Daily observations about following Jesus
It’s hard to be original around Easter. Everything has been said and is being said and will be said, in thousands of sermons and blogposts, books and status updates. I’ve even said some of it myself, in a Lent book, in five years of posting here. But maybe novelty isn’t the point of Easter. Maybe […]
Read More…I don’t think of Lent as a time to form habits. I think of it as a time to give up. But embracing something new always has in it surrender. And surrender always has offers something new. So what if I approached Lent as a time of testing. Not being tested as much as testing […]
Read More…It was the best day of fishing ever. But it started as the worst. Seven guys working together tossing out the big net across the water. Letting it sink. Pulling it in. Nothing. Row a bit further. Toss out the big net across the surface of the water. Let it sink. Pull it in. Nothing. […]
Read More…“Is it okay if I sort of skim through the end of Exodus?” my friend said. “Those details about assembling the ark and the curtains and the tabernacle get really long.” He’s reading through the Bible for the second time. The first time took him three years. Now he’s doing it again to pick up […]
Read More…What if you simply decided to spend seven weeks reading the Bible? For a couple months setting aside the usual distractional reading, the escape reading, the three-minute-break reading, the just-one-more-link reading. Making the Bible be your reading while you fall asleep, while you are waking up, while you are in the bathroom, while you are […]
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