June 2009 – Page 3 – 300 words a day

Four miles of water

It’s about six miles from Bethsaida to Gennesaret. Six miles isn’t much of a walk at all, not for people who walk all the time. And when you are meeting someone in between, four miles of walking is something even I could do. If it’s been raining, of course, it could be a little harder. […]

by Jon Swanson

20 minutes

This week a group of guys started a ten-week study of the book of Colossians. After an overview, we read the book. All four chapters. Out loud. We took turns. It took us less that 20 minutes. A whole book of the Bible read out loud in less than 20 minutes. We talked about it, […]

by Jon Swanson

Difficult sorting

Some get it. Some do not. The hardest part about parables is that some people don’t understand. Some people think they are nice stories. Some people think they are fun to hear, that they make the teaching parts interesting. But if you listen closely to the stories that Jesus was telling, it is clear that […]

by Jon Swanson

Jakov and the pearl

Jakov was a man with a passion. He knew pearls. He had spent his whole life looking at pearls, looking for pearls. He could tell where they came from. He could tell what they were worth. Jakov knew what it was like to walk away from a deal because the seller wasn’t being honest. He […]

by Jon Swanson

How much do you want it?

The kingdom of God is about desire. That’s what Jesus said. Well, not in those words, exactly. Instead, he told a couple stories about acting on desire. He said the kingdom of heaven is like a man who was walking through a field and found a box of treasure. Okay, maybe he wasn’t walking through, […]