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A Great Work: A Conversation With Nehemiah For People (Who Want To Be) Doing Great Works
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Anticipation: An Advent Reader
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Blog postBecky and Rich wanted to get some people who needed to hear stories about hope together with some people who needed to tell stories about hope.
When I write that sentence, I realize that means just about everyone. But you can’t invite everyone, not to the same living room at the same time.
The dream was to have some food together at tables. Then to listen to stories, 3 or 4, about 9 minutes each. And then to see what happened.
There would be no requests for funds, no l -
Blog postI write notes to myself all the time. On scraps of paper, on the backs of business cards, on waterproof paper in the shower. Sometimes they are thoughts while I’m listening to people speak. Sometimes they are notes to myself. I’ve been traveling and doing some speaking and thinking recently. Here are some of the notes I’ve made.
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“Presence not performance.”
“What’s not working as well as it could?”
“What we call ‘small churches’, God calls ‘church’.”
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Blog postNancy and Gail sat next to each other at a table last week. When Nancy told Gail we were going to be driving from Colorado to Indiana, Gail told her to check the weather forecast.
“My kids were coming for a retirement party,” Gail said. “But there’s a blizzard coming through Nebraska.”
We hadn’t thought to check the weather. So we did.
And we left for home a day earlier than planned. In that day, we had 40-mile-an-hour winds, snow, some icing on the road, a temperature -
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Blog postSarah delivered a neighbor’s table to Everyday Joe’s.
The first neighbor’s table was in Sarah’s backyard in Dallas. She wanted to get to know people. She had her dad build her a table. She had 500 people in her backyard that first summer. Her goal is to deliver tables to every state.
Everyday Joe’s has great coffee every day and a church that meets in the space on Sunday. Because it’s in the heart of Fort Collins, Colorado and because the people who are Everyday Joe’s want to -
Blog postShare one this weekend.
See you on Monday.
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Blog postWe drove from Fort Wayne, Indiana (808 ft) to Fort Collins, Colorado (5003 ft) through Cheyanne, Wyoming (6000 ft). The part from Fort Wayne to Omaha (1090) is not flat, but the gains and the losses mostly average each other out. The part from Omaha to Cheyanne is a gain of almost a mile in elevation, but spread across Nebraska, the gain isn’t much noticeable.
The drive from Fort Collins to Poudre Canyon Chapel (7333) is a gain of almost half a mile across 43 miles. The gain is notice -
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Blog postSeveral years ago, I took an overnight retreat at the old family farm. In the morning, I made coffee and sat on the front porch. I heard honking kind of bird sound from the field across the road. I walked across the yard until I could see the pair of sandhill cranes.
I was delighted with the opportunity to see and hear these two birds.
That’s the story that came to mind when Nancy gave me my word for writing this post. “Cranes,” she said.
She said it as we were driving -
Blog post“What’s the word,” I asked Nancy.
“You are writing?” she said. We had been debating whether or not to take the week off writing since we are spending the week traveling and visiting.
“Highway,” she said. And smiled.
We’d been staring at the Interstate for the past six hours. The word seemed obvious.
In my head, a song started to play. “Out in the highways and byways of life,” the first verse starts, “many are weary and sad.” It’s a song that picks up on a story -
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“What are you asking God?” I said.
I ask that question often when I’m in slow conversations with people. I don’t mean that I’m bored and so I toss out an odd question to shake things up. I mean the kind of conversation where I’ve left room for the other person to talk. And then we’ve conversed. And somehow the person has said, “I’m praying often.”
And I say, gently and curiously, “What are you asking God?”
Because I want to know. Sometimes I can tell God I agree -
Blog postGoing through a stack of paper at work revealed a proposal from a possible vendor. I remembered meeting the guy. He was nice – but his attitude turned me off a bit. He seemed fairly proud and may not have been a good listener. He didn’t really come across as understanding that I might know as much – or more – about his product as he did.
My memories of that encounter were summed up in a single word: ego.
But then I quickly remembered my strong tendency to point the finger -
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