by 12tasks | Mar 9, 2023 | Jack Taylor
Tondu, it’s interesting that you asked me to write to you about life in the hard times. I read through Psalm 63 this morning in my devotions and it is about exactly that. Life when things get hard. In fact, it seems a lot of the psalms I’ve read are about that. Life...
by 12tasks | Jan 26, 2023 | Jack Taylor
A lot of things can happen in the course of a year. Both for you and for your son or daughter. You can do your best to lay out a strategic plan for the 12 Tasks with one task a month or with a series of progressive challenges carefully spaced out. Then, something...
by 12tasks | Jan 26, 2023 | Jack Taylor
My grandson Anderson and my son Richard just ran a half marathon in the heat of Portland for one of Anderson’s 12 tasks. Richard had tried to practice in Rwanda during his month-long teaching time there but he was clearly dragging as they passed the 12 mile mark....
by 12tasks | Dec 6, 2022 | Jack Taylor
A few days ago, I stood at the wailing wall in Jerusalem watching devout worshippers bobbing and chanting before the last known remnant of Herod’s Temple. Jews and Gentiles alike stood in this place and contemplated how faith ought to be expressed to gain approval...
by 12tasks | Oct 17, 2022 | Jack Taylor
I had to smile when I heard the young preacher from the prairies talk about his sense of coming into my area of the country. He had come from a place where you could see a dog running fifty miles away. Now, he stood gazing up at whitecapped peaks which tickled the...
by 12tasks | Aug 15, 2022 | Jack Taylor
I am a fan of grace. There are times in my life when I knew that talking about grace wasn’t going to be enough. Grace is undeserved favor and nothing I could do in a given situation was going to change the way I’d blown it. I’ve needed grace with my wife, my...
