300 words a day

Funny story.  One day last week, I wrote a quick study on 1 Thessalonians and grieving. (If you come to a men’s breakfast in Glen Ellyn (IL) on February 8, you’ll probably hear it.) A couple days before, Nancy and I were at a thrift shop. It’s what we do for fun. It’s the ultimate cheap […]

I had a completely different post ready for today. Then I decided that it wasn’t ready. It raised a couple questions I wasn’t ready to answer. But as I was reading through my sermon yesterday, I realized that this might be helpful. It’s referring to one of the texts for Sunday, 1 Corinthians 12:12-31. +++ […]

God. We know that we are not like each other. We look different, we do different things, we feel different feelings. We confess that often, we wish you had made us like someone else.We confess that often, we wish you had made other people like us.And we acknowledge that we just wish that people liked […]

Picking up from yesterday. We are given messages to share with each other, messages that are given from God, through the Holy Spirit. Those moments, those messages, those brief glimpse of some special power that one follower of Jesus offers to another, those are miracles. If a miracle means “God acting in supernatural ways in […]

I’m going back to Tuesday, when I was talking about Jesus and wine. We are waiting for Jesus to do the same kind of miracle. Our wine is all gone. Our family is sick. We are confused. People aren’t responding to our cries for help. We are hoping for a miracle and we’re not seeing […]