More Thoughts on Journaling
I love to journal. I love to sit down at the end of the day, open my notebook, and record specific thoughts that have been suggested to my mind that day, situations that I have learned from, insight from books I am reading, meditations on Scripture, or simply write about an enjoyable event and thank God for [...]
New Year’s Resolutions (V)
R. Kent Hughes, in his book, Disciplines of a Godly Man, has a good word to us as we consider the potential danger of taking on too much with our New Year’s resolutions: …we must also understand that we must not overcommit ourselves, especially if we are just beginning. The tendency, when truly challenged, is to say, [...]
New Year’s Resolutions (IV)
I like the famous story of the tortoise and the hare. The hare’s overly confident reliance on his speed captures my own tendency to live the Christian life in short, quick bursts, rather than living in slow, steady, constancy. The tortoise beat the hare, not because he was faster—he was much slower—but because he was [...]
New Year’s Resolutions (III)
Nicole Whitacre at Girltalk has some good thoughts on the question, “Is it possible to make a resolution this year and truly keep it?” She answers “yes,” if the resolutions we make are humble resolutions.
“I Just Want to Be Spontaneous!”
I just completed Don Whitney’s Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life. I certainly recommend it to you as a helpful guide in developing the spiritual disciplines in your own life. One thought I want to pass along comes toward the latter half of the last chapter where Whitney answers a common objection to disciplining oneself spiritually: [...]
Thoughts on Biblical Meditation
A few months ago I wrote an article entitled, Meditate on a single verse for the good of your soul. I would like to add to that subject some helpful quotes from Don Whitney’s book, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, to help us see the vital importance of Biblical meditation and the detriment of hurried disciplines. “Puritan [...]
Don’t Lose One Moment of Time
Currently I am taking some high school guys through the Resolutions of Jonathan Edwards. Each Friday we gather together in my office and talk about the resolutions we had read and meditated on the week prior. We are going at a slow pace – last time we read the first six resolutions, and this week [...]
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