300 words a day

In between the man who couldn’t hear and the man who couldn’t see, Jesus taught for three days and then fed 4000 people. In between, a group of Pharisees came asking for proof that God was authorizing all this. Jesus refused. In between, Jesus warned his followers to not become like the Pharisees and Herod, […]

The other day, one of my grad students reported on a retreat he had taken. Away from interruptions and schedules, he read through the Gospel of Mark. He suggested that we miss the big picture when we are reading a few words, a few sentences at a time. That’s the risk of writing 300 words […]

Rich Dixon is learning about letting go. A little. +++ Have you been frustrated when someone doesn’t accept the rationale of your argument? Of course you have. We’ve all had that experience. We lay out the facts in clear, concise order, and the other person refuses to recognize what we perceive as obvious truth. We […]

I have a confession. I’m not good at begging God for healing. I’m sure that it made me a poor chaplain in the eyes of some people. Like the one time when a patient’s daughter told me to pray. I said I had been. She told me the kind of praying I needed to do. […]

While Jesus was warning the disciples about bad teaching, the disciples were worried about their next meal. Sometime after they sailed away from the Pharisees, someone noticed that in the rush to leave, no one brought any food. There was one loaf of bread on the boat. It became a concern for the disciples. They […]