On some Monday mornings, it’s challenging to know what following Jesus looks like. Particularly if we haven’t had enough coffee, or the weekend was particularly rough, or we woke up and realized that it’s Fall. I’m not sure that I am going to help that at all. I was thinking about models of following God […]

1 Corinthians is about 9600 words long. That would give us 32 posts at 300 words a day. I love that idea. I wouldn’t have to come up with anything new. But as we read a little bit each day, as we took six weeks to read the whole letter at five days a week, […]

I’ve been talking about and writing about Nehemiah (the book) and Nehemiah (the person) for more than a year. As the conversations and posts and studies and chapters have happened, there is now a book draft. (You can read bits at greatwork.pressbooks.com). But I have been struggling with an important question: “What is this book […]

(first published January 2, 2013) New Year’s Eve we were watching “Live from Lincoln Center.” Hope was recovering from losing four wisdom teeth that morning. Nancy was reading, I was riding the stationary bike I borrowed from friends a year ago. In short, we were exercising our bodies, our minds, and our patience with pain. I looked at the […]

“I have to get back to a routine.” Nancy has heard me say that many times in the last month. The summer months have a different feel to them, even though neither of us works in education any more. And now that Hope has graduated from college, we don’t have that reminder in our house. […]