300 words a day

“But I’m not a two-year-old,” we say. “And besides, comparing people to God isn’t appropriate anyway.” Really? Are you sure? Because that’s exactly what Jesus does to help us understand how God listens to us. He’s talking to the crowd on the hillside. He’s been talking to everyone, but now he speaks directly to the […]

We all have stories about God not answering our prayer. We asked for help on the test. We failed. We asked for healing for the child. She died. We asked “Why?” We didn’t hear anything. Given our experience, many of us read these words that Jesus said and we cringe: “Ask and it will be […]

Rich Dixon is helping us see that words matter. +++ Have you ever felt guilty? I know, it’s a silly question. At some point, we’ve all felt guilty about something. Different question – have you ever felt shame? Have you ever thought about the difference? A couple of weeks ago our pastor, Aaron Hanson, explained […]

As much as we work to understand and explain what Jesus said, we need to be honest: sometimes he wasn’t clear. At times his obfuscation, his ambiguity was purposeful. He even says that he is speaking obscurely at times. However, in the middle of a fairly clear sermon, when he seems to be trying to […]

We are too serious. Okay, so maybe some of us laugh sometimes. And some of us laugh all the time. And some of us frown most of the time. But most of the time most people have some amount of laughter. Until we pick up the Bible, that is. Then we get serious. Too serious. […]