Wait

Happy Monday. I hope your new week is beginning with the same sort of glorious weather that’s greeting us in beautiful Colorado. This week’s word-of-the-week is … WAIT We live in a culture of urgency. It’s all about pressure and hurry, get-it-done, checking stuff off the list as quickly and efficiently as possible. If it’s […]

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A Very Big Young Man

Happy Saturday! I spend a lot of time and energy looking for excuses. I have a couple of pretty good ones, and I’m actually pretty good at spinning them from thin air. Then I encounter someone like Zach Lipson and I remember to stop whining and get on with it. Enjoy the story. And then go and […]

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Theology Or Story?

We want simple clear and unambiguous bullet points. And God tells us a life. Jon Swanson Have you ever thought that the bible isn’t a typical theology book? Humans publish lots of theology books. Entire colleges exist to teach theology. You can study all sorts of theological systems and traditions. Very smart people earn advanced […]

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Reflecting Jesus

What do you reflect to the people you encounter? I read an interesting study comparing two classes of fifth graders. One class heard several messages about the problems associated with litter. They saw pictures of ugly, littered landscapes and wrote essays about the importance of not littering. The other class heard from a variety of […]

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Are You Going?

Where are you going? I once knew a guy who went on a road trip with the express purpose of traveling rather than arriving. He was determined not to be driven by a destination, so whenever there was a choice of which way to go he turned left. I suspect it was a politically motivated […]

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Defiance

Welcome to the beginning of a new week and another word-of-the-week. This week’s word is … DEFIANCE For me, defiance carries a negative connotation. Back in the day, I had a t-shirt that proclaimed DEFY AUTHORITY. Every kid’s dream, right? Except that I never really did it, at least in any way that actually mattered. […]

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