Author: chartreusian
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It’s not either / or
Hi Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment – your weekly nudge towards a life of Biblical contentment. Here are today’s three contentment-related things for you to read | do | pray READ THIS Sometimes the thing that can wrestle away our contentment is our worry. It’s the disappointment, dissolution, our heartache. The pain of betrayal, the…
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Contentment in Exile
Hi Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment – your weekly nudge towards a life of Biblical contentment. Here are today’s three contentment-related things for you to read | do | pray READ THIS Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the theme of exile. People living away from their true ‘home.’ This weekend I’m preaching on…
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Is what you’re consuming making you discontent?
Hi Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment – your weekly nudge towards a life of Biblical contentment. Here are today’s three contentment-related things for you to read | do | pray READ THIS We all know what we consume has a massive impact on our health. What we eat is likely the single greatest factor affecting…
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Did you WANT to be a farmer?! – Discontentment of missing your call.
Did you want to be a farmer?! Hi Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment – your weekly nudge towards a life of deep, true Biblical contentment. We’re continuing our series on sources of discontentment, today looking at the discontentment that comes from feeling like you missed your calling in life. READ THIS Imagine this situation, which…
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Where are you God? 1-Discontentment is forgetting God is near
Where are you God? Hey Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment – your weekly nudge towards a life of Biblical contentment We’re currently revisiting some causes of discontentment, so if you’ve been reading this newsletter for several years some of these might sound familiar. READ THIS Yesterday I sat down to watch the sun rise over…
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Why Can’t I Stop failing – – Discontentment is Feeling you need to measure up
Hey Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment, your weekly nudge towards a life of Biblical contentment. We’re currently revisiting some causes of discontentment, so if you’ve been reading this newsletter for several years, some of these may sound familiar. READ THIS There’s a good chance every person has had some feeling of God / the gods…
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You’re a failure –
Hey Reader, Welcome to your weekly dose of Biblical contentment. Here are your three contentment-related thoughts for today. Something for you to : read | do | pray READ THIS I can still remember the day, the afternoon, the moment even, very vividly. We were living in France, where I was completing my Ph.D. One…
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I’m just asking for what is fair… Discontentment is Entitlement {Pt II}
Hey Reader, Welcome back to Living Contentment – your weekly nudge towards real, deep contentment through something contentment-related to read, do, and pray. We’re currently revisiting some causes of discontentment. If you have been reading this newsletter for several years – you’ll probably remember some of these. READ THIS For those of us raised with…
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I Deserve this….. : Discontentment is Entitlement
Hey Reader, Welcome back to Living Contentment – as always the intent is to give you a nudge towards real, deep contentment with something contentment-related to read, to do, and to pray. We’re currently revisiting some causes of discontentment. If you have been reading this newsletter for several years – you’ll probably remember some of…
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Submitting and Admitting – Discontentment is Pride {pt. II}
Submitting (to God) and Admitting (you may be wrong) Hey Reader, Welcome back to Living Contentment – your weekly nudge towards real, deep contentment with something contentment-related to read, to do, and to pray. We’re currently revisiting causes of discontentment. If you have been reading this newsletter for several years – you’ll probably remember some…