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  • This week it hit me….

    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 I’ve been sharing these weekly nudges toward Biblical contentment for almost three years now. I’ve been writing on, thinking about, and wrestling with…

  • Encourage Each other through the storm….

    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 Several weeks ago I asked you – the Living Contentment community – if there were ways God has helped you through difficult times.…

  • Push you towards Contentment

    Push you towards Contentment

    Hi Reader, A few weeks ago i sent out a list of five biographies of people who had lived through some really tough things but found God’s contentment in the middle of it all. A few weeks before that I shared a list of five books that have really shaped how I understood Biblical Contentment.…

  • Good reminder……horrible comparison

    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 Wednesday afternoons I take a group of students over to the hospital in our town. Usually we spend our…

  • Encourage each other through the storm…

    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 Last week we looked at how the storms of life are not a sign that God has left you, but maybe what…

  • The Storm is not the problem

    The Storm is not the problem

    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 Jesus tells a story about two people who build houses. One builds on solid rock, and the other -…

  • Slow down there…

    Slow down there…

    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 REMEMBER… You can still get a free copy of my soon-to-be-released book on the life of Peter simply by…

  • Holding Grief & Joy Together + Book List #2

    Holding Grief & Joy Together + Book List #2

    Hi Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment Weekly. Here are your three contentment-related thoughts for today. Something for you to: read | do | pray READ THIS One of the hardest things about grief – is that it can feel all-encompassing. Mourning the loss of someone or something significant…

  • You should be thankful….

    Hi Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment Weekly. Here are your three contentment-related thoughts for today. Something for you to: read | do | pray READ THIS Quite a few times here at Living Contentment we’ve looked at the relation between gratitude and contentment. Today i heard a quote…

  • Living Contentment Book List

    Living Contentment Book List

    Hi Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment Weekly. This week there I will NOT help you focus on contentment with something to read | do | pray Instead, I want to share some words of others who have greatly impacted my understanding of deep, true, contentment. 5 Books that have Taught me about…