Get Up and Walk · Week 5 · Tuesday The Morning Blessing Every morning before anyone else is up, he sits at the kitchen table with his Bible and his coffee. Just him and the quiet and the first light…
The Morning Blessing
Won Without a Word
Get Up and Walk · Week 5 · Monday Won Without a Word His wife is not where he is with God, and it has been the quiet ache of his marriage for years. He came back to faith hard…
Meet Nicodemus
Get Up and Walk · Week 5 · Sunday Meet Nicodemus Nicodemus had everything to lose. He was a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin, the ruling council. He was respected, established, careful, the kind of man who had…
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…
Meet Onesimus
Get Up and Walk · Week 4 · Sunday Meet Onesimus Onesimus was a slave. He ran. We do not know exactly what he took with him when he left. The letter that tells his story hints that he owed…