September 2011 – Page 4 – 300 words a day

Going to Kansas

Although I talk all the time, I’m not a conference speaker. I don’t fit well with church events and not many non-church events invite pastors to the platform. However, if you’ve been around here during the last year, you know that I’ve had the opportunity to speak at a couple of conferences. Last October, I […]

by Jon Swanson

One (fictional) view of prayer

(First published April 3, 2011. And it’s more than 300 words.) BEHIND THE SCENES EPISODE DCLXVI “A prayer” HOST: Good evening. I’m Noah Weigh. Welcome to this episode of ‘Behind the Scenes,’ the show where we take you … behind the scenes. Tonight, a very rare opportunity. We get to see what happens to a […]

by Jon Swanson

Waiting is hard. Really.

(first published October 19, 2010) I wrote to a friend yesterday. I said, “Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.” It wasn’t very original. It was the end of a prayer that David wrote (Psalm 27). But it’s what came across my desk yesterday and I passed it […]

by Jon Swanson

Jeremiah, the GodCo consultant.

I was browsing Jeremiah for my e-course yesterday. I got hooked. Jeremiah was a prophet in Israel. He talked for about forty years, centered on 600 BC. He was getting in trouble for repeating what God told him. One time, it went like this: Jeremiah worked for GodCo. He was a consultant to JudahCo, a […]

by Jon Swanson

Hey Scott. Here’s what we can do for kids in Somalia.

My friend Scott and I were sitting in a meeting. He said that the needs of kids in Somalia were weighing on his heart. I walked over to him at the break: “So Scott, what are we going to do about Somalia?” It’s a hard question, isn’t it? Figuring out what to do in response […]