Rich Dixon is asking questions again. +++ One evening during the second FREEDOM TOUR, we talked about the notion of “being sent.” We began with this prompt: Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying,“Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”And I said, “Here am I. Send me!” (Isaiah 6:8) A while back I […]

In Mark 7, Jesus is responding to religious leaders who are criticizing his disciples for not living up to the teachings of the elders.  In this case, the disciples weren’t following a religious custom of washing their hands. At one point, he seems to say, You don’t care about what God says about how to […]

In the U.S., it’s Labor Day, one of our Federal holidays. In my world, it’s Monday. So I’m working. I decided that I’d give you and me a day off.

God. If I understand correctly, You care both about what I say and how I say it.You care both about what I do and what reasons I have for doing it.You care about widows and orphans and invite me to do the same.You care about the damage to others I can do with the anger […]

I’m watching Ben TV. He’s napping upstairs, under a quilt made by a woman who was kicked of her bedroom seventy years ago by my mother. More accurately, my mother moved from Wisconsin to Minneapolis to finish her teaching degree. She didn’t have a job. She didn’t have a place to live. And her first […]