Structure that Leads to Flourishing

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You are not meant to just “do you” or try to eke out a modicum of happiness before you disappear. You are meant to exert your God-given gifts on the God-given raw materials at your disposal for the good of others and the glory of God. The living creatures around you are to flourish because of your cultivation, because you exist.

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Be the Master of Your Calendar

Ben Stuart

This is part one of Structure that Leads to Flourishing—an excerpt series from Ben Stuart’s book Rest & War. How do we go about what we are on earth to do? We need a plan of attack. We need to harness our calendar for the greatest of all causes. We need to organize our days. This may not sound particularly spiritual or profound. But what I am advocating is not simply putting dates on the calendar. I am calling us to order our world, and it begins with deciding what we’ll put our…

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Who We Are Determines What We Do

Ben Stuart

This is part two of Structure that Leads to Flourishing—an excerpt series from Ben Stuart’s book Rest & War. Click here to read part one. Planning helps keep our priorities present in our practices. It reduces stress and it helps us get more done and miss out on fewer opportunities. So to begin, we start with our titles. We begin with who we are. Our activity is meant to flow from our identity. Boxers box. Dancers dance. Students study (theoretically). Whatever identity you believe is most fundamental to…

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A Closer Look At My Schedule

Ben Stuart

This is part three of Structure that Leads to Flourishing—an excerpt series from Ben Stuart’s book Rest & War. Click here for part one, click here for part two, and click here to grab a copy of this special resource. I will go ahead and share with you the schedule I’ve found works for me, and along the way I’ll point out how being a student of myself helped me become a better steward of myself. Usually my time with the Lord in the morning flows naturally…

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Family

Complex dynamics and messy relationships can often come to mind when we consider family. As we seek intimacy with the Lord, He comes alongside us in the brokenness and reminds us of our relationship with Him as our loving Father.

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Hope

God is referred to as the “God of hope” in Romans 15:13. Though our circumstances may seem futile, we are to place our hope in “him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,”

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