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If you were starting today to teach people to grow vegetables, what would you do? That’s not a complicated question, I don’t think. Planting vegetables involves preparing soil, planting seeds, watering, weeding, harvesting. But we get confused about the teaching part. What technology do we use? How many lessons? How much of a professional do […]

The people had been wandering for a generation. Actually, they felt like they were wandering. They were following a pillar of fire and a cloud, both showing the presence of God. But it felt like wandering. It felt like killing time. It felt like waiting for a generation to die off. Which was, of course, […]

God. We would love to be a holy nation. Not our political nation, exactly,since we come from many nations, many ethnicities. But like you asked Israel through Moses from the mountain at the beginning of their freedom. “If you will listen to me,” you said.“If you will keep my covenant,” you said.“Then you will be […]

Rich Dixon on the value of supporting each other. +++ In 2012, Becky and I did a 1000-mile handcycle trip around the perimeter of Florida. Today’s photo captures an episode from that adventure. I was invited to speak to a wonderful group of adults who were working hard to overcome developmental disabilities. I was supposed […]

On Wednesday, Jim Josephson, 39, spent 15 minutes reading the Facebook status updates and shared posts of friends. He then decided not to comment on any of them. In a candid statement published on his LinkedIn page, Josephson wrote about his experience: “It was rough for me,” he wrote. “I like conversation as much as […]