Often we imagine that we will work hard until we arrive at some distant goal, and then we will be happy. This is a delusion. Happiness is the result of a life lived with purpose. Happiness is not an objective.... Continue Reading →
Give me the man around whom the children come, like flies around a honey-pot: they are first-class judges of a good man…the children's friend is one who will be worth knowing. C.H. Spurgeon, Lectures to my Students
George Vaillant conducted one of the longest-duration longitudinal studies in history. Over 75 years he has studied a group of almost 300 Harvard grads to identify what contributes to health and happiness. A parallel study of almost 500 disadvantaged youth... Continue Reading →
Dietrich Bonhoeffer gives four concrete examples of what fellowship actually means.
Some exciting resources I've discovered in the study of Evangelical spirituality
I said to the man, who stood at the gate of the year 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown' And he replied, 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand... Continue Reading →
While every Christian journey is unique, many of us pass through a similar series of stages.
Three things the Lord has taught me about waiting during a season of discernment.
The Seven Deadly Virtues: respectability, childishness, mental timidity, dullness, sentimentality, censoriousness, and depression of spirits. Dorothy Sayers, Letters to a Diminished Church
The Magpie 