King Jesus. We aren’t used to calling you that. We’ve got other names for you,usually nice, usually kind, usually respectful. But we’re more likely to think of you as the one who saves us than as the one who can tell us what to do. We’re more likely to know your friendship than your authority. […]

Sometimes, when I pray next to a hospital bed, I start laughing. Usually, inside my head. Sometimes it creeps into my voice, though, when I know that the other people in the room understand. Because I often say something like, “God, I ask that you will strengthen her heart and give peace to her mind […]

“Half-hearted praise is no praise at all.” That’s what the worship leader said. He was trying to get us to sing louder, I think, or more enthusiastically. He wanted us to be whole-hearted, all in. “Come on, church.” I’ve stood where he stands. I may even have offered that call. But I can’t anymore. It […]

Rich Dixon has another tough question. +++ FREEDOM TOUR 2016 – turns out, when you invite people to get real, sometimes it happens. The topic was Freedom. We read a story of healing including this line: Then he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.” We talked about wounds, mostly the deeper, […]

More of Hannah’s story that we started yesterday. +++ The tent of meeting was a big enclosure. You could stand by the entrance and see the altar, and see the Holy of Holies, a tent that represented the presence of God. Hannah stood near the entrance and in her anguish, she prayed. All the pain, […]