I just saw this title on an ABC.com Tweet: Prozac for Puppy? More American Pets Are Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs (here’s the article: http://t.co/s43CO670) In the article, I read this startling statistic: Last year, Americans spent nearly $7 billion dollars on pills for their pets and the sales growth is dramatic, up 35 percent in just [...]
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Priorities and the Idol of Happiness
Posted in Culture and Worldview, tagged Ethics, pet meds, pet psychologists, priorities, Psychiatric meds, stewardship on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Is God Really Good?
Posted in Biblical Counseling, Christianity, Culture and Worldview, tagged anxiety, Charles Spurgeon, CS Lewis, death, goodness of God, happiness, James 1, loss, Luke 18, Pain, Psalm 106, Psalm 145, worry on February 6, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Praise the Lord. Give thanks to the Lord for he is good; His love endures forever. Psalm 106:1 This has been a tough verse to swallow in the last ten days for my kids at school. There is no goodness in death itself, and it is hard to reconcile an untimely death and a sovereign [...]
Missing the Trees for the Forest
Posted in Culture and Worldview, Holidays, Women's Ministry, tagged apathy, exhaustion, goals, Gospel of Mark, Healing, Jesus, Martha, Mary, ministry, service on December 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
24 And he went with him. And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him. 25 And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, 26 and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew [...]
Where the Storm Meets the Sun
Posted in Book Reviews, Christianity, Culture and Worldview, Holidays, tagged book review, David Suchet, foreshadowing, grand narrative, Jago, Jesus, Jesus Storybook Bible, Lloyd-Jones, theology on December 29, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I bought a book for my niece and nephew for Christmas this year. Nothing shocking about this; I was buying them books before they were born. But this year I picked up what is, I believe, the most well written, theologically rich storybook Bible I’ve ever seen. The Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones and [...]
Poetic Application of Romans 12:1-2
Posted in Bible Study, Christianity, Culture and Worldview, relationships, Women's Ministry, Youth Ministry, tagged Alicia Keys, Beyonce, Blair Wingo, Chris Brown, Christian Dior, Game, Genesis 6, Jesus, Kanye West, Ne-yo, Nimrod, P4CM, relationships, Romans 12, Satan, Souljah Boy, T-Pain, Thoughts, TI on December 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will [...]
