Right

Happy Monday! A stranger’s death prompts today’s word-of-the-week… RIGHT By nearly any definition, Aaron Swartz was a computer prodigy, a brilliant, eccentric young man. As a teenager he created some of the backbone Internet systems we take for granted and later campaigned for online transparency and freedom. You can read briefly about his life, legal […]

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Stone Her!

I’ve been thinking all week about our pastor’s weekend sermon. He talked about the story of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery. John 8:2-11 There’s so much to the story, but I can’t get past one fact: the Pharisees were willing to stone this woman—to death! Her life mattered less than their desire to […]

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We’re Surrounded!

Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid is one of my top-ten favorite movies of all time. In the final scene, Butch and Sundance are surrounded. After some concluding wisecracks, they boldly confront the entire Bolivian army in one final, futile last stand. Earlier there’s a wonderful scene, including a memorable 60’s song, in which Butch […]

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What If We Forget?

Cranking a bike in the garage on a stationary trainer feels hopeless. It doesn’t matter how hard you work or how much you sweat. The scenery never changes, you don’t move, and there’s no sense of progress or arrival. Riding outside, effort changes the outcome. Ride harder, move faster, go farther, get back quicker. But […]

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Are You Ready?

If you haven’t heard, there’s a bike ride coming up. Three weeks from today we’ll crank out of Jacksonville to begin Florida Hope Tour 2013. We’re excited. Becky and I will welcome some warm weather. Monte’s just anxious to get outside and go running again. One of my big hopes is for you to be […]

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Derailed

Happy Monday! This morning I’m vowing to fix a situation described by today’s word-of-the-week… DERAILED We have a model train with special Christmas-themed cars. It’s a fun holiday decoration, but one of the cars tends to derail frequently. The train still moves along its path, but the derailed wheel makes the journey sort of bumpy […]

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Resolution Or New Beginning?

In this season of new beginnings there seem to be two categories of people: those who avoid New Year’s Resolutions and those who fail to keep them. Actually, there’s a small third group. Something around 7-8% of people who make resolutions actually accomplish them. I’ve been thinking about why we struggle so much with new […]

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A Brush With Fame

Note: This post is part of the story-behind-the-story of RICH’S RIDE. I wrote it as a thank-you to Don Miller, without knowing if I’d be able to get the attention of a famous author like him. I worked at it for a few weeks, and yesterday he responded! He also tweeted a link. In a […]

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