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God- A chosen people. That’s what Peter calls your people. That’s what Peter calls us. A chosen people. A royal priesthood. A holy nation.God’s special possession. The people of God. As we come to you, that’s who we are. But here’s the thing. As we come to you, we feel adrift. Inadequate. Neglected.If you see […]

Heather and I recently switched churches. We loved the church we left, but we needed some spiritual refreshment. We spent many months in prayer and in discussion about whether we should stay or go. We left on good terms – and even got the blessing of the pastors of the church we were leaving. And […]

A few months ago, we bought a new shower curtain. We had changed the color of the bathroom, and seafoam green didn’t fit anymore. We found the new one at Walmart. It came with new hooks for the curtain and the liner, metal ones, bent into a “s” shape. I installed them and cleaned and […]

Rich Dixon is thinking about new ways to think: +++ I’m thinking about this short parable. “Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.” […]

You may have heard the formula: “Sometimes God says ‘Yes’, sometimes ‘no’, sometimes ‘wait.” It’s a way to talk about our sense that God doesn’t respond to prayer in the ways we want. As we’re reading through Mark, we find stories where Jesus says none of those things. He asks a question. He introduces a […]