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“What do you want to keep doing?”“What do you want to start doing?”“What do you want to stop doing?” Three questions from Jon Acuff’s Instagram account the other day, three questions to ask moving into a new month. For those of us who started doing things at the beginning of the new year, those are […]

Rich Dixon finishes the first week of his ride. +++ A reflection about last week’s post, to finally complete the first week of our 1500-mile ride: I won’t romanticize 35 years of paralysis; being confined to a wheelchair stinks. It’s painful and frustrating. I believe God can heal my injury. I’m NOT thankful for the […]

Here’s what I think was happening on that hillside. Jesus sat down up on a hillside. His closest friends came and sat down with him. He looked around at their faces. He looked around at their hearts. And he knew what was in each. And he started to talk. As he looked first at one […]

Yesterday, our Gospel reading was from Matthew 5. It took me back to a couple of posts I wrote on the text. I decided it was worth sharing. +++ Jesus says “Blessed” nine times at the beginning of a lesson he starts teaching in Matthew five. We look at this list, which is often called […]

God- Some of us feel foolish all the time. We feel insecure and powerless and overwhelmed. We’re just looking for things to make sense. We’re just looking for someone to trust. We’re just looking for a sign from you. And you know we’d do just about anything to get your help. We’d do just about […]