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 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 7: Pursue What Is Meaningful [Not what is Expedient], pp. 178- 201 Opening Thought: For the sake of time, I will be limiting what I have pulled from Peterson in the last 23 pages. Peterson covers much history, philosophy, religious nuance, and more, all of which I highly recommend checking out for yourself. I will also note Peterson offers a nice summary of Christianity in history, offering an apologetic defense of Christianity's benefit to the whol...

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 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 7: Pursue What Is Meaningful [Not what is Expedient], pp. 174- 178 Opening Thought: If we wish to pursue what is meaningful, we must also be aware of what is not meaningful, and against meaning. For the Christian “meaning” is associated with truth, and the only thing that is ultimately true is the will of God. Anything that is against God, is against the truth, and ultimately would have no meaning. Evil is the antithesis to all meaning and truth. Th...

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 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 7: Pursue What Is Meaningful [Not what is Expedient], pp. 164-173 Opening Thought: Peterson continues his look at the pursuit of meaning by focusing on the utility of sacrifice, framing it well by postulating how sacrifice could have generated as a human ideal, (from an evolutionary standpoint). Peterson depicts this natural process giving birth to an ideal human characteristic that allows people and societies access to the transcendent. To pursue w...

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 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 7: Pursue What Is Meaningful [Not what is Expedient], pp. 160-164 Opening Thought: As we move into the seventh rule from Peterson, I want to give a little reminder to the last rule.  When Peterson says people need to “set [their] house in perfect order before you criticize the world”, in this conversation Peterson does not say that the world is ideal and therefore you should get your house to be ideal to match, rather he notes the world is corr...

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 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 6: Set Your House in Perfect Order before You Criticize the World, pp. 145-159 Opening Thought: This rule, to set your house in order before you criticize the world , is an amplified expansion of the old biblical verse, “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” [John 8:7] This chapter speaks to how people become the ones casting stones in their own sin. Peterson takes it to the extreme of serial killers and mass shooters...

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 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 5: Do Not Let Your Children Do Anything That Makes You Dislike Them, pp. 136-144 Opening Thought: For those of you who live in our neck of the woods (Ontario, Canada) hope you have a great family day long weekend. On the topic of families, this week’s post is talking about discipline, particularly about punishment. Jordan Peterson speaks about the necessity to have a strong and unified front in parenthood. Children need to understand there are conse...

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 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 5: Do Not Let Your Children Do Anything That Makes You Dislike Them, pp. 123-136 Opening Thought: I find this rule very fascinating, and if I have infinite time, I could likely write a book’s worth of commentary on this chapter alone. This rule is framed around children, but it really speaks about the fundamental importance of having a healthy appreciation for rules, boundaries, and patience in the formation of children, but also in our self-governa...