300 words a day

Rich Dixon is riding in Colorado this week. But that didn’t keep him from writing: +++ Last time ended at “winners live with clear eyes.” “Now think about people who care about you: family, friends, teammates. What’s it like when you let them down? Didn’t keep commitments or do your best. Didn’t hustle. Didn’t show […]

Early Sunday morning, I was looking at my notes for the class I’m preparing about pastoral care. I was writing about the early days of the church in Jerusalem. What Acts says is that after listening to Peter preaching, “those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three […]

Jesus told a story about a farmer sowing seeds. You can read the story here. I talked about it at the hospital yesterday. Here’s part of what I said: +++ The farmer, at that moment Jesus, was tossing out words of the kingdom of God all the time. “Repent, for the kingdom of God is […]

God. Isaiah describes buds and flowers and singing hills and clapping trees, and people walking into the middle of it with joy and peace. And we think about it for a moment and say, “That would be nice.” We sigh. And then we turn from the Bible app to the Facebook app, and we are lost in […]

Last week, I talked about a prayer writing assignment I’ll be giving in a pastoral care course. My friend Andy takes suggestions like that seriously, and wrote a series of prayers for particular situations. He sent them to me in Messenger. I asked if I could share them. He said I could. And so I […]