by Alan Fadling | Jul 4, 2023 | Life, Prayer, Spiritual Formation
I’ve often shared the story of my first experience of solitude and silence at the beginning of 1990. It was led by one of my mentors, Wayne Anderson, as part of a class I was taking at Fuller Seminary. I tell a little of that story in An Unhurried Life (see p. 20ff),...
by Claude Alexander | Jun 13, 2023 | Habits, Life, Ministry
Blog post adapted from Necessary Christianity by Claude Alexander, Jr. Adapted from Chapter 5, “I Must Be Diligent” The life of Jesus reveals that God’s call and God’s claim on the believer’s life are imperative in nature and not simply indicative. Hence,...
by Alan Fadling | May 23, 2023 | Life, Prayer, Spiritual Formation
It’s summertime, and here in Southern California it begins to get rather hot. And I find myself thirsty a lot. I’ll get out and cycle 20 miles and come back parched. It makes me think of these psalm lines: Like a deer that longs for springs of water, so my soul longs...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jun 10, 2021 | Happiness, Life
The word happiness has a fascinating etymology. Its root, hap-, appears in such words as perhaps and haply, but principally in happen. In some peculiar way, therefore, happiness has been seen as having something to do with the way things happen—or to give the matter...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jul 30, 2020 | Death, Life, Sermon Illustrations
An ending can be either good or bad. There are excellent novels that held my attention and moved me for hundreds of pages only to end in a way that made me regret reading the story. Sadly, the same can be said of many “good” lives. It is not enough to live well and...
