You may not read my other newsletter on Finding Words in Hard Times. The other week I wrote this: I’ve made a change in the way I end some of the emails I send. I used to end with just my name. Slowly, I started to write “peace”. Because I thought we needed it. (A couple of my […]

I hear people say, “God’s got a plan” and sometimes I say, “That’s great. But I don’t know what it is. And in the meantime, this waiting is scary.” And then they say, “But you know what the Bible says.” And then they quote some version of Jeremiah 29:11: “For I know the plans I have […]

Rich Dixon helps us see the edges of the crowd. +++ For the past few months, I’ve been doing two online classes – guided by Tim Mackie from the Bible Project – covering the first seven chapters of Matthew’s gospel. On one level, we encountered familiar stories and verses even non-Christians know something about. In another […]

Dear friend with many years of life experience: Paul wrote to a church he loved deeply and was deeply concerned about. He sent Timothy to check on them. And he learned that they were doing great. He affirmed that they knew how to love each other, “having been taught by God to love one another.” Then […]