The metaphor of a “rat race” is often used to describe a lifestyle of incessant work and busyness to try and achieve something that is inherently unachievable. It's pressure-filled, busy, anxious, and ill-fitting. No one who is living a rat race would say they are living their best life. But why is there a rat race at all? What empowers it? Why do we participate in it?
Read MoreHow are we to "bloom where we're planted" as resident aliens in this spiritual city of Babylon? What does a flourishing life look like in the midst of Empire? Hebrews 13 answers that question with some very practical advice.
Read MoreYou are called to bloom and flourish - even in Babylon. But that does not happen by becoming like Babylon, for that world is passing away. What is required is something much more countercultural.
Read MoreAccording to Nietzsche, we have arrived at a place where we no longer need what the idea of God gives us. However, as demonstrated by the last 100 years, we're terrible at filling the void left by a "dead God."
Read MoreHow are you with instruction manuals? Do you love them? Hate them? In the book of Proverbs, the author frequently visits the theme of God's guidance along the path to flourishing, and chapter three offers six sets of instructions to live by if we want a flourishing life.
Read MoreWe often prefer a miserable past to an unknown future with God.
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