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So what? What does it look like to live in this second or third or sixteen chance at life? I think it looks pretty unspectacular, actually. I think it looks like loving one another. I have a friend who really really likes coffee. He has learned to make lattes. He doesn’t like lattes, those drinks […]

Rich Dixon has an update. FREEDOM TOUR CLASSIC was a huge success. It’s curious to plan an event for nearly an entire year, then it’s over in the blink of an eye. Perhaps it’s my job to keep reminding folks that the kids we support aren’t a one-day event. Their needs continue year-round. This year, […]

Yesterday I said “Sometimes miracles will happen through mundane steps.” Notice I didn’t say because of mundane steps. In the story of Naaman, there is no formula. No one else ever, as far as we read, is healed from skin disease by dipping themselves in the Jordan. Instead, the healing happened when Naaman did what […]

I had a conversation with a woman not long before she died. She knew she was sick. I think she even knew how sick she was. She wanted me to pray for her. I asked her what to pray for. She said, “for a second chance.” Other people get a second chance, she said. She […]

God We are in a hospital. We want to be healed. We would almost be willing to dip ourselves in a dirty river if you would guarantee that we would be healed. We confess.We confess that we’d rather have one big miracle and be done than have tiny steps of obedience.We confess that we prefer […]