Jesus – Page 12 – 300 words a day

but what if you don’t want to be a sheep.

Sheep are not cool animals. Lions are cool. Eagles are cool. Swans are cool. Wild horses are cool. Even geese are cool, at least when you can turn them into a team that shares leadership. (If it weren’t for figuring out leadership lessons from geese, they would just be messy pests.) The rest of the […]

by Jon Swanson

All in the family: Jesus and the Pharisees.

The Pharisees were caught in a sitcom. I think that they are like the dad, the one that tries everything to solve a problem and nothing works? Last thing they knew, Jesus had left town. Their sources told them that he was back home, up in the northern part of the country. Good riddance, they […]

by Jon Swanson

letting him into the boat

The disciples spent a lot of time on the water. Several of them fished professionally. There were sudden storms and bad fishing days but that was part of the job. It was annoying, but it was life. Until Jesus. With Jesus around, with their decision to follow him, to be part of his entourage, they […]

by Jon Swanson

good news. I’m not.

A woman runs into town. “Come and see! Come and see!” No one looks up. She’s fallen in and out of love so many times that no one much cares what she says. Her judgment about what is worth looking at is, shall we say, uncertain. “I think I might have found the Christ.” You […]

by Jon Swanson

words or Word

(Today is a guest post from Rich Dixon, a new and frequent commenter here. ) How do you get to know the truth? A friend once told me that it doesn’t do much good to talk about truth. He said that if you really want to know truth you need to hang out with it, […]