"It’s not enough these days just to question authority. You’ve got to speak with it too."
Chris Seay, TEDxHouston
"Our recompense is measured not according to ‘our success’ but ‘our labor’ and, as with our blessed Master, vouchsafed even in the failure of our ministration.” God rewards our labor, even if we “fail.” Like Jesus."
Charles Bridges, via John Piper
Always hire the best candidate, Part One
The 7 Minute Candidate Matching System from Sean Johnson on Vimeo.
It’s a familiar story – you post a position on various job boards, get bombarded with resumes (many of whom obviously…
Salt used wisely
We have some friends who are in a program called “safe parents”. The deal is that parents who are in crisis (drug addiction, abuse, etc.) can enter the program to get advice and resources to address…
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
François de La Rochefoucald
"It is an error to think that those who flee worldly affairs and engage in contemplation are leading an angelic life… We know that men were created to busy themselves with labor and that no sacrifice is more pleasing to God than when each one attends to his calling and studies well to live for the common good."
John Calvin
"The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself."
John Piper
"It is a universal experience that conscience is largely autonomous in its operation; though sometimes we can suppress or stifle it, it normally speaks independently of our will, and sometimes, indeed, contrary to our will. And when it speaks, it is in a strange way distinct from us; it stands over us, addressing us with an absoluteness of authority which we did not give it and which we cannot take from it. To personify conscience and treat it as God’s watchman and spokesman in the soul is not, therefore, a mere flight of fancy, it is a necessity of human experience."
J. I. Packer, A Quest for Godliness
"What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert—himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason… . The new skeptic is so humble that he doubts if he can even learn… . There is a real humility typical of our time; but it so happens that it’s practically a more poisonous humility than the wildest prostrations of the ascetic… . The old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which might make him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which makes him stop working altogether… . We are on the road to producing a race of man too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table."
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Life is a race
In my twenties I was a flurry of activity. I deftly juggled dozens of balls. I burned midnight oil. I crushed it.
In my twenties I aimed for the fancy title and got it. I navigated politics. I…
