by Chris Maxwell | Jul 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
(Thoughts from chapter twelve in Things We’ve Handed Down: Twelve Letters I Leave for You, based on the book A Long Obedience in the Same Direction by Eugene Peterson.) We live in a culture of instant everything. Quick clicks. Fast results. We want it...
by Chris Maxwell | Jul 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
(Thoughts from chapter eleven, Things We’ve Handed Down: Twelve Letters I Leave for You, based on the book, Why I Wake Early, by Mary Oliver.) Everything important doesn’t begin with a shout. Some begin with a whisper. A slow inhale. A quiet light spreading...
by Chris Maxwell | Jun 30, 2025 | Blog, Book Excerpts
(Thoughts from chapter ten of Things We’ve Handed Down: Twelve Letters I Leave for You, based on the book Wishful Thinking by Frederick Buechner.) There are writers whose words feel like home. Frederick Buechner is that kind of writer for me. Not just an author...
by Chris Maxwell | Jun 26, 2025 | Blog, Book Excerpts
(Thoughts from chapter nine of Things We’ve Handed Down: Twelve Letters I Leave for You, based on the book, Hope Has It’s Reasons, by Rebecca Pippert.) Hope. Not the flimsy kind of hope we tape onto our lives like a bandage....
by Chris Maxwell | Jun 24, 2025 | Blog, Book Excerpts
—thoughts from Chapter 8 in Things We’ve Handed Down:Twelve Letters I Leave for You (based on the book The Art of Being You by Bob Kilpatrick and Joel Kilpatrick). We often picture God like a mechanic—someone we call when things break down. The engine fails, the...
