This morning I spent a few minutes on Skype with my friend Paul from Venture Expeditions. The Venture guys are excited about their upcoming Love Does Tour and their partnership with Bob Goff and Restore International to provide justice and education to children in Uganda. A few of our friends are reuniting on that ride, […]
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Before An Open Door
Last time I told you about Alycia’s choice to do a difficult task. She knocked. God opened the door. She stepped boldly and courageously through the door and into the opportunity. If I’m honest with myself, I have this sense that lately I spend a lot of time in front of open doors. Jesus said, “Ask and […]
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Last week I got to sit in with a group of young (mostly twenty-something) folks at our church. My friend Bob told them something that’s been rattling in my brain. If you want to follow Jesus, you need to get to know Him. It’s not enough to know His words. In fact, His words alone […]
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HAPPY MONDAY! Some words of comfort got me thinking about today’s word-of-the-week… COMMUNITY Against a backdrop of grief, people representing a variety of faiths gathered a few weeks ago in Boston’s Cathedral of the Holy Cross to pray for healing. The common themes were reconciliation, forgiveness, resilience, and community. I was especially struck by the simple, humble […]
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Over at the Rich’s Ride blog I’ve been talking about our upcoming Front Range FREEDOM Tour 2013. You should click the link and check it out. Becky and I have answered a lot of questions about the ride over the past few weeks. Those discussions got me thinking back to Jesus’ words in Luke 6:38: […]
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My friend Alycia is in Sierra Leone this week. She arranging micro-finance opportunities and working to connect on-the-ground organizations that help kids who live in absolutely deplorable conditions. She organized and financed the trip. It’s a difficult, dangerous place for a white woman to travel alone. She might have selected a group mission trip to […]
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Want to produce better fruit? Hook up with a better tree. # # # Well, it’s happening again. My recent focus on Luke 6:38 and the surrounding verses are yielding a bunch of unexpected insights. A few days ago I wrote about a conversation with Jesus about Becoming A Fruit Tree. I came away from that discussion […]
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Becky and I spent a big chunk of the weekend talking to people about Front Range Freedom Tour 2013. Lots of people stopped to chat. Most had a similar reaction: I’d like to do something like that, but it looks too hard. It would take so much time. I couldn’t afford it. You get the […]
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Happy Monday! A four-year-old philosopher brings us today’s word-of-the-week… TRUTH My cousin has been emphasizing the importance of always telling the truth with her four-year-old daughter. Seems like a simple, straightforward concept, right? So after one particular heart-to-heart, the young philosopher got that look that said there was something spinning around in her brain. “Mom, […]
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Happy Saturday! I think I live a pretty sheltered life when it comes to understanding how fortunate I am to live where I live. Grab a cup of coffee and watch this incredible story of a courageous young woman and a stranger who helped her. Can’t see the video in your email or reader? Click […]
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My thoughts about The Easy Button reminded me of a 1971 cult movie called Billy Jack. If you haven’t seen the film, you might recognize its theme song One Tin Soldier. Tom Laughlin plays a native-American Green Beret Vietnam veteran. The film centers on cultural conflict between leaders of an Indian reservation school and corrupt, […]
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I’m still messing with the “good measure” passage in Luke 6:38. Or perhaps more accurately, it’s messing with me. Check out the background here and here. Jesus and I had to take a walk through the RUV—Rich’s Unstandardized Version—when I read past verse 38. “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree […]
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