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Shorter Writings
Mission Unlikely... unless
As I write this, my understanding of the mission Jesus gave his followers is: make disciples. In other words, “Follow me, and help others follow me.”…
Crippling Misunderstanding
I continue to find this crippling misunderstanding among disciples today. It is the notion that to say there are core teachings that make up the…
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting for the significance
Waiting for the “thing” to happen
To make life ring, to sing, with purpose
To wake very morning automatically ALIVE…
Dry Bones
I see them everywhere… all around my city… my state… dry bones. Dry bones that once were connected to each other, when they weren’t dried out, but…
Age
Age is just a number... a number that gets bigger every year, then stops. Between now and that stop, make every moment count. That's how you do more…
Clear About What Matters
One way or another, we will all face the hard reality of what truly matters to us. We can either do that now, while we have time to do something…
Time
Our days are not infinite. They seem to be when we are very young, but we eventually realize this is not the case. That realization first registers…
Mutual Respect
There is a certain amount of respect we should show to other people, just because they are people. Yes, there are practical reasons for this, such…
Real Conversation
When was the last real conversation you had? I mean where you talked, and they listened; then, they talked and you listened? Was it that you and they…
Humanskill
Humans kill his own humanity
Thinking they’ve silenced him
They think this is the end
God foretold so long ago
The Man would come,
Freedom; behold
…
Spiritual Orphans
…bored, bloated and don’t know why… Christians in name with no discipline and therefore no growth to speak of… “disciples” with no discipline… when…
Perspective Matters
This afternoon, two things happened:
The university lost their first game of the season. We just received word that a friend took his own life…
How To Waste Your Life
Apparently many humans are intent on wasting the life they have been given. This brief collection of concepts is intended to help them (us?) be more…
I Leak
Yes, I leak. I get filled with purpose and passion, then I leak. What is a limitless supply of focus and energy on Saturday becomes a creek by…
* Mart-ification
In America today there is such a constant stream of blah, blah, blah… noise in our eyes, our ears, everywhere we look, even at home with TV and…
Desire
I walked into the small study where he sat, a man well into his eighties, a full head of white hair, plus other typical signs of many years of life…