THE BENEFITS OF GRATITUDE “At sea in a dense fog” is how Helen Keller described her life after losing her eyesight and her hearing at the age of 19 months—permanently blind and deaf for the rest of her life—yet, at the end of it all, she could say: “So much has been [...]
TRAINING MY CHILD IN FINANCIAL MATTERS Did you know that the Bible has a lot to say about money? • Over 2,350 verses talk about money (riches, wages, treasure, silver, gold, wealth, etc.). That’s twice as many as the number of verses that speak about faith and prayer combined. • 15% of everything [...]
LIVING THE LIFE YOU DIDN'T CHOOSE Dr. Frederic Luskin is the director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Project, one of the largest and most important studies on forgiveness ever conducted. In one of his talks online, Dr. Luskin explains how forgiveness is living the life you didn’t choose. He sees forgiveness as the [...]
NEVER SAY NEVER “There are two things I will never do: become a pastor or live in Africa.” I was a teenager when I witnessed someone decide to go into the ministry; I thought: What a waste of a life! Then, I listened to the story of a family who served as missionaries in Africa and faced some [...]
HAPPILY MARRIED = HEALTHIER “A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries up the bones” (Proverbs 17:22). Familiar verse. Encouraging words. Perhaps some quasi-scientific connection? Not at all, the science is solid. White blood cells develop in yellow bone marrow, which is significant because “white blood cells are [...]
LOW-TO-NO-TECH EDUCATION Shortly before he passed away, Steve Jobs was asked by a New York Times journalist: “So, your kids must love the iPad?” Jobs said he banned his kids from using an iPad. “We don’t allow the iPad in the home. We think it’s too dangerous for them in effect.” Along the [...]
THE EFFECT OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA ON THE BRAIN “This past week,” my daughter wrote, “we decided to completely cut out our son’s screen time. He wasn’t watching every minute of every day, but it had slowly started to creep in more and more from just being when we drove in the car to [...]
PRAYER ACTIVATES YOUR BRAIN Studies have documented that families who habitually eat dinner together seem to raise children with better homework skills, higher grades, greater emotional control, and more confidence.ˡ And, get this, simply making your bed in the morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of wellbeing, and stronger skills [...]
ULTRA-ENDURANCE CHRISTIAN “I do what’s called ultra-endurance bike packing races,” Chris Bennett, civil engineer, explains. “These are races typically of several thousand kilometers long. I’ve done a race of seven and a half thousand kilometers from Norway to Spain, a four and a half thousand kilometers race from London to Istanbul, a race [...]
