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Resting Busyness – Grace to Sabbath
School is out for summer and for many, summer is the season for family vacations, and slowing the pace of life down. As a kid, I loved my annual two month sabbatical. My summers were filled with epic bike rides, camping, exploring the forests and orchard, building forts and pear fights with my buddies. Days were filled with building homemade Continue Reading...Read more -
When Dirt isn’t Dirty
I was at a gathering a couple of weeks ago, and one of the folks facilitating chose dirt as a metaphor. He rode that metaphor pretty hard as he reminded us repeatedly that we are dirty by nature and because dirty isn’t good we needed Jesus to make us clean. Sometimes, when we ride a metaphor too far, we can Continue Reading...Read more -
Careless Words – Stop the Carnage
My 12-year-old tells us of how at school there is a practice of "burns". Burns are insults intended (so they say) to be humorous. They make a sharp comment, someone feels stupid, hurt or embarrassed and the other kids laugh saying 'You just got burned!" And sometimes, after a scathing burn, they follow up with "just kidding" like that is to Continue Reading...Read more
