Most people hate to be alone, they hate quietness and stillness, and most of all, they hate to think. There never was a person born who didn't hate the thought of deep thinking. But, as great minds soon find out, it is extremely rewarding.
Read moreLessons from Sherlock Holmes on How to Think, or The Mind Palace
We need people who can think their way out of a paper bag. Religion has been accused (and most of the time, rightly so) of giving brain-dead people lies couched in pleasing rhetoric. But that is not the sole fault of religion, that is the fault of evil people using religion to their gain.
Read moreLove that is Real
The purest honor you can pay someone--the purest love--is to seek to maximize God's glory in their life. If you haven't done that, you haven't loved, no matter how many butterflies you may feel.
Read moreUnbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Against all odds Louie and his friends survived. While so many lost hope, gave up, and simply let go of life, Louie hung on all the way to the end, never giving up hope.
Read moreOn Disciplines: An Introduction
Americans love life hacks--productivity hacks, organization hacks, success hacks--which tells us something amazing about ourselves: we want all the rewards without any of the work. And we actually believe that that's a thing. But real life doesn't work that way.
Read moreShadow of the Almighty by Elisabeth Elliot
The life of Jim Elliot is one of the most encouraging, compelling stories of modern Christianity. For many, he serves as the quintessential example of being on mission in the world. In college he wrote the phrase, “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose."
Read moreHow Should We Then Live? by Francis Schaeffer
Truth is absolute and it is pervasive. Every Christians worth their salt would believe that. But Schaeffer so astutely handles truth, in such revealing ways, that our faith is made sight in ways that can’t be anything but exhilarating and confidence-inspiring in all that is good, true, and beautiful in the world.
Read moreInformation Architecture: Organizing Chaos
We have a problem. We are drowning in data. We are anxious, and we spend most of our downtime glued to streams of information (from Twitter, Facebook, TV, games, etc.). We absolutely consume data, and yet as soon as we step away, we wonder why we're even alive. It's as if our basic, fundamental humanity is propped up by digital data streams.
Read moreYou Have an Obligation: Hebrews 5:11-14
The overall theme of Hebrews is the supremacy of Christ, but it isn't just that. It isn't a showroom where we are to come in and marvel at the glory of Christ as if in a museum, displayed behind bulletproof glass. We are to marvel at His wonderful work of mediation, to draw near to God, to meditate on Christ, to engage our minds in spiritual growth. In a word, we are to use the gifts Christ has given us and experience God because of the work He accomplished.
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