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It’s not that the farmer was being judged with death for thinking about keeping everything and retiring. Not at all. It’s that his death was going to show the folly of his choices. Here’s the heart of the story: God doesn’t say, “You are dying because of stuff.” He’s saying that more stuff doesn’t keep […]

Rich Dixon and Jesus go on rides together. +++ Jesus and I had another handcycling conversation this week. The explanation requires a bit of bike geek talk. My spiffy new handcycle uses a unique e-assist system. On most e-bikes you just pedal, and the motor does the work. My bike is “torque sensitive,” which means […]

Then Jesus tells a story. A farmer has a great year. So much so that he is out of storage. He has no place to put it all. He has to decide: “what do I do with all this grain?” It’s a valid question, one that many of us face. We get a bonus, we […]

One place I worked had a copy machine that made copies. It didn’t sort. It didn’t duplex. It made copies. And we made a lot of copies. We put together books for people taking classes. We spent a lot of time making copies and putting the books together. One day we got a new copier. […]

God- I think that we don’t know where you are working. And how.Because you don’t do what we would like how we would like it done, We think that you aren’t working at all. That you are ignoring us. And even that you don’t care. You talk to the people of the tribe of Ephraim […]