disciple – Page 15 – 300 words a day

Safe terror.

When I was working on my goals for the year, my 99 goals, here’s one thing I wrote: Make 300 words a primary resource for people wanting to learn safely about the terrors of following Jesus. When I look at that goal now, I have no idea what I was thinking when I wrote it. […]

by Jon Swanson

A tweet left unsent.

I was going to tweet this yesterday: “Page views are less important to me than relationships.” It would have been a great tweet. It came to me when I was with a bunch of people at Sharehouse ( where Nancy works). I had been shooting some video of the people working. I said “I won’t […]

by Jon Swanson

I’m trying to write.

I’m trying to write a post. But I can’t. I review drafts to see whether anything can be resurrected. There are 44 drafts. Some are complete, waiting only for the right time. Some are a sentence or two, reflecting a thought I want to capture. But none of them is right. I flip through my […]

by Jon Swanson

One word for 2011 – disciple

For the past three years, I have chosen three words to provide some direction. It has been a great exercise. And for the first two years, it was very helpful. This last year, however, I realized that three words are two too many for me. I am too easily confused. I forget them. And, in […]