When people ask if I have exciting plans for the weekend, I say, “I’m working.” On Mondays, if people ask if I had a good weekend, I say, “I was working.” Because almost every Sunday for the last seven years I’ve been working at the hospital. Before that, for the previous fifteen years, I’d worked […]

God. Half my friends are mad at half my friends who are mad at them.And you and I both know that mad isn’t the right word. But frustrated. And concerned and critical and annoyed. They have been getting that way for months. They’ve been listening to news reports and opinions. They’ve been reducing each other […]

Jesus now talks about influence. He talks about salt and light. Salt seasons. It preserves. It melts ice. It helps make homemade ice cream. It corrodes paint. It makes water undrinkable. Attached to your arm, it makes the same water support life. It is simple. It is natural. It is found in lots of locations, […]

Jesus is clear, though, right from the beginning paragraphs of this sermon, that the new routine will hurt. Not the pain of working muscles that haven’t been used for a while, though that is certainly true. These sentences are more like the warnings of side effects we hear during every medicine commercial. At the time […]

Rich Dixon is back on the road. +++ Perhaps you remember last spring’s fast-forward from Greenville to Rolling Fork due to devastating storms. After an unconventional night in Rolling Fork Hospital, we met the next morning with a great group of kids at a high school assembly. We all laughed as football and volleyball players […]