Quality, Quantity, and Seeking the Other
It has become commonplace to talk about idolatry in Christian churches. Things which we place on an equal plane with God—be it money, success, comfort, fame, sex, or anything—are our…
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Our Incongruous Capacity for Joy
We are tiny, seemingly insignificant individuals on a planet swirling in the vastness of the universe. And yet, incredibly, we each have an incongruous capacity for joy. It seems we…
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How Misplaced Pleasures and Pride Can Change Us
Why do we act so poorly sometimes? Or to ask it another way, Why do we sin? Is it just that we randomly do wrong at times; or is it that something deeper is going—something with what we desire, crave, and love which makes us misstep? As we can all testify to, the answer is clearly the latter. It is from our desires that wickedness comes (Luke 6:45). The Bible explains that sin resides in the desires, not just or mainly in what we do (1 Timothy 6:9-10). But what does this look like in real life?…
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Learning to Deny the ‘Shiny Wrappers’
Erik Raymond, in his book Chasing Contentment, spends a chapter teaching us where discontentment originally entered the earth, and where it now occurs for all of us…
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4 Characteristics of Contentment
What is contentment? Is it actually possible? What does it look like (and not look like)? These are questions I have always wanted to dig deeper into. Who doesn’t want to know how to feel more constantly at peace and more consistently content? So, as a result, I have started reading Erik Raymond’s book Chasing Contentment. In this work, he leans on the Bible and other impactful church thinkers to help us see what contentment is…
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