August 2011 – Page 5 – 300 words a day

Reflections on love. and Jesus.

Jesus was summarizing simply the law. “Love God,” he said. “Love your neighbor.” “Who do we have to love?” was the follow up. “Who counts as my neighbor?” That’s the story of the good Samaritan. If you walk by someone in serious trouble, and you can help, and you don’t on account of being too focused […]

What counts as ministry?

A couple times a year, people from our church take their tools and work on construction projects. In the fall, they take a weekend and go work on a church or a city mission. In the spring they take a week and go build a house in Kentucky. By build a house I mean they […]

Thinking about hypocrisy at the start of the week.

If God can make a dumb donkey walk into an ark, SURELY he can bring some stupid humans into the church! Lord bring them in to hear your Word. That was a tweet yesterday morning. The writer, perhaps, forgot that some of the “stupid humans” he is talking about might be on twitter. They might […]