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When I check the calendar, I can find Easter. As of March 23, there are 17 days. I used to know exactly how much time there was until Easter without having to look at a countdown. My stomach would tell me as I worked on the details of Easter services and Easter dramas and Good Friday […]

Rich Dixon’s back with more teaching, +++ Last time I wondered why an innocent request for directions caused a stranger to threaten me with a shovel. I was a bit frustrated by a blocked trail, a hand-scrawled map, and a morning filled with minor, irritating interruptions. This incident recalled an important truth: It’s not about […]

Yesterday I gave you a short sermon, with links to a couple of stories from the Bible. Today I’ll point out a few things from those stories. I said that God reaches out to us, as we are going about our lives, and touches us. In the stories of Samuel anointing David, and Jesus healing a man born blind, we […]

God reaches out to us, as we are going about our lives, and touches us. And then waits for our response. We can choose to respond or not. If we do, we’ll be different. Other people won’t understand. We won’t understand all the reasons and implications. But we know that God touched us, and we […]

God. Three years ago, we were anxiously waiting, worriedly ready. We were increasingly dreading an illness we didn’t understand. We still don’t understand what happened, though so many people try. What we know for sure is how much we don’t know who to trust. Including you. We are like Samuel, late in his life. Samuel […]