Here’s a link to the 2011 New Year edition of Rich’s Semi-Regular Newsletter. Happy New Year–and that the last time for this year.
Continue readingHow To Just Get Over It
How do you get over it? Ever been there? Something terrible happens and you can’t escape the grief. Or maybe a whole lot of things just accumulate and you just don’t feel very positive about life. Unwanted tears appear without warning. You feel stifled under a heavy blanket of pervasive sadness. The fog of depression […]
Continue readingGood Without God?
Is “good” always good? I’ll bet you received a lot of “year-end” messages from different organizations seeking a final funding push. One that caught my attention was an appeal to join in combating their perception of a growing movement called “good without God.” I was invited to sign an online declaration—and of course to send […]
Continue readingThe Bible Is About…
Here’s a list of articles in our Wednesday series about the Bible: The Bible: What Did It Mean To Them? The Bible: Who’s The Audience? The Bible: Chapter And Verse? Who Chooses The Actual Words In The Bible? When Words Aren’t Quite That Simple The Easy Bible Bible Stories: Were Noah And Moses Really Brothers? […]
Continue readingWhat Are You Doing?
Why are you doing whatever you’re doing? Last week we shared a small house for a short time with a lot of relatives. One interesting dynamic was repeated a number of times. An adult entered a room, saw a kid immersed in some activity, and asked, “What are you doing?” The question carried varying degrees […]
Continue readingRebirth
Happy first Monday of 2011! A new year provides a reminder of something that’s true every day for a follower of Jesus. This year’s initial word-of-the-week… Rebirth God offers a fresh start every day. The old stuff, the bad choices, the failures—they’re past, and because of Jesus’ sacrifice we get to set them aside and […]
Continue readingAnother Next Year
Happy New Year! Happy people make people happy — but you can’t make someone be happy. Gretchen Rubin It’s next year. Let’s work together to make it a great one. Today I want to re-post my favorite video of 2010. It reminds me of what I want 2011 to be about. The Butterfly Circus […]
Continue readingWell Done
HAPPY NEW YEAR! How old were you when you finally realized that nobody was watching? I grew up in a small town. It was literally impossible to get away with anything. If I messed up on the other side of town, my mom somehow found out before I got home. I developed this eerie sense […]
Continue readingHow To Find Faith
Have you ever noticed that some things are hard to get unless you already have them? We’re spending Christmas week on a snowy Midwestern farm. Yesterday the kids were preparing for a sledding expedition and one of the little guys realized his boots were in the car. A foot of icy, wet snow covered the […]
Continue readingLife Is Not A Game: A Free Ebook
I’m excited to hear your reactions to the ideas in my new (free) ebook titled LIFE IS NOT A GAME: Rules, rebellion, and freedom as a follower of Jesus. I talk to many folks who seem to view Christianity as a game with a laundry list of rules and restrictions. I think it’s a flawed […]
Continue readingFinishing And Beginning
What are you doing this week? This is a strange week in our cultural calendar. For many folks, today means back-to-work. For others it’s returning or exchanging, taking a break, or wrapping up family visits. Lots of emails generate automatic “out-of-the-office” messages during this week. I have two main tasks for this last week of […]
Continue readingAftermath
Happy Monday-after! An obvious choice for today’s word-of-the-week… Aftermath Do you feel a letdown after big events? We’re in a small farmhouse with grandparents, kids, grandkids, great-grandkids. Toys are broken, parts missing, movies already watched. Cultural Christmas is over. Now what? This week shouldn’t be just about driving home or preparing for the next party. […]
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