Category: The Things We Believe

Is there such a thing as truth beyond what we believe? Discover how biblical wisdom challenges our assumptions about happiness and offers a different approach to finding contentment and peace of mind.

Contentment doesn’t necessarily come from getting what we want. Discover why changing how we think, what we trust, and how we live may lead us toward a source of contentment we’ve overlooked.

We are taught to pursue education, success, relationships, security, and the life we want. But what happens when we achieve those things and still lack peace? Looking at what people across history believed about happiness and contentment may help us understand what our modern navigation system has overlooked.

You got what you wanted, but the peace you expected never arrived. Maybe the problem isn’t what you’ve achieved, but the beliefs that told you those things would finally make life okay. What if the navigation system you’ve been following deserves another look?

Now that we can start to see how we are formed—and that others may be different—there’s a deeper question I have to ask: What does my personality type have to do with love? It turns out—quite a bit. But to understand that, I have to go one level deeper—into what I believe love actually is.…

Most of us don’t realize how much our beliefs shape the way we see other people. We assume we’re being objective. That we’re simply reacting to what’s happening in front of us. But beneath the surface, we’re interpreting everything through a set of ideas we’ve come to accept as true. Ideas about how people should…

Who are we, really? Are we nothing more than a collection of cells—a biological system reacting to stimuli? Or are we something more—a being with design, structure, and purpose? While that question reaches into theology, philosophy, and science, one conclusion is difficult to avoid: human beings consistently display patterns of thought, behavior, and response that…