Church competition

When you stand shoulder to shoulder with other dads at your kids’ sporting events for hours at a time, you find all kinds of things to converse about. These are always pretty interesting to me, especially when talking with unchurched dads. They can ask pointed...

“And then…” instead of “The End”

One of my favorite sounds is my wife’s contented sigh whenever she finishes a great novel. After uttering that sigh, she’ll also sometimes express remorse that the story is over–the characters will remain forever on those pages, never to be heard...

Here’s the coffee mug they gave me at the Wormhole. My new mission...

Loaves and fishes are fine but I’ll take my wife’s pumpkin bread, thank you very...

It is good to make an end of movement, to come to a point of rest, a place of pause. There is some strange magic in activity, in keeping at it, in continuing to be involved in many things that excite the mind and keep the hours swiftly passing. But it is deadly magic; one is not wise to trust it with too much confidence.

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Devotional readings for week of March 10

March 10, Theme text, Matthew 26:36-46: To whom do you relate in this story, Jesus or the disciples? March 11, Luke 9:28-36: Jesus first took Peter, James, and John with him to a separate place and this scene is very different than the one in yesterday’s...