. I saw someone signing the song to her husband in his wheelchair. He had a stroke a few years back. He was in nursing care for a long time, but finally was able to move home […]

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Psalm 27

The reading over at 7×7 today is Psalm 27. It’s a poem written by David. I started to think about the difference between reading story, which is what we’ve been doing in the Gospel of Mark and reading poetry. Poetry reads slower. It reads deeper. You can’t, with integrity, skim a poem the way you […]

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Saturday Reflection: on living the Bible

A couple years ago, Ed Dobson decided to spend a year living like Jesus (The Year of Living like Jesus). He had heard A.J. Jacobs talking about his book, The Year of Living Biblically. Jacobs, who was agnostic and Jewish, needed a new book idea after having read through the Encyclopedia Britannica, and decided to […]

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