Day 27: Persevering Prayer
The world is taking its time, spinning slowly on its 24 hour axis but we, we are hampsters on a wheel panting out of breath. And in my mom/minister/writer wheel, the first thing that always flies out I’m embarrassed to…
Day 26: Wedding Favors, Eucharist with Love
She walked down the aisle shining, her heart naked, shimmering, luminous… and he, forgetting to wait, forgetting to stand still…mesmerized, walked out to greet her. The universe is not kind this side of Eden and it makes cripples of all…
Day 24: The Key to my Conversion and Possibly Theirs?
There were a few years around college I couldn’t stomach Paul. He had been thrown into my face too many times. And I couldn’t hear the Old Testament without questions about God’s goodness staring at me. But, Jesus? I was…
Day 23: Not Dousing Curiosity
This is a point that I, a pitcher pourer, am trying to discern and one I could not have made better: “As we have conversations with curious people, we should be sensitive to what level of interest they actually have. Tuvya Zaretsky, a…
Day 22: Second Threshold, from Complacency to Curiosity
We are traveling through five thresholds using the book, i once was lost, trying to understand the way people today come to faith. We stopped and learned around the first threshold, From Mistrust to Trusting a Christian and now on…
Day 21: inspiration from a mother
She filled her prayer closet with a grid of sticky notes, covered the walls with God’s promises. This is unconditional love, cross-shaped evangelism if I’ve ever seen it. This mother’s story cannot help but inspire you. If you have 10…
Day 20: How Does Love Heal?
The indoor-sanctioned rubber ball left his foot and I could see right where it was headed, like he was doing target practice. Caedmon has serious power for an eight year old and it slammed into the glass, sent it scraping across…
Day 19: Feasting on Sabbath Time
On Sundays during Lent, we slow to a stop. No more working, no more spinning, just rest. Deep breaths leaning in. Because He stopped and knows we need to too. So come to the well to be refilled, and don’t…
Day 18: Knee Jerk Reactions to Mistrust
You friend, if you are like me, you struggle with this too. We knee-jerk away from our “persons” when we encounter blatant mistrust, like in the first threshold moving from mistrust to trusting a Christian. Get a copy of a…
Day 17: Threshold 1, Trusting a Christian
I Once Was Lost: What Postmodern Skeptics Taught Us About Their Path to Jesus by Don Everts and Doug Schaupp wipes away the confusion of good news bearing in today’s suspicious environment. Skepticism is the undercurrent with a hefty helping…