Archive for the 'Soul' Category

Essential Ingredients to the Good Life?

This came from TimeOnline UK: "Do five simple things a day to stay sane, say scientists."

Connect
Developing relationships with family, friends, colleagues and neighbours will enrich your life and bring you support

Be active
Sports, hobbies such as gardening or dancing, or just a daily stroll will make you feel good and maintain mobility and fitness

Be curious
Noting the beauty of everyday moments as well as the unusual and reflecting on them helps you to appreciate what matters to you

Learn
Fixing a bike, learning an instrument, cooking – the challenge and satisfaction brings fun and confidence

Give
Helping friends and strangers links your happiness to a wider community and is very rewarding

[A curious omission under "connect."  Perhaps some connections are more essential than others.]

Overview of the Bible (PDF preview from ESV Study Bible)

Another nice PDF preview from the ESV Study Bible: Overview of the Bible: A Survey of the History of Salvation.

Reading the Bible

A helpful essay on reading the Bible (PDF download) from the ESV Study Bible (scheduled release date October 15, 2008).

Os Guinness Interview

Very, very good interview with Os Guiness by Mark Dever.  Os Guiness is always worth reading and hearing; a thinking Christian.

Quotable C. S. Lewis

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

C. S. Lewis

Nov 29, 1898 – Nov 22, 1963

More quotes at http://www.quotedb.com/authors/cs-lewis

When Things Are Going Wrong

Though the fig tree should not blossom,
nor fruit be on the vines,
the produce of the olive fail
and the fields yield no food,
the flock be cut off from the fold
and there be no herd in the stalls,
yet I will rejoice in the Lord;
I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
God, the Lord, is my strength;

Habakkuk 3:17-19a (ESV)

Don’t Ask For What Is

Never change God’s facts into hopes or prayers but simply accept them as realities, and you will find them to be powerful as you believe them.

H.W. Webb Peploe as quoted in “Streams in the Desert, Updated Edition”, August 5, by L. B. Cowman