The Harvard Grant Study
In the fall of 2008, journalist and author, Joshua Wolf Shenk was given the rare privilege to spend a month reading the results of a 70 year longitudinal study of mental and physical well-being known as the “Grant Study.” Prior to this, the files had been kept locked up to all but a few researchers.…
Continue readingI Can’t Get No – Satisfaction
I find Solomon to be one of the most tragic figures in all of the Old Testament. Read about him in First Kings and particularly 1 Kings 10:1-11:13. He becomes king of the greatest kingdom in the world and is humble enough to ask God for wisdom in ruling over the kingdom. God granted him…
Continue readingConscience and Spirit
My conscience is broken. But then, so is yours. They are broken because our world is broken. When you grow up in a chicken coop you believe that a pecking order is natural. When you grow up in a world where Canadians are wealthy and Haitians are poor you believe that such a distribution of…
Continue readingSpiritual Inertia
“It is easier to do what you have done than what you have not, and especially than what goes contrary to what you have done. You tend to keep on doing what you have done; and the more so, the more you have done it. That is spiritual inertia.” (Willard, Dallas. Renovation of the Heart:…
Continue readingWorking Together for Good
And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. – Romans 8:28. I used to understand this passage something like this: “God looks after His people and nothing will go wrong for us.” Now that is a…
Continue readingRole Models
Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. 1 Timothy 4:12 (New International Version) One of my favourite parts of the Bible has always been 1 Timothy chapter four. When I was a young…
Continue readingItching Ears
For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear.2 Timothy 4:3 (New Living Translation). I have had a week where I have experienced itching ears and…
Continue readingDoing Good
Galatians 6:7-10, New International Version:Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing…
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