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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 […]

I wrote this post and the paraphrase more than a decade ago. +++ It happens all the time in songs (and in stories.) For the first two verses, everything is bad. And then the hero comes, the story turns, the cavalry arrives, the light dawns. We love to read these stories, to sing these songs, […]

Years ago, I read about a college president who had a practice of placing a statue of a fox in the college quad on a random snowy day. When it happened, classes were canceled for the day. Papers that would have been due were not. Speeches that would have been given were not. And because […]