Coming from a church where a lot of people frequently spoke of and used the Enneagram, this was quite a startling read.
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new writing at The Habitus
I’ve started writing my Substack newsletter again. It’s been a while since I last did, but I enjoyed thinking through this as I was writing.
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some resources I’ve found helpful
For a long time, I used Reeder Classic to keep up with blogs and things. With the most recent update, though, I’ve moved to the new version of it.
I’ve enjoyed having a sort of personalised feed of the internet, alongside things like bookmarks for reading later. One feature that got added, is the ability to have shared feeds. I’m not using this feature very heavily, but I do have shared feeds for discipleship and prayer. When I read an article that I find helpful or encouraging, it gets added to the feed.
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how do we cope
Kim Riddlebarger recently shared a very helpful word about prayer during trouble in which he said:
But the most important thing of which I can remind them (myself as well) is that we all should be praying that God’s will is being done on earth as it is in heaven (whether that be in ordinary Lord’s Day worship, in prayer meetings, or in family and private prayer).
This stuck out to me because it has been my primary experience through the years. When my wife and I waited to find out whether or not the baby in her womb still had a heartbeat, we prayed. When I found out that a visa to return to the UK had been declined, we prayed. When I found out that my dad was in a coma, we prayed.
One of the sad facts of life is that we go to pray only as a last resort. We rightly pray because we feel helpless but having this attitude robs prayer of the power that is there. Why? Because when we pray we are, spiritually, entering the throne room of the God who created all that we can and cannot see and who upholds all of creation by his powerful word1.
If we want something done by the government, we write to our MP but our MP might not be particularly useful or have much of a voice. When we pray, we are heard by the very source of life and existence himself.
- Hebrews 1:3 ↩
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The Absence of Opposition – The Suburbs of Heaven
This article couldn’t have come at a better time.
One of the quotes that I have hanging on a shelf in my office speaks to this. It is a quote by G. Campbell Morgan, who preceded and mentored Martyn Lloyd-Jones at Westminster Chapel in London. It reads as follows: “If you have no opposition in the place you are serving, then you are serving in the wrong place.”