A little thinking about praying.

Once upon a time, I was told that I was a good prayer. I couldn’t figure out how to respond. If prayer is talking with God, then to be evaluated on my conversation skills feels strange. Imagine someone saying, “I was listening when you were talking to Nancy. (She’s my wife). I was so blessed […]

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Trajectories

Rich Dixon takes us back a few years to a bike tour. +++ FREEDOM TOUR 2017 considered the notion of divine appointments. We read the story of David and Goliath, and talked about the impact of small decisions. How might this story (and Israel’s story) have been impacted if David refused Jesse’s request to deliver […]

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What love might look like.

“When the platform is free, you are the product.”  Every time Nancy says something about the irrational or illogical responses that people make to posts on Facebook, I remind her of that truth. When seemingly random videos show up in my Instagram feed, I remind myself.  The other day, though, I watched one of those videos […]

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10 healings, one cure.

We talked last week about going away from people because of the skin disease. But there were different kinds. Some of them disappeared by themselves. Some of them destroyed the life of the person. So there was a process for deciding which kind this was. The rule was that if evidence of disease disappeared, the […]

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A prayer for the seventh Sunday after the Epiphany.

God We tell ourselves and each other to be still before you.We tell each other and ourselves to be patient.We hear that those who do evil will not last,but we can’t be still and be patient when there is so much anger and fear,when there are people losing their lives because of our inhumanity. Or […]

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