I’m really grateful for this RICH’S RIDE thing I get to do. Frankly, sometimes I can’t imagine where I’d be without it. Since I wrote last week about Driving Without Hitting Stuff I’ve been thinking about how I don’t think Jesus cares much about darkness. I mean, He does in the sense that He doesn’t want […]
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Mistakes
HAPPY MONDAY! A thought-provoking statement brings us today’s word-of-the-week… MISTAKES “Mistakes are a great opportunity to ask for help.” An athlete said a coach once told him to stop regretting his mistakes. Instead, the coach advised him to find someone who could help him learn from every mistake. We’ve all heard about learning from our […]
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Jesus said some inconvenient stuff. My friend Liz talks about pick-n-choosers, folks like me who occasionally ignore the less warm and fuzzy parts of Jesus’ teaching. When we confront issues of social justice, I suspect we all have to be aware of biases that lead us to pick-n-choose. As I’ve worked with the men at […]
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Would you agree that there’s more to good driving than “not running into stuff”? As a kid I developed the really bad driving habit of staring at oncoming traffic. Makes sense, right? Oncoming traffic is the biggest danger, so why wouldn’t you watch it carefully? The problem, of course, is that you tend to steer […]
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How can you help someone who needs you? A while back I was asked to do a workshop for folks who are working in difficult areas of ministries. Since I’m a wheelchair user, I was supposed to offer a seated perspective of things people have done that have been helpful and some that haven’t. At the […]
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Unfortunately, most of my secular friends … view the church not as a change agent that can affect all of society but as a place where like-minded people go to feel better about themselves. That image of church stands in sharp contrast to the vision of Jesus, who said little about how believers should behave […]
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I love it when someone sees something that needs doing and does it. Louis Gray is a self-described technology geek. He works for Google and writes a blog about early-adopter tech stuff. Last month he decided to combine his love of gadgets with his desire to challenge himself and support a cause that matters to him. I […]
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Once upon a time, a teenager acted out and made some bad choices in rebellion against a lifetime of abuse. One group of people felt bad for her and resolved to pray for her. One group felt bad for her but didn’t want her around because they feared she’d be a bad influence on their […]
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HAPPY MONDAY! Welcome to a new year and a totally predictable word-of-the-week… START A New Year is a perfect time to start. Except, it’s really not. A New Year is really a good excuse to avoid starting. There’s no good time to start. We’re never quite ready. We’re always afraid of something. The audience isn’t prepared […]
Continue readingDo You Ever Worry About Worrying?
Somewhere along the line I learned to worry. I got really good at it, and as a young adult the notion of NOT worrying about stuff seemed really odd. In fact, I worried when I wasn’t worried. When I finally figured it out, I realized that I somehow equated not worrying with not caring. In […]
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! Have you ever considered the tiny size of a seed? These geranium seeds nearly disappear in the palm of a hand. One seed, by itself, seems inconsequential. You purchase them in packets, partly because it’s difficult to imagine that much could come of a single seed. If you dropped one seed, I don’t […]
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It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1) There are two kinds of freedom. Freedom from allows life without oppression, injustice, tyranny, abuse, or violence. Freedom from insures my right to live my life as […]
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