Ecclesiastes 3:22

This weekend is the only weekend of the year where for 3 days we celebrate labor. We call it Labor Day weekend. Wait, is that what we are celebrating? I thought we were celebrating the end of the summer and it was a weekend to not think about work.…

So I read through Amy Chua’s article, The Battle Hymn of the Tiger-Mother, and feel I have failed as a mum. (This, of course, is the uneasy reaction the sassy book was intended to evoke.) “Zoe and Irene,” I say dramatically. “I have failed as a tiger-mother.” Zoe snorts. “You never were a tiger-mother, Mum. Especially now. You […]…

Here’s Irene, her prize, and Grandmaster Aaron Summerscale So I flick through Amy Chua’s book, The Battle Hymn of the Tiger-Mother, and feel I have failed as a mum. (This, of course, is the reaction the sassy book was intended to evoke–and the reaction which has propelled it to best-sellerdom.)”Zoe and Irene,” I say dramatically. “I have failed […]…

A lecture in the course I just attended on Oxford’s Christian history was on John Owen, the Puritan divine who was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Read John Piper’s eloquent tribute to him here.Owen, despite ill health and personal tragedy (all his 11 children died before him, and only one survived childhood) was unbelievably disciplined and […]…

Can you have the Spirit of Entrepreneurship? I searched the Bible for characteristics that would be best for a successful, God ordained, business.…

Do whatever makes you happy! Seek to be happy above all else! We are consumed with happiness in our culture. Life is all about being happy. People are living for happiness. But, is happiness to be the greatest goal of our lives? Is the pursuit of happiness the thing that should consume our lives? We are considering that topic today. Why not drop by for a visit?…

Do whatever makes you happy! Seek to be happy above all else! We are consumed with happiness in our culture. Life is all about being happy. People are living for happiness. But, is happiness to be the greatest goal of our lives? Is the pursuit of happiness the thing that should consume our lives? We are considering that topic today. Why not drop by for a visit?…

Do whatever makes you happy! Seek to be happy above all else! We are consumed with happiness in our culture. Life is all about being happy. People are living for happiness. But, is happiness to be the greatest goal of our lives? Is the pursuit of happiness the thing that should consume our lives? We are considering that topic today. Why not drop by for a visit?…

In a previous article, I discussed the importance of accepting our toil as a gift. This came from Ecclesiastes 3:22: “...a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot.” In the passage, we can also observe the concept of accepting one’s lot. We see this also in a similar passage later on. “Find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot. … To accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of Go…