Treat Me Like A Two-Year-Old
To read the Alain de Botton quote DZ mentions, go here. To read the Will Willimon quote DZ mentions, go here.
When You Are Down To Nothing, God Is Up To Something
Happy All Saint’s Sunday! You may not be aware that today is that day, or that such a day exists. Christmas and Easter you know,…
What Do You Want?
In this reading from Mark a blind man named Bartimaeus shows us all something important about ourselves. Not so much that we’re all blind in…
Diving into the Pool
I had the opportunity to go to Texas for a week of Continuing Ed at Camp Allen. Although we had many class opportunities, I like…
Who Is The Rich Young Ruler?
This morning we have the fairly well known story of what has come to be called the “rich, young, ruler”, although in our version from…
Pluck It Out
I was sick in bed for almost two weeks with a weird infection, which gave me lots of time to binge watch, binge read and…
Betrayers and the Betrayed
“The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise…
From CrossFit to the Cross
You’ve probably heard Groucho Marx’s famous quip that he would never belong to a club that would have him as a member. There is actually…
The Healing Power of His Love
This reading from Mark offers a couple accounts of individuals and their loved one in a state of desperation, so desperate that they take to…
Quick to Listen, Slow to Anger
To read the Faulkner quote Dave mentions, go here. To hear the story about the Craigslist Confessional, go here. To watch the Aaron Stark video,…
What’s In Your Toolbox?
You may know how much I like the magazine Popular Mechanics. This month they have a great article called How to Make Anything and it…