In my previous post, On Asking for Wisdom Part One, I shared a bit on how and why I’ve typically sought wisdom, particularly through prayer. As an aside: I somehow neglected to mention other forms of asking for wisdom which has always been particularly important to me: via other people’s insight and experiences. Personal experience, […]
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The other day during my morning run, I decided to pray for wisdom. Actually, I pray for wisdom a LOT. In fact, I pray for wisdom so often that the other day it occurred to me if I even still knew what wisdom was. You know when you say a word over and over and […]
Our church recently took part in a collective “media fast” to kick off the New Year. The challenge for the week was to give up various forms of digital and/or social media that tend to take up significant chunks of our time. “Media” could include television, Netflix, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, iPhone game apps, etc. The […]
Several years ago, I read the book “I Saw Satan Fall Like Lightning” by French literary critic Rene Girard. Girard has a fascinating theory that human beings learn desire by imitation. In a recent Gospel Coalition article, Joe Carter explains this concept this way: “Just as an infant learns to speak by imitating the language […]
This morning, I read an excellent blog by Dr. Chuck deGroat, entitled “so you think you can dance?”. He has started a series on relationship, community and mission. I’ve found that there are two online sources for me that consistently (and weirdly) always align with where I happen to be spiritually whenever I sporadically check […]
