trust – Page 2 – 300 words a day

Broken, all the time

Our Apple modem went orange. Again. (Its little light is green when everything’s working right.) That happens every month or two. Something inside its little brain is not happy, and it tells us so. If I unplug it from the wall and then plug it back in, it’s happy again. But the fact that it […]

by Jon Swanson

What do you want to be true of you in five years?

(I first published this on June 24, 2010. Did any of you take my advice then? What if we started now?) “What do you want to be true of you as a leader in five years? What do you want your wife to say about you as a church leader? What do you want your […]

by Paul Merrill

Waiting again

Heather and I are at a place of waiting again. We are trusting God for what’s next in several areas of our lives. It’s not easy, nor is there lots of fun in that aspect of our journey. I’m reminded of family car journeys, when the kids ask, “Are we there yet?” The kids are […]

by Paul Merrill

Forgetting the solution

Getting bogged down in the grind if daily life is so easy. The stresses of doing our best at work, maintaining healthy relationships, paying the bills, being a better partner, figuring out how to help out a friend in crisis or sometimes just having the energy to keep swimming in the stream of life are […]

by Jon Swanson

Listening for Calling

A guest post by Aaron Charles. You love stories. You know how I know that? Because we all love stories. From fairy tales to that yarn your grandma spins every time you see her, stories captivate us. Many of us have something else in common too. It’s a question we’ve grappled with for so long. […]