Pharisee – 300 words a day

Sometimes you have to hit reset.

You are working on a project and things get complicated. There are revisions and modifications. The documentation doesn’t keep up with the adjustments. Someone becomes the keeper of the knowledge and the explanations. Then everyone gets in a hurry and doesn’t care to hear the explanations any more, they just want to have the knowledge. […]

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

Clueless disciples

Jesus loved to tell stories. Jesus loved to be subtle. Jesus loved to find out if hearts were paying attention. Sometimes it didn’t exactly work. —- Jesus and the disciples were heading to the other side. They kept crossing the lake, moving from crowd to crowd, need to need, person to person. This time, in […]

by Jon Swanson

Sometimes you have to start over.

by Jon Swanson

follow me.

Matthew could have made it complicated. Matthew could have made it clear. Matthew is telling the story of his own decision to follow Jesus. He could have provided lots of background about what his life had been like, what his business practices were. He could have provided us with pictures of his heart, his soul, […]