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  • Many Bad Works – One Good Fruit – Living Contentment Weekly

    Many Works – One Fruit 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 Most of us are familiar with the passage from the Apostle Paul’s letter to the church in Galatia: But the…

  • Remember…..you will die -Living Contentment

    Remember…..you will die -Living Contentment

    Remember – You Will Die 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 Memento Mori Latin – “Remember death” Not exactly a pick-me-up St Jerome – Caravaggio 1605 But to be…

  • what about the hard times?

    what about the hard times?

    Hi Reader, This is not a regular Living Contentment -but just a quick update. As many of you know, a very personal struggle for my family and me has been (still is) trying to find God’s goodness, mercy, justice….and trying to find contentment as we suffered a violent, armed attack in our home…

  • Don’t know what you have….

    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 They say ‘You don’t know what you have… until it’s gone.’ OK fine – I recall hearing “don’t know what you got ’till it’s gone” ……

  • Give it up!

    READ THIS One of the great things about being here at Rift Valley Academy, is there are lots of opportunities to speak in chapel, Sunday mornings, devotions, etc. All that time just forces me to spend time in the word – and come up with something that seems like it would be helpful and beneficial…

  • Abide – not just refill.

    READ THIS Last week we looked at Gas-Station devotions, that approach that sees ‘some time with God’ as ample to fill you up with what you need until you run out and need him again. But there is an approach where the same thing – daily devotions – can be life-brining, meaningful, and helpful throughout the day. …

  • Fill ‘er up – The Discontentment of Gas-Station devotions

    READ THIS More than once I’ve been told to prioritize morning devotions because I need to ‘fill my spiritual tank.’ The risk of skipping them is that I may not have enough to make it through the day.  What a horrible metaphor. You fill your tank with gas, put the nozzle back, and drive away…

  • East-African Aquatic Widow-Maker

    READ THIS so sensible UK regulations forbid electrical outlets in a bathroom, and lights have a pull-cord so you don’t even physically touch the switch  so very resonable If there is an outlet, it’s a special shaver-only outlet with a small dedicated transformer built into it with restrictions on its power use, and it only…

  • Stop Pretending to be the Ambassador

    READ THIS After Susan and I had been married one year, we moved to Kazakstan – the Central Asian, former Soviet republic. That same year, Susan’s older sister lived in Japan and we thought it would be nice to get together for Christmas. I found cheap tickets for her to fly to us via Moscow.…

  • Thanks….but I think I know what’s best

    READ THIS Most of the time we are SURE what we want, and we’re pretty sure we know what’s good for us.  Take a random 12-year-old boy and ask them what they want to drink. In some parts of the world – the answer may be Mountain Dew.  Never mind that one bottle contains a…