Friendship as a trusted and faithful custodian of someone’s story, of being a friend to them through the accumulation of knowledge that might otherwise isolate us. An interesting observation from Sammy Rhodes. The hard work of friendship is entrusting your heart to another and risking your story while at the same time holding your friend’s …

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Murray Campbell provides an encouraging report about a gathering of people from different churches in Melbourne. As part of that he writes of his appreciation for speaker Mark Dever asking that the lights in the auditorium be turned up. The practice has crept into Christian gatherings with increasing frequency and serves to decrease the corporate …

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The pursuit of happiness will be futile if it is happiness itself which is being sought. Happiness can only be experienced as a fruit of seeking after that which endures. Sammy Rhodes writes about modern relationships and the reasons they founder: Wanting happiness isn’t a bad thing. It’s a human thing. The problem is that …

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