I Am

Happy Monday! It keeps popping up, so it’s today’s word-of-the-week… I AM Worship songs, books, articles, blogs—seems like everywhere I turn in the past couple of weeks I’ve encountered this “word.” Okay, technically it’s two words, but separately they mean something very different. At the burning bush, Moses asked God for His name. He might […]

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Faith In Real Life

Happy Saturday! I appreciate people who do faith in real life. I know folks who seem to believe following Jesus means withdrawing from the world, isolating themselves from those who think or act differently. That’s fine for them, I guess, but I’m drawn to those who want to mix it up with life without compromising […]

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Who Do You Say I Am?

A while back I led a small group discussion for new believers at church. It was perfect for me, since mostly our conversation was about questions. I’m good at questions, as long as I don’t have to know the answers. I recently received an invitation to repeat the process. Looking back at some of the […]

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When Is It Time To Quit?

Is every dream worth following? My friend Paul Merrill wrote about someone’s dream to restore a rusty 1969 Thunderbird and concluded It’s Not Going To Happen. Paul’s conclusion: It’s healthy to real­ize that some dreams are not going to hap­pen. What do you think? It’s easy to become enamored with a cool idea—restoring a car, […]

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Do You Believe In Justice?

I love urban bike trails. You get to cruise past congested traffic, dense population, industry, and irritating noise on an isolated ribbon of serenity. It’s a perspective of the city unavailable to conventional forms of transportation. Front Range FREEDOM Tour followed the South Platte Trail, which meanders along a quiet river through the heart of […]

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What Did You Learn?

I used to tell my students the most important thing they could learn was how to learn. Mostly they’d stare back at me with that teenage eye-rolling look that says, “Will this be on the test?” It’s okay. I hope they discovered over time that learning doesn’t stop at graduation. When I complete a project […]

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Blessed

Happy Monday! I’m not sure why, but I’m thinking a lot about today’s word-of-the-week… BLESSED Like a lot of new developments, our neighborhood has a set of covenants. We all benefit (in theory) because everyone agrees to abide by a set of rules. A very long time ago, God entered into a covenant relationship with […]

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A Young Man Died

Trayvon Martin. I imagine that name evokes some kind of emotional reaction. It should. A young man died. Part of me wants to simply tune out all the hype, anger, and sensationalism. I don’t need more people yelling at me. A young man died. I wasn’t there, so I can’t know what really happened. I wasn’t […]

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What Can I Say?

A friend wants to understand why I believe in God, or at least how I think about Him. He wants evidence. I know a lot of facts, about books like Lee Strobel’s The Case For Christ. Those of us who believe see the evidence everywhere, but that’s not the sort of proof that’ll impress my […]

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