Because the Internet Needed One More Article About the Ice Bucket Challenge
If your Facebook feed looks like mine, you’re tired of ice bucket videos already. You’re probably also tired of articles telling you why ALS organizations …
More Unjust than ISIS
The unrelenting advances of ISIS (an extreme muslim terrorist organization) in Northern Iraq combined with the shock of horrific images and videos has dominated headlines …
Summer Break is Done—We’re Excited to be Back!
As a reader of Rooted Thinking, we wanted to give you a special update. We began Rooted Thinking with the intention of providing high-quality biblical …
So When Does It Start Getting Easier?
My wife and I once decided to climb Pike’s Peak. Since we are both from the east coast, a big mountain to us was 5,000 …
The verse says “rejoice evermore”… but I hurt.
On one side of a table sits a man in deep crisis. He just lost everything, from his entire family to his possessions. We’ll call …
Mood Tides: Divine Purpose in the Rhythms of Life
Rather than try impossibly to live in a perpetual high, what if we embraced divine purpose in the cycle of changing emotions we experience?
Sorry, Pharrell, but Happiness Actually Isn’t the Truth.
It caught me one morning without any warning. I should have been jubilant. But now, unexpectedly, I felt empty and listless. After pouring my entire life into one goal for two years, I completely lost motivation when my goal was achieved.
God Has a Plan for You. Now Live It.
We can stress out about how to “find God’s will”or believe that God has already given His will. He wrote an entire Book full of it. Sometimes we ignore the truth that couldn’t be clearer (His Word) while searching for personalized revelation.
So Which Time Did You Miss God’s Will?
I still remember where I was sitting when the phone rang. It was the director of my mission board. We were only three months into deputation to join a missions team in Zambia, Africa. My heart had been set on that plan for four years. Everything fell into place. But in one phone call it was all demolished. Our coworkers were moving. Their new location didn’t need another family. All of our plans were off.
What Is God’s Will For My Life? Six Biblical Foundations
Does God have in mind one person you’re supposed to marry? Can you miss God’s will? Where do you start in seeking God’s will? For the next two weeks we’ll consider six biblical foundations concerning God’s will, leaving us in a better position to discern what God wants us to do.