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…
The Number He Stopped Calling
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…
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…
The Cousin Who Vouched
Get Up and Walk · Week 3 · Wednesday The Cousin Who Vouched He fumbled a major presentation a year ago. In front of leadership. The kind of meeting that decides which projects get funded for the next year. He…