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Honesty with emotions
Jesus isn’t nearly as scared of honesty as we are. We hide how we really feel from God, we hide […]
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Meditators
Tim Keller “Persons who meditate become people of substance who have thought things out and have deep convictions, who can […]
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Multitasking is a myth
One of the reasons I’m so pharisaical about my phone, email, and social media is because I’ve come to realize […]
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Keep your phone off until…
Keep your phone off until after your morning quiet time. The stats are ominous: 75 percent of people sleep next […]
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Slowing
Ortberg defined slowing as “cultivating patience by deliberately choosing to place ourselves in positions where we simply have to wait.” […]
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Have nothing…
The English designer William Morris offered a good rule of thumb: “Have nothing in your houses that you do not […]
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Success?
It hits me like a freight train: in America you can be a success as a pastor and a failure […]
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Carefree unconcern
As Richard Foster noted, “a carefree unconcern for possessions” is what “marks life in the kingdom.” John Mark Comer – […]
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Shopping
The French sociologist Jean Baudrillard has made the point that in the Western world, materialism has become the new, dominant […]
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Bastard Sabbath
Eugene Peterson had a name for a day off; he called it a “bastard Sabbath.” The illegitimate child of the […]