September 29, 2019 | Psalms 38–39 DEVOTIONS. This Month’s Issue Would it be better to win a silver medal or a bronze? In 1995, psychologists from Cornell University studied the reaction of Olympic silver and bronze medalists. They found that bronze medalists were significantly happier with their achievement than silver medalists. The reason is that […]
September 28, 2019 | Psalm 37 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue After experiencing a crushing political defeat and breaking off an engagement to be married in 1841, Abraham Lincoln was in a dark place. He later talked about how he had contemplated suicide, but refrained because he “had done nothing to make any human being remember […]
September 27, 2019 | Psalms 35–36 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue In his masterpiece, Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis wrote perceptively about pride. He said, “As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, […]