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You Are Not Your Feelings: Finding Emotional Maturity
Our culture encourages us to trust our feelings above almost everything else. But what if our feelings aren’t telling us the whole truth? Drawing on Scripture, Viktor Frankl, Arthur C. Brooks and the example of Jesus, this article explores what emotional maturity looks like and why followers of Jesus can acknowledge every feeling honestly without allowing those feelings to become their master.
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Getting the Life You Want: Why Happiness Isn’t the Goal
Most of us want to be happy, but what if we’ve been aiming at the wrong target? Drawing on our everyday experience, the timeless wisdom of Scripture, and insights from Arthur C. Brooks’ Getting the Life You Want, this article explores why happiness is not simply the absence of sadness, pain, or struggle. Instead, it points us towards something richer—a life marked by enjoyment, purpose, satisfaction, and hope. If Jesus really came so that we might “have life, and have it to the full,” perhaps it’s time to stop chasing happiness and start discovering the whole life he offers.
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Whole life
The little things I am continuing my dialogue with Paul’s challenge to Timothy in 1 Timothy 4:12. One of the things I notice about Paul’s list is that none of the things he mentions are issues which you could ever get to a point where you don’t need to work on them. The second thing he counsels Timothy is to set an example with his life. Interesting that this comes second in a list of five things. In some ways he could have just said “set and example with your life” and left it there. Why didn’t he? I think it was because he had something specific in mind.
