Daily observations about following Jesus
As much as I would like to believe that I am not a sheep, I am one. Not, I suppose, a blind follower of a random mindless herd. (Unless that’s what all followers of Christ are). I like to believe that I have the capacity to think with some originality. I like to believe that […]
Read More…(Here’s the video version of this post: The foolish cure) Namaan was sick. He was a war hero, he was an army commander, he was the king’s confidant. And he was sick. There was nothing he could do. There was no one that could help. Because of the contagion, he would be cut off from his […]
Read More…I am just starting to understand what it means to follow Jesus. That’s what I tell myself regularly. I don’t understand all that relationship means. I have so much that I haven’t taken seriously from the Bible. I often think, “I need to spend some time following that thread all the way through.” (For an […]
Read More…The people of Israel were on the wrong side of the Jordan River. By wrong side, I mean the side away from the promised land. They had a forty-year old memory of what happens in situations like this: Moses holds up a walking stick and the waters split like a Cecil B DeMille movie. But […]
Read More…More, sort of, on sales. Every weekday, I set up a little storefront here. I offer you 300 words. It will cost you time to buy them, at the expense of other words you could buy with that time, other tasks you could complete. It will cost you attention, focus that could be spent on […]
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300 words a day 