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You may want to ask yourself today: Am I living the gospel I believe? Is the good news of Jesus evident in the way I treat others?

Wisdom will help you to see accurately how you’re living. Wisdom is not mere knowledge. Rather, it is deeper understanding, knowledge permeated by good judgment, knowledge shaped by experience. Wisdom is the ability to see what’s right, what’s important, what’s beneficial, what’s best.

Here we are at another Advent season—when we commemorate the anticipation of the birth of Jesus Christ. To set the scene biblically, it was a time of great darkness in the earth, and more specifically in the Jewish community. They had been waiting for the arrival of their Savior with the expectation that he would turn the tables of their misfortunes. Exile, captivity, oppression, the pervasive humiliation of second-class status—over time, these feelings compiled to birth... hope.

Clarity of purpose helps us to flourish as we live, not primarily for ourselves, but for something much larger than ourselves.

Today is January 31st, the last day of 2018. This is a good day not only to prepare for New Year’s Eve celebrations but also to reflect on the last year. How was your year? How were you this year? What went well? What went poorly? What would you like to learn from the past year so that you might live more fully and productively in 2019? I find a passage from Ephesians to be a helpful way to think about the last year.

We live in a day when many leaders in all sectors live and lead in ways that promote their own good rather than the good of others or the organizations they lead. The moral failure of leaders begets mistrust and suspicion.

Written by Mark D. Roberts. Categories include De Pree Journal.

In this article, Mark begins to answer the question: “How can I know my purpose for the third third of life?” This article is the first in a series. It establishes some foundations and begins to suggest things you can do if you want to figure out...