The text for Sunday was a familiar one for me. Ten men with a skin disease that kept them separated from everyone but themselves called out to Jesus. “Have pity on us,” they said. Jesus didn’t touch them, didn’t talk with them, didn’t teach them, didn’t comfort them. He said, “Go show yourselves to the […]

A couple hours after I write this, I’m heading to the hospital. I’ll be walking the halls, talking to staff. I’ll be showing up in the ER about the same time as the person coming from the crash or the person fearing a stroke or the person terrified about the baby that stopped moving. I […]

God We feel forgotten. We know that we should remember that you are with us. We know that we should turn to you and be comforted by you when we are in trouble. We know that we feel abandoned by you. We are sure that it’s our fault, the abandonment, or your fault, the abandonment. […]

I’ve been having troubles remembering names recently. I’m working on refocusing. But I realized that you and I probably need the lessons from this post from a few years back. +++ Awhile back I talked about a story James Bryan Smith tells about Rich Mullins. He says that during one of his tours, Rich Mullins would spend […]