A prayer for the third Sunday after the Epiphany

God. We know that we are not like each other. We look different, we do different things, we feel different feelings. We confess that often, we wish you had made us like someone else.We confess that often, we wish you had made other people like us.And we acknowledge that we just wish that people liked […]

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Sometimes it’s pie.

Picking up from yesterday. We are given messages to share with each other, messages that are given from God, through the Holy Spirit. Those moments, those messages, those brief glimpse of some special power that one follower of Jesus offers to another, those are miracles. If a miracle means “God acting in supernatural ways in […]

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What might count?

I’m going back to Tuesday, when I was talking about Jesus and wine. We are waiting for Jesus to do the same kind of miracle. Our wine is all gone. Our family is sick. We are confused. People aren’t responding to our cries for help. We are hoping for a miracle and we’re not seeing […]

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Worried?

Rich Dixon invites us into a challenging season. +++ The FREEDOM TOUR has encountered an obstacle. I’ve spent the last few days fussing about it. Time for true confessions. We discovered late last week that local governments won’t allow us to use the beautiful Fort Collins bike trails for our Freedom Tour Classic. Since all […]

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Sometimes we need help.

Sometimes the wine runs out. The story isn’t going to end there, of course. We know where the Jesus-wedding-wine story goes. But the non-fatal story that you are in the middle of right now is going to keep going, too. The embarrassment you are afraid of isn’t all there is. Because you are no more […]

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