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Rich Dixon invites us into a challenging season. +++ The FREEDOM TOUR has encountered an obstacle. I’ve spent the last few days fussing about it. Time for true confessions. We discovered late last week that local governments won’t allow us to use the beautiful Fort Collins bike trails for our Freedom Tour Classic. Since all […]

Sometimes the wine runs out. The story isn’t going to end there, of course. We know where the Jesus-wedding-wine story goes. But the non-fatal story that you are in the middle of right now is going to keep going, too. The embarrassment you are afraid of isn’t all there is. Because you are no more […]

“I did everything I could. But it wasn’t enough.” I talk to nurses these days. ICU nurses work and care and listen and do as well they possibly can. It’s what nurses do. Some days, they make no mistakes, they offer remarkable care to patients and their families, they do everything they and the physicians […]

God. We read about miracles in the Bible. People healed. People fed. Water turned into wine. We want those kinds of miracles. Because people are sick. People are hungry. We’d just love to have a great celebration. We don’t see those miracles. Maybe we could help people out. Offer them courage. Offer them opportunities.Maybe we […]

“There is no shame in not leaping from a plane. There is no shame in delivering a good batch of non-gourmet chocolate chip cookies.” I wrote those sentences on January 2, 2014. I was thinking about writing a manifesto, a battle cry of belief. A manifesto is an answer to the question posed on the […]