Hand-crafted.

The river bed was lined with rocks. The river didn’t run through a national park. The banks were open to the public. So the rocks were free anyone willing to pick them up and carry them away. To get to the footbridge, you had to walk between and over piles of rocks that someone had […]

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A person of unexpected peace.

Jesus had an advance team. He sent a couple people to villages and towns he was going to visit. They would go to the town, stop at a house, say, “Peace to this house.” In some houses, no one would respond to this statement. And they would move on. But in some houses, there was […]

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Applying “next sentence” thinking.

I talked yesterday about “next sentence” thinking. But what does it look like to think about what comes next for for every illustration, for every event, for every lesson, for everything that I know captures attention? Let me invite you into an internal conversations. I’m struggling with next sentence question myself after my trip to Nepal. […]

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The next sentence

Years ago I wrote about the next sentence.  I’ll link to the posts below. But here’s the core of the idea: “For every illustration, for every event, for every lesson, for everything that I know captures attention, I need to think about what comes next.” What comes after the illustration, the event, the training, the party, […]

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Why He died

Sometimes when I think about Jesus dying on the cross, I get overwhelmed. What did I do to deserve that great sacrifice? Why could such a horrible thing happen to such a wonderful person? For the last two years, my family and I have been part of an Anglican church. We remember Jesus’ death on […]

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