Devotional Time with Rev. Jacob

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally some form of artistic mark or photo to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Peterson, Jordan B.  12 Rules for Life: an antidote to chaos . Great Britain: Penguin Random House, 2018. Rule 11: Do Not Bother Children When They Are Skateboarding, pp. 317-332 Opening Thought:  Peterson speaks about how some social constructionist’s theory holds the belief that if boys were more like girls (or at least raised to be) then the world would improve. Now many of your reading this might brush those theories aside assuming that there is no real following to them, but I, (and I assume Peterson too) would caution you against this. I h...

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally some form of artistic mark or photo to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Peterson, Jordan B.  12 Rules for Life: an antidote to chaos . Great Britain: Penguin Random House, 2018. Rule 11: Do Not Bother Children When They Are Skateboarding, pp. 302-317 Opening Thought: The fifteen pages of information I devoured today are more challenging to summarize into a neat package of two paragraphs, as Peterson reviews his significant distrust in Marxism and the post-modern philosophies which govern much of the liberal universities. It is difficult to articulate because I am unsure of my reader’s knowledge base of the history of Marxi...

  This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally some form of artistic mark or photo to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Peterson, Jordan B.  12 Rules for Life: an antidote to chaos . Great Britain: Penguin Random House, 2018. Rule 11: Do Not Bother Children When They Are Skateboarding, pp. 285 -302 Opening Thought:  We are beginning the review on Rule 11, and I can say right now that this chapter is one that all parents need to read. The chapter begins with Peterson describing a setting he witnessed on university campus. Skateboarders on the campus had been using the cascading landscapes of concrete and metal railings to test their merit as skateboarders....

  This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally some form of artistic mark or photo to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Peterson, Jordan B.  12 Rules for Life: an antidote to chaos . Great Britain: Penguin Random House, 2018. Rule 10: Be Precise In Your Speech, pp. 279-83 Opening Thought:  “Be precise in your speech”, is so much more than a cautious courtesy in our discourse with each other. It is a dedication to the pursuit of truth. Peterson begins the explanation of this rule by highlighting the immense complexity of reality, of “being” itself. This complexity is something each of us, (who are also immensely complex) must confront. If this was not chall...