This post is a little long. And a little different. Rich needs eyes on a video. I want to help. Here’s our interview. The video is near the end. It’s followed by a chance to get a couple books. Thanks for your help. 1. How does watching a video give people water?  Invacare/TopEnd sponsors the […]

(This is a guest post from my friend Rich Dixon.) What do you do when a friend’s floundering? I know … you listen, except sometimes you can’t. You pray, and you want desperately to believe it helps, but it feels distant and invisible and you want something here-and-now. You ask if there’s anything you can […]

I’m reading The Contemplative Pastor. Again. (I wrote about it before.) Eugene Peterson says that pastors ought to be less concerned with running the church and more concerned with “the cure of souls.” He says that one of the things that messes us up, pastors that is, is that we start looking at situations as […]

(Video version: The risk of focusing on days) The three friends were living comfortably in Jerusalem. It was a good day. They got captured by Nebuchadnezzar and hauled off to Babylon. It was a bad day. They were selected for an executive leadership training program that was limited to really really bright people. It was […]