resources – 300 words a day

The attraction of blank journals is often greater than the discipline to write in them.

The attraction of blank journals is often greater than the discipline to write in them. To journal day after day about the progress of your heart. Or what you think is the lack of progress, until you look at the journal year after year and discover that you are growing in some ways. The attraction […]

by Jon Swanson

Getting started with spiritual growth

Last week, I talked about defining spiritual formation. I suggested that we could say Spiritual formation happens when a community holds beliefs about what it means to be spiritually healthy that they use to develop and implement a process intended to foster those beliefs and that spiritual health in others. A friend wanted some help […]

by Paul Merrill

Totally different values

We forget. I forget. Almost all over this planet, we are surrounded by the message that the richer you are, the better your life will be. Everywhere we turn, we hear and see messages that we need to: have our dishes washed by a better machine drive a newer car eat tasty food prepared by […]

by Paul Merrill

More about distractions

Jon and I both struggle with distraction. His recent post on being distracted got me thinking further (once I focused a little and pushed a few distractions out of the way). What did Jesus do? He had to deal with a lot more distraction than I do, since he was extremely popular. Three incidents show […]

by Jon Swanson

Looking at the context.

My favorite teaching is when I get to walk through part of the Bible with a group of people. It’s how I started 300 words several years ago, walking through the book of Matthew. On Sunday, I was teaching about part of the letter of Colossians. Rather than spend all of our time examining particular […]