Rick and Kay Warren are well known as Christians through Saddleback Church and The Purpose Drive Life. Their youngest son, Matthew, took his own life at the age of 27 in the context of ongoing mental illness. Piers Morgan conducted the first substantial interview with the Warrens about their loss. In the interview they speak …
Andy Naselli provides these, excerpted from his own review of another work inspired by C.S. Lewis’ book. This is like a strategy map for spiritual warfare. Go and read The Screwtape Letters or see if you can find the audiobook version with John Cleese reading it. Make him preoccupied with ordinary, “real” life—not arguments or …
Our suffering and sadness, well navigated, will cause us to look inward, but our gaze should not, must not remain there. Instead, acknowledging the emptiness, loss and confusion within, and convicted of our inability to endure suffering, we look to Jesus, who came and endured the true suffering of which ours is but the echo. …
I need a double dose of this today. “Self-pity is a vacuum into which gratitude cannot enter. In fact, self-pity and thanksgiving cannot coexist. They are mutually exclusive. Although thanksgiving is the antidote to this poison, few bound by self-pity will take the foray into expressing thanks for all the blessings they do have.” – …
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