I’m writing this in Helsinki Airport while waiting for my delayed flight home to Stockholm. Airports can be truly boring places to spend time in making good books and writing to do very helpful!

It’s been a busy time the last couple of weeks which I need to fill you in on with guests, travel, conferences, renovations, people having crises and the annual kickstarting of life in Sweden after the long summer lull.

You Should Read These

1. 10 Best Practices of Super Healthy Leaders. Despite the click-baity headline there are still some helpful reminders here
2. Order and Openness: Planning for Spontaneity in Worship. Westerholm is correct, they’re planning and spontaneity are not in conflict
3. 10 Uncomfortable Truths About Christian Sexual Ethics. Brett McCracken dealing some clarity.
4. The Ever-Present Search for an Easy Christian Faith. Trevin Wax speaking to much of Swedish evangelicalism.
5. Everything I Know about Self-Publishing. If you’ve ever thought of writing and publishing a book, this will help.
6. The Infinite Well: How Innovation Keeps Water Flowing. Fascinating.
7. Rembrandt to Picasso: Five ways to spot a fake masterpiece. Or why forgers are brilliant artists.

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You Should Look At This

The ocean is another universe. Some of the creatures are almost unbelievable: Incredible Winners of the 2024 Ocean Art Underwater Photography Contest

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You Should Listen To This

Lord of the Rings only for summer chilling.

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You Should Watch This

This is both hypnotically beautiful and also quite incredible. How high was that dune?

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This Week’s Postings

None at all. Back at this week.

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From The Archives

I regularly walk through the spiritual exercise of counting my blessings, it’s a sure-fire way of dealing with first world problems and the creeping self-centredness that is hard to avoid in 21st-century Western Europe.

I’ve discovered that as I count the many good things in my life that gratitude and thankfulness increase and I consider myself blessed. There is the danger here that I might think I deserve these manifold gifts and treasures. Fortunately, for every heads there is a tails and for every poison an antidote. The opposite plan to counting my blessings is, oddly enough, to consider the misfortune of others.

Did I ever tell you how lucky you are?

Have a great weekend.