In the past ten days, I have made two all-day moving trips to the Chicago area. The first was to move my mom from one care facility to another. My sisters and I trimmed down the stuff mom has in her room. In each move over the past four years, her belongings have diminished in […]

I’m working on a new ebook. It’s a collection of starting points for studying the Bible. We’re encouraged to read the Bible, to just start reading. But we don’t know how to start. So I want to offer some specific suggestions. Like this:  Biography We know the stories of the famous people in the Bible: […]

This is the second part of the funeral message from Monday. “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned […]

I spoke at a funeral Monday morning. This is the beginning of the story I told: A man named Luke gathered stories about Jesus. He wrote, Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” […]

First published January 25, 2011 Am I living a life I’d want someone to copy? Why not? Those two sentences found their way into my journal over the weekend, as I was thinking about a presentation I’ve got coming up. I’m going to talk about being and making disciples. (That subject has shown up as […]