November 2011 – Page 3 – 300 words a day

maybe not about me.

I’m writing about a creed, a statement of belief. I have a post about “Jesus Christ, his only-begotten son.” I’ll put it up in a couple days. When I wrote that post on Friday, I was happy with it from a theology perspective, but it sounds like theology. So I’ve been thinking about it through all weekend. […]

by Jon Swanson

Vets showed up every day.

It’s simple to become a veteran. You either enlist or are drafted into the military. You survive. You get out of the military. You are automatically a vet. No application process. I’m not saying that it is easy, mind you, only that it is simple. In between the entering and the exiting is the hard […]

by Jon Swanson

What did the man do?

(This was first posted March 27, 2009) “I’ll follow you, Jesus” That’s what the teacher of the law said. “Wherever you go, I’ll follow you.” Jesus doesn’t really answer him. I mean, he tells the man that he doesn’t have a home, that he doesn’t have a place to lay his head, that he doesn’t […]

by Jon Swanson

Here comes Jesus.

“I have a hard time with Jesus.” One of my friends said that awhile back. I understood. To say “I believe in God” leaves space in our lives. To believe in Jesus Christ, as the creed we are looking at says, is a much bigger step. Options are narrowed, ambiguity starts to slip away. Particularly […]

by Jon Swanson

Maker of…wait.

“Good morning. Let’s read together this affirmation of our faith. “I believe in God the Father almighty. and in Jesus Christ his only-begotten son” If you are an Apostles Creed person, you were slowly repeating, “I believe in God the Father almighty” and in your head you said, “maker of heaven and earth.” Unless you […]