In my experience, ‘wait’ almost always means ‘never’.” ~ MLK Are you waiting for someone else to organize that thing you care about? Waiting is inactivity. And inactivity is the same thing as opposition, because evil thrives when those who care do nothing. Doing something is a choice. Sitting on the sidelines, wishing someone else […]
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Continue readingPut Down The Binoculars
I love going to a Colorado Rockies baseball game on a warm summer evening. For me, nothing beats the panorama and environment of a Major League Baseball stadium. Since we rarely splurge on close-to-the-field seats, I usually take a pair of binoculars so I can zoom in on a particular piece of the field. Binoculars […]
Continue readingWant To Change The World In 23 Weeks?
What are you doing to change the world during the last week of June? Twenty-three weeks from today you can be part of a team that will absolutely make a difference in the lives of some kids who’ve been rescued from human trafficking. It’s a big dream, and we need everyone if we’re going to […]
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HAPPY MONDAY! A personal dilemma has me thinking about today’s word-of-the-week… FOG Lots of ways to get lost in the fog. Loneliness. Addiction. Depression. Grief. Fear. Pain. Fog descends, clarity dissipates, confusion reigns. In the darkness of the fog, once-obvious choices become impossibly obscured. Decisions that ought to be simple become impossibly complex. In the […]
Continue readingA Key To Making Good Choices
“You have to decide in advance.” The guys sitting around the circle looked confused so I let it sit for a few moments. Finally one guy asked, “How can you do that? How can you decide in advance when you don’t know what’s gonna happen?” “What do the rest of you think?” Quiet…the kind of […]
Continue readingA Table, A Church
“The table I long for—the church I hope for—is a place where we let others see where the spirit meets the bone and help heal the wounds. The table I long for—the church I hope for—has the grace of the Gospel as its magnificent centerpiece. The table I long for—the church I hope for—is where […]
Continue readingIt’s Only One Life
How much difference can you make by impacting a single life? If you or I encountered Amber in August 2013, perhaps we would have turned away. At that point she felt completely trapped in addiction and saw no way forward. She couldn’t care for her son and had no idea how she’d deal with her […]
Continue readingGrateful When You Don’t Feel It
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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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 […]
Continue readingStarting…And Starting Again
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 […]
Continue readingDriving Without Hitting Stuff
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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