the mystery inside

On 8 November, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Less than a month after being freed from 69 days locked a mile underground in Chile, Edison Peña trotted across the finish line to the New York Marathon in Central Park. Today the New York Times wrote this about Peña:

After fighting through knee pain to jog across the finish line [...]

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ahead

On 8 October, 2010 · 5 Comments

It’s easy to lose hope.

Which is why I’m so challenged by the story of the man who came to Jesus and asked him to heal his on in John 4. It’s one of those passages I keep going back to.

The first time I read it I was amazed at the man’s [...]

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brave enough to buy the field

On 17 September, 2010 · 8 Comments

So there is this man who sells everything he has to buy an empty field.

And it’s insanity in an agrarian culture like the ancient near east – where the proven quality of a field can make or break you.

But he knows something they don’t.

The Kingdom of heaven is like a treasure [...]

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