belief – Page 18 – 300 words a day

good news. I’m not.

A woman runs into town. “Come and see! Come and see!” No one looks up. She’s fallen in and out of love so many times that no one much cares what she says. Her judgment about what is worth looking at is, shall we say, uncertain. “I think I might have found the Christ.” You […]

by Jon Swanson

i bet they weren’t ready

Jesus and his disciples were attracting a crowd. People came, the disciples baptized, the religious leaders noticed. They had the story wrong, of course. They thought Jesus was doing baptizing. But still, they noticed. For some reason, when Jesus hears about the attention, he heads out of town, back toward home. It could be that […]

by Jon Swanson

words or Word

(Today is a guest post from Rich Dixon, a new and frequent commenter here. ) How do you get to know the truth? A friend once told me that it doesn’t do much good to talk about truth. He said that if you really want to know truth you need to hang out with it, […]

by Jon Swanson

forget the chapters

Miracles have a way of capturing attention. If you have seen someone who was paralyzed and then isn’t, and you know that the clearest action between was talking with God, you stop and think. If you shouldn’t have enough food and you do, and you know the clearest action in between was talking with God, […]

by Jon Swanson

sometimes something clicks

I was sitting on a dock in a small lake in western Michigan. It was early summer morning. I was working as a counselor at a camp for the summer. I was between my first two years of college. I took time off my computer job to be with kids. I’m not sure why, exactly. […]