Being a model.

Am I living a life I’d want someone to copy? Why not? Those two sentences found their way into my journal over the weekend, as I was thinking about a presentation I’ve got coming up. I’m going to talk about being and making disciples. (That subject has shown up as my one word and in […]

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doing something that matters (a repost)

(This was first published July 11, 2009) Purpose is what we are about. Purpose is supposed to be core, supposed to be the thing at the very heart of what we are. Purpose is what we are living for. Purpose is what we would die for. Jesus starts talking about the rest of his life. […]

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How Bud Williams helped me.

When I was in college, we had to take PE courses. As best as I can remember, I took golf and badminton and volleyball and bowling. I looked for the easy courses. I’m not a fitness guy. There was a course I didn’t have a choice about: PE 10, called something like “Foundations of Fitness.” […]

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Sometimes there isn’t a point

I feel like I tricked my friend Rich. Yesterday’s post was about Eutychus. Rich said, “Is it okay to say I don’t get it?” First, let me say that it is alway great to say that you don’t get something that you read here. I am pretty convinced that many times what I say isn’t […]

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The doors were still locked (a repost)

(This is a repost from April 15, 2009. It was suggested by Rich and made sense for the beginning of a new year.) Thomas gets beat up by history. He is known by everyone as “doubting Thomas.” No one remembers that he was the disciple who said, “we’ll probably all die, but let’s follow Jesus […]

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