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God is bigger

We love to get everything under control. We love everything situated where things won’t go wrong. As you know, life just isn’t like that. As soon as we get control, things start to fall apart. Sometimes the feeling of everything working smoothly lasts for years. Sometimes it just lasts for a few minutes. Entire industries […]

by Jon Swanson

The rest of Hope

When you read this, Hope will probably be sleeping. She got home Wednesday from two weeks in the Czech Republic (busylifebychoice). After all the travel, all the people, all the new, all the trusting, Hope will spend most of today sleeping. There is something about the rest you get when you are home, really home. […]

by Paul Merrill

Tough Stuff

Walt Disney gives us a false message: “Someday my prince will come.” (Okay, this is a true message, in the ultimate sense. Jesus will come back and make everything right. Eventually.) But meanwhile, life is challenging. Walt Disney tells us that in two hours all of life’s difficult challenges are neatly resolved. The Bible gives […]

by Jon Swanson

How a doubting Thomas believed

On Sunday night, ten disciples were gathered in a room. Okay, there may have been more than ten, but only ten of The Twelve were there. Judas was dead. Thomas simply wasn’t present. It was a gathering of uncertainty. The door was locked. The disciples had heard that Jesus was alive, but weren’t sure what […]

by Jon Swanson

more than watchmen waiting.

You are waiting. You aren’t sure what’s happening. You can’t see to the end of today. And you are waiting. It reminds you of that summer before your senior year of high school, the summer that you worked third shift. All alone in the building, all alone working on the computer. Sometimes alone is okay. […]