questions – 300 words a day

But one thing I do

This blog started January 1, 2009. Here’s what I wrote: Huge dream. Big plans. Complete outline. Clear structure. That’s what I was thinking when I started working on the idea for this website. But that’s not how it’s starting. Instead, we are starting where most people started following Jesus. With a small, simple, uncertain but […]

by Paul Merrill

It gets messy

“Creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay.” Romans 8:21 Almost everything on this planet is not the way it should be. Yes, there’s beauty in a lot of what’s out there, but there is freedom in realizing that when we see things that […]

by Jon Swanson

Round John Virgin and the Innkeeper.

Some kid makes a drawing of the Nativity scene. Everyone looks familiar except for a guy standing in the corner. “Who’s that?” asks his teacher or mom or Sunday school teacher. “That’s Round John Virgin,” says the kid. “You know, Round John Virgin, mother, and child.” It’s a cute story. It’s probably not true. The […]

by Jon Swanson

all the days in between

(In this week after Christ the King Sunday and before Advent, I’m thinking about being in between. And I found this old post.) Paul spent somewhere between 27 months and three years in Ephesus. We know what he did night and day for three years. We know what he did for two years. We know […]

by Jon Swanson

Dear God.

Dear God. I don’t know what to do. I am completely lost. So help me with this call. That’s the prayer, written on a piece of paper in front of me. I’m guessing it is like many prayers written on many pieces of paper. It is like the prayers that I read when I flip […]