by Scott A Stonehouse | Aug 5, 2025 | Books, Personal Growth
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu This is a fiction book about a global pandemic. It spans generations. Each chapter moves further along the timeline and is told from a different perspective. I enjoyed it. Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman This is a...
by Scott A Stonehouse | Jul 29, 2025 | Personal Growth
Discipline and Desire. Both are important. They are related. I wouldn’t describe them as opposite ends of a spectrum, but they do provide different types of motivation. This is true whether it is your exercise routine or study habits. When you begin an exercise...
by Scott A Stonehouse | Jul 22, 2025 | Christianity, Habits, Personal Growth
Over my years as a Christian and as a pastor, one of the things I have heard from others many, many times is their desire to read the Bible more and their frustration that they don’t. They seem to have this sense that they should read the Bible more and that it...
by Scott A Stonehouse | Jul 4, 2025 | Personal Growth
This is the first blog post. Nothing profound. More just something to get started. Evidence that I can point to that tells me I am following through on some of my plans. It is also not very good. A subtle way to get over the fear of being...