“The decisions we make are not only determined by our worldview but they help to shape our worldview.”
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12 Steps to Making Better Decisions in the 2020s - TGC
The Contradiction of the Negligent ‘Helicopter Parent’
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“The flip side of ‘helicopter parenting’ is the almost shocking level of neglect those same parents occasionally show their kids. These parents can be extremely overbearing in certain areas, often insignificant ones. At the same time, they are indifferent towards other, more important parts of their children’s upbringing.” - Intellectual Takeout
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Making life-or-death decisions is very hard – here’s how we’ve taught people to do it better
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“The resulting delay, which we’ve called ‘redundant deliberation,’ happens when people take too long to make a choice between difficult options. We’ve found indecision is the most dangerous aspect of a high-stakes situation. ” - The Conversation
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Why (More Than Ever Before) You Need to Read Deeply
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“Birkerts puts his point succinctly near the end of the book: ‘My core fear is that we are, as a culture, as a species … giving up on wisdom, the struggle for which has for millennia been central to the very idea of culture.’” - TGC
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God’s Surprising Work Through Your Worst Critics
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“The urge to fling reciprocal accusations is totally normal. Our impulse is to punch back and set ‘em straight. It’s 100% natural. And that’s the problem.” - IFWE
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Four Tips for Making God-Pleasing Decisions Under Stress
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“Without a doubt, stress of all kinds affects our ability to make sound, wise decisions. It can distort our reality, hasten our decision, amplify our foolishness, or paralyze us.” - IFWE
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Let's Make Wisdom Great Again
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“One of the clearest examples of this problematic yet ever increasing norm in our society came last week when a group of Roman Catholic High School students—who happened to be on a pro-life trip—became the objects of social bullying and bigotry—and, all under the faulty lens of social media manipulation and slander.” - Ref21
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Are you listening? Switch off the soundtrack in your head and listen to others
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“God gave you one mouth and two ears,” the saying goes. But hardly a day passes without someone publicly complaining, ‘Why don’t people listen to each other anymore?’ We’ve lost the knack, or lost the will.” - WORLD
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Knowing God's Will: An Alternative View
Reposted, with permission, from DBTS Blog.
I’ve been reading, recently and with great interest, a blog series defending what is sometimes called the “traditional view” of Christian decision-making—the view that (1) God has an “individual will” for believers and (2) that it can be “discovered.” My intent in this post is not to offer a point-by-point analysis of that series, but rather to offer a succinct statement of an alternative view, together with some hesitations I have with the “traditional” view.
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