Daily observations about following Jesus
300 words will complete 5 years on January 1. Thank you for reading when you do, responding when you do, and encouraging when you do. It’s a humbling thing. Along the way, a couple people said, “We’d read a 300 words version of the Bible.” I couldn’t figure out how to do that. This week […]
Read More…“You need to understand how I grew up,” Nehemiah said. “You know how you heard stories from your mom about how your great-grandfather left Sweden and left his wife and son for a decade while he went to Wisconsin to make a new life? You remember how she wanted you to have a sense of […]
Read More…Nehemiah had a problem in the non-profit he was leading. He’d been called to the international office for a lengthy assignment. During Nehemiah’s tenure, the organization had experienced a resurgence in reputation and impact. A major building project, stalled for a long time, was finally completed in record time. Membership was up, commitment was high. […]
Read More…Nehemiah has challenged me many ways. The biggest so far is the beginning of a series of publications that I’m talking about as “A New Routine.” I published the third ebook this weekend, this one as a Lent reader (Kindle) (Nook). Here’s how it relates to Nehemiah. In my Nehemiah email, I wrote about Nehemiah […]
Read More…Humans love stories. It’s as if we were made to tell stories and listen to stories. Listening to stories makes our brains respond as if we were actually in the situation. For example, words about smells light up the same part of the brain that that the actual smells do. (The science of storytelling.) But […]
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300 words a day 