Having conversations with Nehemiah is risky. I had just finished writing about daily prayer. I went up to take a shower. And as I was turning the water on, I said, out loud, “Wait a minute. Is praying all you did for four months?” I’m pretty sure Nancy didn’t hear me. But Nehemiah did. He […]

God. We are on the edge of a time that we don’t understand. That is always true, of course, because we are always on the edge of the future and we are poor acknowledgers that our lives are limited. But this week, there were missiles in the Middle East and gunshots at our neighborhood Kroger. […]

(Continued from yesterday) Nehemiah spoke first. “Daniel looked at those warnings and promises from Moses and Solomon. He read Jeremiah’s comment about a seventy-year exile and looked at the calendar. He did the math from his own trip into exile in 604 and realized that the seventy years could be completed in four or five […]

(Continued from Tuesday) “You see how Daniel and I both refer to Moses in our prayer? We were both looking at what Moses said centuries before. We were both aware of what Solomon had prayed at the dedication of the temple. “Both Moses and Solomon warned about what would happen when our people turned from […]

Last time, we hung up a sign. Aside from our sign and the connection to Project Rescue’s Home of HOPE, all we had was a general idea about doing a 500-mile Colorado bike ride. I don’t think we expected anyone to accept our invitation to join us. I secretly hoped they wouldn’t – because we […]