Category: discernment

  • Slow to Speak, Slow to Anger

    We have it on good authority that Socrates believed that the unexamined life was not worth living.  I’m not sure he was right or wrong, but I am sure that our unexamined conversations can be very dangerous. I’m honestly not sure, when I think about it, that our conversations are usually menat to communicate anything…

  • Bit of a monster post today. There are lots of interesting things going on: Brexit: Today the European Union loses one state as the UK leaves. Psychology:  professor claims humans hardwired to dismiss facts inconvenient to their worldview. Writing: Why is so much Christian writing, er, um, bland? Free Speech: John Stackhouse criticizes UK cities…

  • Natural Disaster: A volcano erupts suddenly, while tourists are on a New Zealand island. Discernment: John Piper opines on competence and its value for discerning God’s will for your life.  Culture: In a very bad idea, I Am Jesus is a new game under development.  Politics: David Brooks explains why he rejected socialism. 

  • I can be an idiot, but that doesn’t mean I *am* on every point… and I can learn.

  •   Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved…