Get Up and Walk · Week 5 · Saturday Recap · Series Finale The Silent Soldier Five weeks ago we started this series with five men the world would have counted out, and one promise running underneath all of them:…
The Silent Soldier
The Walk Back
Get Up and Walk · Week 4 · Saturday Recap The Walk Back I have spent this week sitting with Onesimus. The runaway slave who could have stayed safe in Rome, useful to Paul, far from the master he had…
The Number He Stopped Calling
Get Up and Walk · Week 4 · Friday The Number He Stopped Calling He and his brother have not spoken in four years. It started over their father’s estate, the way these things so often do. Money, and a…
Leave the Gift at the Altar
Get Up and Walk · Week 4 · Thursday Leave the Gift at the Altar He has been worshipping around it for three years. There is a man he had a falling out with. A close friend, once. The kind…
Charge It to My Account
Get Up and Walk · Week 4 · Wednesday Charge It to My Account Six months ago he let a colleague take the blame for something that was half his fault. A project missed a major deadline. In the meeting…
The Knock
Get Up and Walk · Week 4 · Tuesday The Knock He lost his temper at his sixteen-year-old yesterday. It was not a big thing, as these things go. The kid had left the garage door open overnight again, after…
The Letter on the Counter
Get Up and Walk · Week 4 · Monday The Letter on the Counter Fifteen years ago he said something cutting to his wife in front of her parents. He barely remembers the fight that led up to it. He…
Get Mark
Get Up and Walk · Week 3 · Saturday Recap Get Mark I have spent this week sitting with John Mark. The young man who quit his first mission. The young man who caused the fight that split the most…
The Chair Pulled Up
Get Up and Walk · Week 3 · Friday The Chair Pulled Up He burned a bridge with his small group two years ago. It was not one big thing. It was a series of small things over a hard…
Feed My Sheep
Get Up and Walk · Week 3 · Thursday Feed My Sheep He stopped praying about seven years ago. It was not a dramatic break. Nothing happened to him to make him angry at God. He did not have a…