Hope.

Hope is the best way to live and breathe. Hope is also the name of Jon and Nancy’s daughter, but you knew that already. (And there’s a great story behind her name.) Hope is big in the Bible. Something close to 189 mentions of the word turned up when I did a search. The strongest […]

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The “Great Work” tour.

Sunday morning we’ll be in northern Wisconsin, talking about Nehemiah. It’s the only public event on my first “Great Work” book tour. That’s what we’re calling it just for fun. I will be standing in a church congregation my grandfather walked away from seventy years ago. My grandfather was fully human, though I never thought […]

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walk.in.love.

I abandoned the three words idea several years ago. It was too hard. I got too confused. So why am I offering three words this year? Because these aren’t three words. They are a way of life. walk. in. love. The phrase shows up in a letter Paul wrote to a group of people he loved […]

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