300 words a day

Have I talked about this with you? Growing up, being part of churches that talk about making disciples, I heard a lot about the last few sentences of the Gospel of Matthew. Jesus tells his disciples, the eleven, to go and make disciples. Or as they are going, to make disciples. We’ve had conversations about […]

Rich Dixon is pushing on. +++ Our weekend in Cape Girardeau marked the beginning of Week 6. Closer now to end than beginning, I began to look back for patterns and lessons. In a church service we attended earlier in the ride, the pastor spoke about these words from James: Now listen, you who say, “Today […]

a reflection on Psalm 131 I want a quieted soul. Not a slug-like soul, unable to respond quickly. Not a blob-of-oatmeal-like soul, passionless and benign by design. Helpful, yes, for heart-health and non-irritating for the gluten-resistant, but not noted for controlled creativity. I want a soul which, though capable of sleep-destroying worry and relationship-demolishing anger, has […]

I don’t very often title these messages I give on Sunday mornings. There’s nowhere to put the title, really, and there is no need. But I wrote a title for these words when I wrote them a few years back, because it seemed like the thing to do. Here’s the title: Three things to remember […]

God. Most of us feel like we’re not doing very well. Like Elijah, we think that everyone is against us, and everything is going wrong, and you aren’t keeping up your part of the bargain. The part that says “If we do good things, you’ll do good to us. And if we do bad things, you’ll […]