“Justice is what love looks like in public. “Justice that is only justice soon degenerates into something less than justice. Justice must be rescued by something deeper…and yes, that something is love.” Dr. Cornell West I highly recommend listening to Dr. West’s thought-provoking keynote address at The Trinity Institute’s CREATING COMMON GOOD conference. Please leave a […]
Continue readingI Don’t Care?
Last week a friend published a poem. He prefaced it with a disclaimer: “I don’t care whether you like it or not.” I thought it sort of sad that he felt the need to include that statement. Frankly, I didn’t believe him. We don’t write or paint or do any sort of art to please […]
Continue readingLet Go
“No, really…how do you stop worrying?” That’s basically the response when I offered a one-trick answer to an impossible question. “That dream stuff sounds all good and everything, but what happens in the REAL world?” Well, I don’t think following Jesus is idealistic or unrealistic. I do believe He offered practical, real-world guidance, but that […]
Continue readingNothing (Repost)
Happy Monday! Okay, it’s a little weird, but for today’s word-of-the-week I’m thinking about NOTHING “Nothing” is an odd word. How can you write a blog post about nothing? You can play interesting word games with “nothing.” For example: A crust of bread is better than nothing, and nothing is better than a big, juicy […]
Continue readingRemember The Dream
“How do you stop worrying?” Yeah, right. I’ll just toss out the magic answer, because I never get trapped in my own downward spiral of worry. Thankfully, the question came at the end of our session. I was literally saved by the bell, but I spent good part of the next week wondering. What’s the […]
Continue readingCommandment #1
The truth is, Fear has become a false God, one too many of us worship with complete and undying devotion. John Pavlovitz Please leave a comment here.
Continue readingHot Sauce And The Home Of Hope
You wouldn’t typically link Northern Colorado hot sauce and Project Rescue’s HOME OF HOPE in New Delhi. My friend Scott sent a note last week. He makes his own salsa and hot sauce, mostly from ingredients grown in his back-yard garden, to give to his friends He got this crazy idea to set up a small display […]
Continue readingTouch
HAPPY MONDAY! A weekend of great conversations brings us today’s word-of-the-week… TOUCH We spent a big part of the weekend talking to people who might want to do this summer’s 500-mile FRONT RANGE FREEDOM TOUR. I came away with a profound sense of the opportunity God provides for us to touch people in remarkable, unexpected […]
Continue readingWhat To Do When Things Don’t Go Your Way
When you take off on an adventure, things rarely proceed as planned. The inaugural editition of FRONT RANGE FREEDOM TOUR included, ummm, I guess we’d call it a misadventure. You can read the entire story here. In general it involved a team on road bikes lost in a rattlesnake-infested field because a trail that was supposed […]
Continue readingShould We Limit Our Speech?
Pope Francis recently encouraged us to exercise our fundamental human right to free speech in ways that don’t intentionaly offend other faiths. For Americans, this suggestion challenges our closely-held belief that personal rights, enumerated in the Constitution (not the bible), trump everything. People fought and died to defend those rights, and we’ll not surrender them to anyone under […]
Continue readingWhat Are You Waiting For?
In my experience, ‘wait’ almost always means ‘never’.” ~ MLK Are you waiting for someone else to organize that thing you care about? Waiting is inactivity. And inactivity is the same thing as opposition, because evil thrives when those who care do nothing. Doing something is a choice. Sitting on the sidelines, wishing someone else […]
Continue readingFreedom Tour News
We’re getting excited about this summer and the 2015 edition of FRONT RANGE FREEDOM TOUR. Click the link for opportunities to be a part of this remarkable story. It’s gonna be a blast! Please leave a comment here. Want to receive free updates? Click below to get Bouncing Back delivered directly to your inbox.
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