A prayer for the ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

God. We need your light to shine in our hearts. Like Paul said. We are hard pressed on every side. Like Paul said.  We are perplexed. Like Paul said. At times we do despair and think we’re crushed and feel abandoned. Unlike Paul said. Today, we proclaim what we don’t always feel, that you know […]

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Justice For Our Kids

Rich Dixon writes at this blog every Wednesday. It’s not Wednesday, but I asked him to talk to us a bit about the Front Range Freedom Tour project that Rich and Becky lead every year. And so he did. +++ What does justice for the kids at the Home of HOPE look like in Jesus’ […]

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Preparing for the work (part three)

Let’s take a look at the other four parts of Nehemiah’s plan. 2. A simple confidence that God was involved from the start. This may be the hardest truth for many of us. We don’t know whether God is talking to us. We aren’t sure whether an idea is from God or from our own […]

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Provision

Rich Dixon talks about trusting +++ Last time, some people joined FREEDOM TOUR 2013. We said we’d ride 500 miles from Cheyenne, Wyoming to the Colorado/New Mexico border at Raton Pass, but we had no detailed routes. We said we’d stay in churches, but we hadn’t contacted any churches.  We said we’d provide meals, but […]

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Preparing for the work (part two)

After Nehemiah talked about what he’d done, in addition to praying, for four months, I decided that it was time to share an essay I wrote about Nehemiah’s plan. I call it, “Nehemiah’s five-step plan to rebuild a destroyed city by asking a foreign king to give you all the supplies you need.” Or that’s […]

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