One Tin Soldier

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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On Becoming A Fruit Tree

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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A Good Measure Of Dog Food

A few days ago my friend Jon Swanson asked blog readers to explain how we read the Bible. I finally figured out my response by feeding the dog this morning. When it’s meal time, I tell Monte to “get his dish.” He eagerly fetches the scoop we use to measure his food. The scoop is […]

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Forgiveness

Happy Monday! This weekend’s teaching on Luke 6:38 inspires today’s word-of-the-week… FORGIVENESS I’ve told you before about my unauthorized personal version of the bible. It’s called RUV—Rich’s Unstandard Version. Occasionally I encounter a conversation with Jesus in RUV when I’m trying to make sense of words from the real bible. Jesus and His friends are […]

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Unconventional Sermons…

…are some of the best. Happy Saturday! Have you watched the TV show Duck Dynasty? A friend told me about it, and I’ll confess I sort of dismissed it without giving it a chance. I think I’d like spending time on Phil Robertson’s porch. He’d likely think my handcycle is silly, just as I think […]

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What Can I Do?

It’s been a tough few days. Explosions, investigations, arrests. Bloody images. triage, heroes, evacuations, survivors, and casualties. The stuff of war zones, exponentially more horrific because it played out on our own streets. If you’re like me, you probably aren’t directly impacted. Unless you live in Boston or West, Texas, the routines of your daily […]

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Turn Up The Light

Last night Becky read a quote from Facebook. “If you’re trying to defeat the human spirit, marathoners are the wrong group to target.” It’s easy to become discouraged and cynical in the wake of the senseless violence of the Boston attacks. It’s also true that light overwhelmed darkness in the moments following the explosions. Runners […]

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