Happiness, First Choice: Intention

There are nine choices Foster and Hicks discovered that consistently happy people make. Each choice leads to the next in a circular helix very like the chambers of a conch. The choice that launches all the rest is intention.

Why Won’t God Answer My Prayer?

Anthony DeStefano opens his book on prayer with this quote: โ€œWhen a doctoral student at Princeton asked, โ€˜What is there left in the world for original dissertation research?โ€™ Albert Einstein replied, โ€˜Find out about prayer. Somebody must find out about prayer.โ€™โ€

Revelation 2: Ephesus

Before your hearts become more calloused, while you still have some sensitivity to the Holy Spirit, turn back towards love, Jesus was saying.

Advent: Respite of Joy

Have you ever wondered why the third candle in the advent wreath is pink? Why pink? Why the third Sunday? The short answer is joy! But the long answer is fascinating, and it has something to do with Lent, and something to do with an early Gnostic movement that dismissed Jesus as a real human person.

1 Peter 1: Spiritual DNA

Our spiritual DNA is now from above, and as we live in faith, by faith in Jesus, we experience Jesusโ€™ faithfulness in us and to us; we grow and mature into our new being, a being of love.