Christian, is it time to discover holy happiness?
Emily Lucas
'Where can you always find happiness?' When caffeine fails to awaken my senses, my daughter’s questions tend to do the job.
My mind began scanning its dusty archives of Platonic philosophy, and mused on the potential flaw in the question: Can one use such an absolute adverb, ‘always’ in association with an experience that is, at best, surely subjective? Can happiness always be found? Can it ever be found?
Should you decide with your head or your heart?
Emily Lucas
Cereal or toast? Walk to work or drive? Home-educate or mainstream school? And yes Conservative, Labour, or Lib Dem? From the moment we wake, our days are filled with endless choices. Some we make with barely a passing thought, while others can leave us wrestling with self-doubt and fear over failure and regret.
Life is a composition of these individual, every-day, every-moment decisions. Choice is powerful. It can give control, a sense of autonomy and it can handover responsibility, burden and consequence. We seek to be people who both give and make wise, right choices. So how do we do so?
First for Reformation women
Emily Lucas
The Reformation Fellowship has hosted its
first Theological Conference for Women,
with over 150 joining on Zoom from around
the world, including the Philippines and
America. ‘The Fear of the Lord’ conference
opened with a seminar by Union’s President
and Professor of Theology, Mike Reeves.
Many women are used
to
speaking of
a desire to walk
in
fear of the Lord, of
using the phraseology and seeking to
live
this
life of wisdom. However,
to
speak
of
fear
in association with God can also
breed wrongful association, particularly as
we
live
in a culture, as Reeves describes,
that is ‘allergic to fear’. Reeves gave a rich,
refreshing recapturing of the true sense of
what it means to have and live in fear of the
Lord. Drawing on his recently published
Rejoice and Tremble, Reeves passionately and
eloquently refreshed the hearts of the saints
attending with the truth that the fear of
God, true saintly fear of God, is the Bible’s great balm for today’s fears and anxieties.
