Gaining a heart of wisdom
It has been a few years since I first read Jeremiah Burroughs's classic The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, but now is the perfect time for a refresher, with Thanksgiving coming soon and my amnesia about God's goodness at its usual ridiculous level. Philippians 4:11 served as the basis for his argument: "I have learned,… Continue reading Are You Skilled in the Mystery of Contentment?
Secrets have a way of grabbing our attention, particularly if the secret comes with a promise of something good. If I claimed to know the secret location of a buried treasure or to possess the secret for permanent and effortless weight loss, the world would beat a path to my door. Paul claimed to know… Continue reading The Secret to Contentment in a Discontented World
This has been a year of complicated math. With one son having spent a snowy spring semester plowing through an online Technical Math II class (every bit as bad as it sounds) and another presently working his way through geometry, we have had some fairly intense conversations around operations and theorems, but it's also been… Continue reading Musings — November 2017
