300 words a day

I hear people say, “God’s got a plan” and sometimes I say, “That’s great. But I don’t know what it is. And in the meantime, this waiting is scary.” And then they say, “But you know what the Bible says.” And then they quote some version of Jeremiah 29:11: “For I know the plans I have […]

Rich Dixon helps us see the edges of the crowd. +++ For the past few months, I’ve been doing two online classes – guided by Tim Mackie from the Bible Project – covering the first seven chapters of Matthew’s gospel. On one level, we encountered familiar stories and verses even non-Christians know something about. In another […]

Dear friend with many years of life experience: Paul wrote to a church he loved deeply and was deeply concerned about. He sent Timothy to check on them. And he learned that they were doing great. He affirmed that they knew how to love each other, “having been taught by God to love one another.” Then […]

God. There are so many words. And we aren’t sure which ones to trust. We listen uncritically to the words that support what we believe, unwilling to consider the motives behind them. We read stories that tug at our hearts, unaware that they are created by human and machine to play our hearts. We aren’t […]