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The more I feed your ego, the more I starve your soul

I wrote that in my journal Tuesday afternoon. I was sitting on a sofa, looking at the piles of work on my heart. It’s buried among a bunch notes and lists and descriptions and projects. But here’s what I think it means. It is possible for me to feed your ego. Not here. I mean […]

by Jon Swanson

Afraid of the diagnosis.

I was working on a big video project. I gave a couple people rough edits of their sections of the video. They watched them and gave me feedback. They told me what didn’t work, what they didn’t understand. It was hard. I don’t like getting a diagnosis. I want my picture of how things are […]

by Jon Swanson

The terror of normal

He was a guy. He was sitting, calmly, listening to Jesus. He looked normal. And he was. People from the neighborhood came out to see Jesus. They heard about pigs flying. Flying like lemmings that is, leaping from cliffs like ones possessed. They heard about a huge stampede, an economic crisis in an agricultural community. When the […]

by Jon Swanson

Writing a Bible biography

Okay. So I just made up that title. But I don’t know what else to call stories of people in the Bible. Say, for example, that you want to understand more about Joseph of Arimathea. You hear that name around Easter. (Or in yesterday’s post). 1. Go to Biblegateway.com. In the search field, enter “Joseph […]

by Jon Swanson

The four Josephs

A couple weeks ago a friend asked me if I had a post or a story about Joseph. “Which one?” I asked. “Many colors, Jesus’ stepdad, the garden guy, or aka Barnabas?” My friend was looking for “many colors.” But I was intrigued that there are four. I mentioned yesterday that I’m talking about some […]