Joy is a mark of holy living.
The Institute for Ethics at Duke University did an online survey of about 1500 people as part of a project designed to measure the morality quotient of Americans. They asked
The Institute for Ethics at Duke University did an online survey of about 1500 people as part of a project designed to measure the morality quotient of Americans. They asked
If you want to lose your joy while giving, follow these seven way-too-easy steps: 1. Respond to every need as if it is your personal responsibility to meet it. Here
Solomon didn’t sugar-coat human existence. Often called “the wisest man who ever lived,” Solomon wrestled with the meaning of life. In his diary of that wrestling (the Book of Ecclesiastes),
In the book of John, beginning at chapter 13, there is an interesting shift in how Jesus deals with the people he calls “friend.” First, he does this radical thing
People are funny. Not you, of course, but people you know. Sociologists tell us that people tend to classify other people in one of three ways: scenery, machinery or people.
I have a goal. It is to do one regulation push-up. One. I was inspired to this goal by Olivia Perez-Breland who posted one day on Facebook that she’d accomplished
Our church has been in a season of remarkable transition in the last year or so — a season of trusting and waiting and listening and deepening. Change is not
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. –
Malcolm Gladwell has written a book called Blink, about the thousand decisions we make every day in the smallest slices of time — choices we make in split-seconds during a
“I tell you these things that my joy might be in you, so that your joy might be full.” – Jesus (John 15:11) Did you ever run across the old
When you’ve seen one, the next one becomes easier to spot. That’s how C. S. Lewis begins to describe (in his seminal work, Mere Christianity) a new kind of person —