Awareness

HAPPY MONDAY! A busy weekend prompts today’s word-of-the-week… AWARENESS Our church spent the weekend doing a number of activities designed to create awareness about the issue of human trafficking. A few thousand people left with a lot of information. Someone asked whether all that knowledge makes any difference. I suppose you could argue that the […]

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Jesus Talks About Comparing

I used to work for a principal who claimed that the most unfair thing we could do was treat everyone exactly the same. Do you agree? Many folks objected when he approached different kids in different ways. I can’t imagine how many times I heard someone whine, “It’s not fair!” Our insistence on “fairness” is […]

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Disrupt

HAPPY MONDAY! One of my favorite t-shirts inspires today’s word-of-the-week… DISRUPT Becky went to a conference several years ago. I got a t-shirt. She heard Congressman John Lewis speak. Lewis was a member of Dr. Martin Luther King’s inner circle and the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington. He was on the motel […]

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Capturing Moments

We get to meet some remarkable people. RICH’S RIDE connects us with a lot of talented, generous folks who support our crazy journey. Recently we were honored to spend some time with Julie Ulstrup of Julie Ulstrup Photography. Julie’s a gifted freelance photographer dedicated to “Capturing Moments, Sharing Joy, Creating Memories To Last A Lifetime.” […]

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Is Fear “Normal”?

We take fear for granted. I think we live in a culture of fear. We’re quite literally immersed in it. We’re so accustomed to being afraid that we don’t even realize how much this embedded fear drives our thinking, attitudes, and choices. For all of our talk about freedom we seem obsessed with power and […]

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What Do They Need?

Last night our small group did an interesting study. We looked at Acts 16:11-40, the story of the roots of the Philippian church. The story recounts the conversion of three diverse characters: Lydia, a wealthy foreigner; a demon-posessed slave girl; and a Roman jailer. Paul approached each person differently. He did what each needed to […]

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Fight

Happy Monday! An exchange around a tweet prompts today’s word-of-the-week… FIGHT My tweet simply said “Life’s not a battle…unless you choose to fight.” My friend Kristen raised a great counterpoint. I choose to fight. I choose to fight against apathy. I choose to fight against injustice. I choose to fight against all of the lies […]

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