• For sale.  Baby shoes.  Never worn.  (by Ernest Hemingway)
•  Wasted day.  Wasted life.  Dessert please.
•  Best friend.  One winner.  Jealously kills.
•  Driving. Cow in road.  Hamburgers tonight.
• She loved again. I never did.
• Blind man dreams in full color
• Failed SAT. Lost scholarship.  Invented rocket

Not bad.

Recently the class in Joshua to Nehemiah at Oklahoma Christian University took up the task of writing six word stories that summarized the amazing books of 1 & 2 Chronicles.   Here is what they wrote:

• From God. Left God.   He forgives
• Adam is man, God is needed
• Kingdom roller coaster, awaits final touches
• God’s plan rejected, enslaved, Messiah anticipated
• Adam sinned, the rest is His-story
• Learning to cope.  Left with hope.
• Israel follows God, Israel repents, repeat.
• Genealogy. Blessed kings. Taken for granted.
• History of failure to present success.
• Sparksnotes of the Old Testament
• From, with, for, and by God
• The Old Testament, the sequel.
• The Old Testament strikes back.

 Not bad. 

What six words would you use to summarize Chronicles?

That’s an interesting question isn’t it? When you think about it the answer is pretty important because we all want to make God smile.

That’s what my newest book is about. It’s called Listening to His Heartbeat – What the Bible says about the Heart of God. It explores ideas from Scripture about the things that make God smile (and frown).

Listening to His Heartbeat was published in February 2009 by College Press.