I have a bunch of topics for this post. There is a list. You may see some of them. But as I was going through a pile of notes today, I found a to-do list with “We need campfires” written haphazardly on the page. I wrote it while in the middle of a conversation with […]

We talk about prayer as conversations with God. Sometimes we wish that we could hear both sides of the conversation, instead of just our own. One way that we can understand these conversations a little better is to read the accounts of others. There are a few of these conversations in the Old Testament. And, […]

Paul is writing to his apprentice. It’s likely his last letter, his address at Timothy’s commencement. It’s the speech where every instruction matters, every emotion is raw. Paul’s words are what no self-respecting American commencement speaker would say. “What you heard from me,” Paul tells Timothy, “keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith […]

We were finishing talking about 1 Corinthians. It was the end of an eight-month study with a group of men. We were talking about making a difference by expressing love in life-threatening ways. We were talking about the Ebola outbreak in western Africa. Ebola is a scary disease. No known cure. Spreads crazy fast (every […]

This is part two of a conversation about reading the Bible that we started yesterday. Second, schedule the conversation. Recently, I started setting the chair time on my calendar for 5:45. I get up at 5:30, and the coffee maker runs at 5:17, so it’s ready when the alarm goes off. And I often look […]