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Quote by Timothy Ferriss on how to increase someone’s IQ. [Quote]

It’s amazing how someone’s IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.

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Timothy Ferriss
The 4-Hour Workweek (Random House LLC, 2009), Kindle Location 1797

How God’s Sovereignty Factors into Forgiving Others [Video]

How God’s Sovereignty Factors into Forgiving Others

In this video clip from a recent interview, I discuss with Colleen Swindoll Thompson how important it is to factor God’s sovereignty into forgiving others. I hope it encourages you.

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Hope from the Upper Room and David’s Tomb

How events of history and tradition combine to offer an answer to David’s prayer.

One of King David’s most poignant prayers came after one of his greatest mistakes. “Do not cast me away from Your presence,” he prayed, “and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me” (Psalm 51:11).

(Photo: Upper Room Interior. Courtesy of the Pictorial Library of Bible Lands)

At the traditional site of the Upper Room, pieces of Hebrew and Christian scripture come together in an ancient building. Here, on Jerusalem’s...

Quote by David Henderson on the blessing of inefficient time spent in relationships. [Quote]

Relationships are inherently inefficient. All involve spending lots of time just being together—not accomplishing something. God’s refining work in us–such as the forming of patience, endurance, and perseverance—also offers no immediate payback. Yet these things keep coming up in Scripture as valuable, even if they are born of “wasted” time.

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Labor Day Mountain Biking—and What Family Requires

Ask me how I know.

Two words that have nothing to do with each other collided with me on Labor Day a few years ago. Consider two completely unrelated terms:

BI·CY·CLE. noun: 1. A vehicle consisting of a light frame mounted on two wire-spoked wheels one behind the other and having a seat, handlebars for steering, brakes, and two pedals.

MOUN·TAIN. noun: 1. A natural elevation of the earth’s surface having considerable mass, generally steep sides, and a height greater than that of a hill.

(Phot...

3 Promises of God to Help Your Fear of Change

Would you be willing to follow God if you knew you couldn't fail?

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Let me guess. You sit in the same spot in church each week. You drive the same route to work. You eat the same things for breakfast. And you pray the same way at meals. Am I close? Yep. Me too.

(Photo by Photodune)

You and I both are creatures of habit. We like the security of routine. And as long as nobody sits in our seat at church, life is fine. Or to say it another way, we have a fear of ch...

Tranquility: Cultivating a Quiet Soul in a Busy World [Book]

Tranquility: Cultivating a Quiet Soul in a Busy World by David Henderson (Baker Books, 2015) David Henderson’s book offers a new take on the classic principles described in Hummel’s The Tyranny of the Urgent and Swenson’s Margin . Tranquility takes its title from Ecclesiastes 4:6:

Better one handful with tranquility
than two handfuls with toil
and chasing after the wind. (NIV)

In other words, we have to make choices. A limited amount of time forces us to admit we can’t do...

3 Benefits of Journaling on Your Holy Land Tour

How journaling on your journey gives you a reservoir for your head and heart.

One of my first trips to Israel was a field study course I took at Dallas Theological Seminary. In addition to studying Carl Rasmussen’s excellent atlas, the course required I journal daily on my tour.

(Sunrise on the Sea of Galilee)

When I first read the requirement to journal daily on tour, I rolled my eyes. Really? First of all, I never really journaled before. What’s more, wasn’t I there to study the land of Isr...

In this interview @WayneStiles addresses an important discipline all of us must exercise—waiting on God: http://ow.ly/RHaCy [Tweet]

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9/2/15

Discussing Waiting on God with Colleen Swindoll Thompson [Video]

If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here. In this interview, I discuss Waiting on God with Colleen Swindoll Thompson, who serves as the Director of the Special Needs Ministry at Insight for Living Ministries.

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