Put it on your calendar. 

That’s what I suggested to a friend about his desire to spend time reading the Bible. That’s because I decided to try it myself. I’ve talked before about my morning coffee with God. It’s a good time, not out of obligation but necessity. I need to look at the Bible in the morning. But I […]

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Mark and Rachel and hot water.

Father God, Mark is having surgery today. You and I both know it’s cancer. And it’s big. And you know that the surgeon said that it looks pretty contained, and you know that what I’d love is for it to disappear. The whole ice cream cone with a softball for the top. Just gone. And […]

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25% of the time

What if you used to get angry at everything other people said. I mean, you got into arguments all the time. If someone held a stopwatch on you, the time from initiation of conversation to your explosion was thirty seconds or less. When James says the tongue is “A restless evil, full of deadly poison,” […]

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The man sitting next to me, writing.

I sat in the second row at the seminar, third seat from the center aisle. I never sit that close, but I had decided that I wanted to concentrate, to focus on learning. There was a man in the first seat by the center aisle. He leaned over, looked at my nametag, and misread the […]

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You get to.

First published April 25, 2009 Rest. You get to do that. Pray. You get to do that. Trust. You get to do that. Sleep. You get to do that. Laugh. You get to do that. Weep. You get to do that. Ask. You get to do that. Love. You get to do that. Repent. You […]

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