Nobody’s here by accident. My friend Al used to say that often. It confused me, because I thought Al was saying we should understand why we were there. I figured everyone else knew their purpose, and I had no clue. Besides, we’re all free, right? The fact that a particular group happened to show up […]
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Happy Monday! Since today’s Labor Day in the US, I’ll make the obvious choice for word-of-the-week… WORK I learn a lot from my dog. While we cranked along the Mississippi River last year he wrote a blog post called Play Or Work. He made the important point that it’s okay to be tired if you’re […]
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For me, following Jesus is mostly a process of learning what I already know. I think I’m a perpetual beginner when it comes to integrating what I know into what I do. Yesterday I asked a question: Ever Feel Discouraged? As so often happens, one of those daily, ordinary, almost unnoticed events reminded me of […]
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What kinds of things cause you to become discouraged? The past twenty-four hours have been eventful. Hurricane Isaac made landfall and stalled over New Orleans, dumping buckets of rain on the anniversary of Katrina. I wrote a post over at Rich’s Ride blog expressing concerns for the folks we met in that area last fall. […]
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As I write this, Hurricane Isaac batters the gulf coast. Storms in the south aren’t new. I’ve heard of them all my life, but there’s something different about this one. Less than ten months ago we were riding beside those levees, talking to some of the people whose lives and livlihoods are seperated from the […]
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The more I think about it, the more I like my metaphor (or is it an analogy?) that following Jesus is like walking a tight rope. Is it okay to admit that I like my own metaphor? This weekend our pastor reminded us that early Christians were called followers of The Way and that Jesus described […]
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Happy Monday! Over the weekend I was reminded of the true meaning of today’s word-of-the-week… CHURCH Saturday evening Becky came home happy and exhausted. She spent the day at Sharing Hope, a community outreach partnership between local churches and Convoy of Hope. In a big vacant lot in north Fort Collins, 1300 volunteers from three […]
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Last time I talked about flat tires because it’s thorn season in Colorado. I’ve had six flats in the last five days! I have to admit something. Even though I’ve logged nearly twenty-five thousand miles in thirteen years of handcycling, I’ve never changed my own tires. My buddy Tom has changed dozens of them. Other […]
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Lately I’ve written a lot about my friend Dick Foth. That’s okay—Dick’s a good guy to write about. Due to a scheduling coincidence, Becky and I heard Dick preach in Fort Collins and then three weeks later in Washington, DC. Can I let you in on a bit of a secret? Preachers who speak in […]
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My friend Jon Swanson wrote about Learning Humility. Jon referenced the story from Luke in which the disciples argued about which of them would be greatest. Yesterday a lady from my church called and strongly encouraged me to push for opportunities to tell the story of our recent IJM Freedom Tour. I hear what she’s […]
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It’s thorn season in Colorado. It’s a time when these nasty little thorny thingys (that’s technical cyclist terminology) become especially dry and brittle. Thorn season is characterized by an increase in the number of upside-down bicycles beside roads and trails. There’s one thing cycling and life have in common: flat tires happen to everybody. Sometimes […]
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I’ve written before about this surreal phenomenon that occurs to me when a particular topic seems to pop up in several unrelated contexts in a short period of time. I’ve come to believe it might be one way God tries to gently (and at times not so gently) focus my attention in a certain direction. […]
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