Category Archives: relationships

Murder on the internet

Posted on May 21, 2021 by jwfisch

I am preparing for Os Guinness to be our guest again on BlogTalkRadio in a few weeks by reading his newest book, The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai’s Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom. It’s a fascinating study of … Continue reading →

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Till we have faces

Posted on May 18, 2021 by jwfisch

Till We Have Faces is a novel by C.S. Lewis which is a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche. It is a title that has new meaning since we have been isolated in a pandemic for over a … Continue reading →

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Hugging is back

Posted on April 16, 2021 by jwfisch

When Chandler and I visited Anne Marie Ritchie last summer in Idaho, we held our arms open to each other six feet apart and said, “Hug, hug.” It was terrible. With Anne Marie’s French heritage, there should have been not … Continue reading →

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OK in Christ

Posted on March 25, 2021 by jwfisch

As if we needed one more reason to be divided. On top of huge chasms in politics, conservative and liberal philosophies, racial divides, and the ever-widening gulf between the haves and the have-nots, we now have a generational divide fueled … Continue reading →

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Light candle in your heart

Posted on March 22, 2021 by jwfisch

And his smile will light a candle That will burn in your heart. This will be my final journaling from the road with Chandler. It has been a monumental journey with incredible encounters along the way, but yesterday’s three-hour meeting … Continue reading →

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California Highway 36

Posted on March 19, 2021 by jwfisch

Today, we leave the town of Red Bluff, California and travel west for what our GPS says is roughly three and a half hours on California Highway 36, a little-known piece of the state highway system that passes through the … Continue reading →

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Knowing what you don’t know

Posted on March 17, 2021 by jwfisch

Chandler is a leader. He may not have all the tools, or know how to use them, but that doesn’t matter. He leads anyway by sheer will. I am also constantly surprised by how much he knows. He will enter … Continue reading →

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Zooming with Jesus

Posted on January 27, 2021 by jwfisch

For where two or three gather together in my name, I am there among them. Matthew 18:20 I met with a fellow pastor yesterday for about 45 minutes on a zoom call. I must admit, this pandemic is changing a … Continue reading →

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Virtual relationships

Posted on January 21, 2021 by jwfisch

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for man to be alone.” Genesis 2:18 Aside from the devastating consequences of sickness and death that this pandemic has wreaked on the world is something even more widespread that has … Continue reading →

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Loving (when it’s hard to do)

Posted on January 11, 2021 by jwfisch

If you read our latest communique, “The Bridge to 2021,” you are aware that we had to let everyone across that bridge from 2020 into the New Year. Nothing we could do about it. Sorry about that. We had no … Continue reading →