I came across the following observation arising out the biblical motif of the book of Judges: “Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” Israel was not beset by lawlessness. People were not paying no attention to laws. They did not see themselves as lawbreakers. Israel was beset by anarchy. They were doing what …

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Most of the time questions about seeking God’s will for our lives revolve around questions about what we should do. Jen Wilkin suggests the more pressing question the Bible deals with has to do with God’s will for what we should be. It’s not that “what should we do?” is wrong, but “what should we …

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This article in Melbourne’s Age newspaper caught my eye. It’s an interview with Claire Shipman and Katty Kay authors of a book called The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know. Part of the article deals with what they describe as a “system we’ve all set up is one …

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