Greg McKeown in his book Essentialist: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less gives three truths that will help an individual live a more fruitful and streamlined lifestyle: Understand you have a choice. You choose how to spend your energy and time. The prevalence of noise. Almost everything is noise and very few things are exceptionally valuable. Therefore, you…
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Greg McKeown in Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less discusses the often neglected discipline of sleep that I found interesting and wanted to pass on. The Performance Killer by Charles A. Czeisler (Professor of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School) explains how sleep deprivation undermines high performance. He likens sleep deficit to drinking too much alcohol, explaining that pulling…
Greg McKeown in Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less discusses the often neglected discipline of sleep that I found interesting and wanted to pass on. The Performance Killer by Charles A. Czeisler (Professor of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School) explains how sleep deprivation undermines high performance. He likens sleep deficit to drinking too much alcohol,…
People never say, please listen I’m about to share a significant moment in my past OR please listen I’m about to reveal the motives of why I think a particular way or why I did something — Paul David Tripp For that reason, a person needs to be skilled in asking questions in order to…
This year I’m going to be much more intentional with my time and one way I’m doing that is planning out my reading list 3 months in advance. Here’s what I’ve selected for January – March: January 2016 Generational IQ (helping me think through making decisions in the church that has, for the first time in…
The values of Jesus-followers versus the values of the world as found in The Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5:2-11: Poor in spirit, humble proud, competent, self-reliant Mourn, sad over sin pleasure-seeking, carefree Hungry for God,…
What stops you from changing? Whom or what do you blame for your sin? Do you ever hear yourself thinking or saying one of the following? They provoke me. If they’d only help me or love me more. I take after my family. It’s the way I am. People don’t understand what it’s like for…
Posted By Don Carson On March 5, 2014 @ 5:00 am Exodus 17; Luke 20; Job 35; 2 Corinthians 5 THINGS ARE NEVER QUITE AS GOOD as they might be. Or if for a brief moment they are as good as you can imagine them, if for a while you seem to suck in the nectar of…
Here’s a good word from R. C. Sproul in Intimate Marriage. In every single marriage that ends in disaster, some stupid decisions were made with respect to God’s regulations. If God’s regulations were followed scrupulously, there would not only be no divorce, there would be no unhappy marriage. To violate the regulations of God is not…
Theology Along the Way 