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Rich Dixon is helping us to remember. +++ Recently, Jon said we often forget parts of the story. Speaking for myself, I tend to forget big parts of the story most of the time. Here’s an example. Over on my blog (richsride.org), I’ve been focused for a while on the Sermon on the Mount. By […]

The second thing about a picnic Jesus plans is this: don’t assume that you will get the best seats because you know the host. Jesus was watching the guests at this banquet playing a game. They would come in. They would look around. They would try to estimate how important they were in relation to […]

I started wondering what kind of Labor Day picnic Jesus would plan. Would he actually plan a party like the one he told the Pharisees to plan? Jesus knew the rules, too. Just because he broke them didn’t mean he didn’t know them. As he arrived at the dinner, he discovered that he wasn’t the […]

God. We think we talk to you all the time. We ask you for protection for family in the path of the hurricane. We ask you to keep our loved one from dying in the emergency room. We ask you for jobs and health and money and relief. Then we talk about you showing up.Or […]

Forty years ago this summer, Nancy and I moved from Austin, Texas, to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and I started teaching “Intro to Public Speaking” at Fort Wayne Bible College.  I had finished my Ph.D. coursework, and had passed my qualifying exams, and was supposed to be figuring out a research question for my dissertation. It […]