Elusive Virtue of Contentment

Dewey Engelsma·2019-11-01

Erik Raymond. Chasing Contentment: Trusting God in a Discontented Age. Crossway, 2017. 166 pp. $14.99, cloth Contentment is a virtue that is much easier to discuss than to practice. Whether in the back of church or on social media, the definitions roll easily off our tongues. “It is being satisfied with everything that God has given us.” “It is not being angry or bitter when God withholds certain things from us.” “It means being happy with everything that might happen to us since we...

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