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NFL referee Sarah Thomas said her biggest achievement in 2020 was not reaching the milestone of becoming the first woman to officiate the Super Bowl, but rather the growth she saw because of her faith. During an interview, Thomas said in the height of the pandemic in June 2020, she was out of control,…

In his article, “The power of doing nothing at all,” Aytekin Tank writes, “We’ve grown to subconsciously measure a person’s worth based off how many hours they work, how much is on their plate and put simply — whether or not they are running around like a chicken with their head cut off.” https://www.jotform.com/blog/the-power-of-doing-nothing-at-all/…

New research has concluded that people simply don’t like being alone with their own thoughts. The experiment called on participants who ranged in age from 18-77, to sit alone in a room for six to 15 minutes. Afterwards over 50% of the subjects reported they did not enjoy it. Talking about the study,…

Many people say they want a few minutes alone to think, but results of a study suggestion those people are the minority. The study conducted by the University of Virginia found that most volunteers who researchers asked to spend no more than 15 minutes alone in a room doing nothing found the task extremely…

Peter’s Church in East Blatchington, Sussex has found a way to help their parishioners who struggle with practicing the spiritual discipline of silence. A parishioner of the 900-year-old church suggested they set a microphone in the middle of the sanctuary and sell the recording as a meditation tool.…

In The Divine Commodity: Discovering a Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity, Skye Jethani writes, “Silence allows us the space to contemplate the vastness of the heavens and the God beyond them. Silence can shatter the trivialized deity that has occupied our imaginations and provide God the canvas to begin…

In Why Johnny Can’t Preach: The Media Have Shaped the Messengers. T. David Gordon writes, “Every technological development has a cost that is well beyond what is expended in research and development. Every technological development has an opportunity cost because once we spend even part of our day using…

In Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, Richard Swenson writes: “Busyness is not a synonym for kingdom work-it is only busyness.” --Margin, Kindle Loc. 1176 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson Psalm 46:10 (KJV) “Be still, and know that I am God: I will be…

Author Gary Barkalow describes a time in his life, when he was really struggling. Gary says he had left a job, a place, and community that he never expected he would leave. He says he knew why he needed to leave and what he wanted to do, but did not know how to get there. During this period of searching,…

The Information Technology company, Unlimited IT was frustrated with the slow transmission times on the nation’s Internet system, and devised an experiment to show just how slow it was. They pitted an old-fashioned carrier pigeon against the modern Internet to see which could transmit a computer file…

In his book, Satisfy your Soul, Bruce Demarest writes, “We schedule ourselves to the eyebrows and leave little time for reflection on matters of spiritual significance. The U.S. military, which lives euphemisms, calls this ‘task saturation.’” --Satisfy your Soul, 125. Illustration by Jim L. Wilson Psalm…

BUSYNESS In his book, Satisfy your Soul, Bruce Demarest writes, “The Bible affirms the virtues of “faith, hope, and love” (I Corinthians 13:13), and to that many Christians add a fourth virtue: busyness for God. Many find that the crush of daily life prevents them from really relating even to their spouse…

BUSYNESS In Seeking the Face of God, Gary Thomas writes, “A drug addict cannot expect to give up drugs without paying the price of withdrawal. We who have been drugged by diversions cannot expect to enter the quiet without a struggle. Our souls will roar for diversion, the fix that saves us from God’s…

BUSYNESS In Seeking the Face of God, Gary Thomas writes, “The sin many of us fall into s not that we shake our fists at God and defy Him to His face; that is the sin of unbelievers. Our sin is that we passively repel against God, filling our lives with so much noise and busyness that God’s voice cannot,…

STILLNESS One of the Nordic regions biggest power plants recently shut down to allow an expert to tune a grand piano. The piano was used for a concert in a huge underground hall near the 1120 megawatt Sima Power plant. The piano tuner has requested that the plant be shut down to give him time to tune…

LISTENING "If the mall and the church disappeared tomorrow, which would people miss most?" Jim Henderson, of the Off the Map movement, says most people who are not believers do not notice the church at all. The Off the Map movement works to help believers view the idea of talking about Jesus differently.…

BUSYNESS In his book, Satisfy your Soul, Bruce Demarest writes, “For many of us, the problem stems from the fact that we have forfeited God in the busyness of life’s activities-even church work. A recent study of two dozen conservative Christians who left the church found that while most were actively…

IMPACT Thursday, November 29, 2001, the world mourned the death of former Beatle and musician George Harrison. Radio stations replayed interviews with Harrison. There was a moment of meditation to commemorate his death, Tuesday, December 4th, as the former Beatle's ashes were spread over a holy spot…

John MacArthur Basisinformationen zur Bibel Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung Postfach 11 01 35 • 33661 Bielefeld Wenn nicht anders angegeben, sind die Bibelzitate der Schlachter 2000 entnommen. Abkürzungen weiterer Bibelausgaben: Elb.: Elberfelder Bibel, unrevidierte Fassung Lu 12: Lutherbibel von 1912…

At offering time introduce Highlights hidden picture What is the point? Sometimes the thing we are looking for is right in front of our faces. That was certainly the case in Acts 12. Back in Acts 7 we saw the first Christian martyr, Stephen. And then in Acts 8 & 9 we saw that a great persecution arose…

The Pursuit of God in Corporate Worship The Intensification of Worship as an Inward Experience of the Heart The essential, vital, indispensable, defining heart of worship is the experience of being satisfied with God because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. The chief end…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…