300 words a day

The clocks change in our country on this Sunday, an intentional and arbitrary shift forward by an hour. And for the first time in decades, I don’t care. I’m not responsible to help a congregation remember. I’m not responsible to be at work on time, to make sure every clock I see in someone else’s […]

Every day, almost, I see things that are broken. Or poorly designed. Or that could be much better. Last weekend, I went to a coffee shop to enjoy some delicious coffee for a couple of hours in a stimulating environment. After I finished washing my hands, I saw that the trashcan just below the towel […]

Some people look spiritual for all the wrong reasons. Jesus singles them out. He calls them “false prophets.” Why do they choose to be false? Because some people trust spiritual-looking people for all the wrong reasons. Jesus offers a couple warnings near the end of his lesson. People can look like good people because they […]

Rich Dixon is following up on his own thinking. +++ I’ve been thinking about guilt and shame since last time. Guilt’s about something I’ve done wrong. Until I deal with it, the guilt remains. Problem is, often we’re hanging on to stuff we’re afraid might be unforgivable. So we try to ignore it, and we […]

I have written elsewhere about deliberate practice. Simply, it is choosing to work in a focused way on the weakest parts of what you are best at. Such specific work can, I think, apply in following Jesus. It came to mind when looking at what Jesus said about gates and roads. “Enter through the narrow […]