In 2011, I wrote a post called 33 things to give up for Lent. A bunch of people read it. Eventually, I wrote a devotional for the season of Lent and called it Lent for Non-Lent People: 33 Things to Give up for Lent and Other Readings. During the last decade, a few thousand people […]

Rich Dixon on keeping track +++ I don’t think Jesus thinks much about numbers. “How do you define success?” We asked that question as we planned, but we were tackling something bigger than we could even imagine. We avoided stating a clear definition of success partly because we couldn’t think big enough. Our vision of […]

I am not a positive person. At least I don’t think of myself that way. I’m more pragmatic. Things happen. We respond. And always looking on the bright side when you are seeing people in hard times can be really annoying. So having to spend a week being positive, more accurately, testing positive, feels counter […]

God. We have become catastrophic people. Each night the news opens with “late-breaking” headlines.Each morning our social media offers us warnings and predictions.Each conversation begins with, “Did you hear?” We are fearful and outraged.We are anxious and numb.We are overwhelmed and, I confess, underestimate what your presence might mean to us. When we read the […]