A prayer for Palm Sunday 2023

God. This week your people were murdered. They were just being children, or filling in or cleaning up or leading.They were just living in a victimized country in Europe.They were being people. This week your people lost homes and lost lives in storms.This week your people, through natural causes and traumatic actions, left this life. […]

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Clearly teaching what matters.

Over the next few days, I’d like to point out several things from the story of the last week of Jesus, drawing on all four of the Gospels. I’ll try to give enough detail to be helpful. But I’d also suggest that reading these sections this week will be helpful. Matthew, starting in chapter 21. Mark […]

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Ongoing conversation with God.

As I wrote on Tuesday, over the next few days, I’d like to point out several things from the story of the last week of Jesus, drawing on all four of the Gospels. I’ll try to give enough detail to be helpful. But I’d also suggest that reading these sections this week will be helpful. […]

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Rolling Fork

Note from Rich Dixon: This event is a flash-forward due to last week’s storm that devastated the community of Rolling Fork, Mississippi. + + + End of Week 7: I cranked out of Greenville, Mississippi on a cold, windy morning with a route and Becky’s promise to figure out our destination. I headed south into […]

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Just a few days, maybe.

A few years ago, I worked on an exercise where you ask yourself, “What would I do if I only had a week left to live?” You then answer that for a month, a year, five years, and a life. It was a good exercise. I learned some things about what I thought was important. […]

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