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  • The Life You Already Have- Contentment Challenge 2024

    The Life You Already Have- Contentment Challenge 2024

    2024 CONTENTMENT CHALLENGE The Life You Already Have Today is New Year’s Day – when millions of people will start their RESOLUTIONS. Which most keep for a few weeks. Lose weight.Save MoneyExercise moreGet better gradesGet a new jobSave up for that new car Every year on January 1st, people RESOLVE to make themselves better. To…

  • The Contentment of Shepherds – Contentvent 4

    The Contentment of Shepherds – Contentvent 4

    Hi Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment Weekly. Here are your three contentment-related thoughts for today. Something for you to: read | do | pray ​ Contentvent #4: Contentment with who we are – like the Shepherds READ THIS One peculiarity of the Christmas story is the cast of characters. If we examine any random manger…

  • Happiness to the World, the Good has Come – ContentVent 3

    Happiness to the World, the Good has Come – ContentVent 3

    Hi Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment Weekly. Here are your three contentment-related thoughts for today. Something for you to: read | do | pray ​ Contentvent #3: Happiness to the World, the Good has Come READ THIS It’s that time of year again when the word “joy” suddenly becomes part of everyday language. After the…

  • PTSD, Advent & Family Road Trips….ContentVent 2

    PTSD, Advent & Family Road Trips….ContentVent 2

    Hi Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment Weekly. Contentvent. Here are your three ADVENT-contentment-related thoughts for today. Something for you to: read | do | pray Contentvent – is what we’re calling this advent series on Contentment in the Advent season. During these four weeks of Advent that lead up to Christmas, we’re re-examining the same…

  • CONTENTVENT 1 – I HATE waiting

    CONTENTVENT 1 – I HATE waiting

    Hi Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment Weekly. Here are your three contentment-related thoughts for today. Something for you to: read | do | pray Correct – today is NOT Thursday (don’t worry, you didn’t miss 4 days) – but I wanted to send out this edition to get us on track for the 4 weeks…

  • Just FYI – this one is tough.

    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 These past few months we’ve been preaching through the book of Philippians here at Rift Valley Academy, which is an absolute treasure of…

  • Giving Thanks on Thanksgiving

    Giving Thanks on Thanksgiving

    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 Today is Thanksgiving in the US – and while only about half of you in the LIving Contentmeht community are in the US…

  • 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.…