300 words a day

God. We think of you often as angry, and we want to think of you as loving.We think of you as loving, and we want to think of you as non-judgmental.We think of you as non-judgmental, and we want to think of you as, well, as shallowly nice. We read texts that talk about your […]

“What do I do for 300 for Friday?” I asked Nancy. She walked into my office from her desk in the family room. “Spring,” she said. “Green grass. The verse I shared on Facebook today.” Nancy has put Bible verses in emails to a small group of friends or to family. As she’s reading every […]

We worry. We worry all the time about messing up, about what might happen. I was in a conversation the other day talking about not giving people false hope, because I know how stories turn out. I know that the odds of death in this illness are great. And I don’t want people to get […]

Rich Dixon brings us an update. +++ Last time our team discussed my odd aversion to accepting assistance. Our discussion began with a teammate’s uncomfortable assertion that service, in our culture, is often tied to convenience. I don’t remember if anyone said it out loud, but as we talked around this issue, I suspect we […]

And in the middle of that time, when Jesus is moving toward Jerusalem even though others may not have realized it yet, some Pharisees came and warned him. As a religious party, the Pharisees probably agreed with Herod about Jesus. He was disruptive to the way things were working. His preaching and healing and power […]