God. I need to find some words, for today, that we can tell you and ask you about.  What’s interesting to me is that when David, or whoever, talks about your law, your directions, your commands, the images are delightful. Perfect, refreshing, radiant, pure.  Those aren’t the words that come to mind when we think […]

Before I finish a story from Tuesday, a quick note. I mentioned that Elijah was the only person who hadn’t died between Abraham and Paul. And someone asked about Enoch who, according to Genesis 5, “walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.” But Enoch lived, and disappeared, before Abraham. […]

More from Rich Dixon: +++ Last time I left you with two questions. Who’s them…and us? Who’s handicapped…and able-bodied? I believe these questions cut much deeper than physical impairments. I obviously face a unique set of physical challenges. But words have incredible power to shape our attitudes. Description becomes perception, and perception becomes reality. Handicapped, […]

Picking up from yesterday +++ In the course of this story, Abraham dies. So does Sarah. So does Isaac, and Jacob, and generation after generation. From Abraham to Paul, the only people who didn’t die were Elijah and … nobody. The only people who died and came back to life are… Jesus. The rest of […]

When I was a kid, we’d read John 3:16 this way. “God so loved Jon that he gave his only begotten son that if Jon believed in him, Jon would not perish but have eternal life.” It was a way of personalizing the immensity of God’s love for each of us. But there was a […]