Daily observations about following Jesus
On Sunday night, ten disciples were gathered in a room. Okay, there may have been more than ten, but only ten of The Twelve were there. Judas was dead. Thomas simply wasn’t present. It was a gathering of uncertainty. The door was locked. The disciples had heard that Jesus was alive, but weren’t sure what […]
Read More…Sometimes one conversation changes the course of your life for good. You are heading one direction and someone pours counsel and direction and affirmation into you. Suddenly, you are heading another direction. That happened to me sometime during the spring of 1980. I say “sometime” because I can’t remember the conversation. I graduated from college in […]
Read More…Sometimes we promise more that our friends want to deliver. “Of course he’ll buy you supper.” “Of course we can help you move next Tuesday.” “Of course he likes t-shirts with funny sayings.” “Of course he pays the temple tax.” The temple tax? Yes. Everyone over 20 in Israel was counted. When they were counted, […]
Read More…Some guys were sitting around one evening, wondering what to do. They’d been part of a travelling band for a couple years, away from home for long stretches. Recently everything changed. The leader quit traveling with them. And so they were sitting around, sort of waiting for their leader to show up again. Though there […]
Read More…Peter and John stood in front of the leaders of their tribe. Imagine a random Catholic talking to the Pope and cardinals, an ordinary citizen in front of the Supreme Court or the President’s cabinet, a student in front of the university president and faculty, you in front of the people you grew up being […]
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