Ancient Christian Wisdom
for Everyday Life
Wisdom for those with the wild ambition of getting as close to Jesus as they can on earth and living the kind of life that God desires every single day
Welcome to the Daily Monastic. I’m Barnabas the Monastic.
I have a wild ambition in life: get as close to the Lord Jesus Christ as I can while on earth. I attempt to do that by learning to become a modern monastic. I explore and integrate ancient Christian monk wisdom in my modern everyday life. I write about it here. Feel free to write to me about your own journey. I currently reside in the “Great White North.”
Prayer: The Antidote to Pride
Some of the earliest followers of Jesus speculated that among all the virtues, humility was the hardest one to cultivate in a person. Augustine of Hippo once said, "The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, third through humility." It makes a lot of…
A Fresh Start Right Here and Right Now
We all make mistakes. We fall, we fail, and we falter. Some days are just harder than others. That's simply a human reality of living on earth. On some days, things just might become too crazy for us to handle well. On other days, laziness and distractions get the best of our time and we falter in our disciplines. On still other days, we fall into…
Watch Out for Sin
When we're very close to God, we receive a steady stream of insights and guidance from Him. That's because we're quite sensitive to God's presence and He knows we're receptive to what He has to say to us. We're also in a posture of deeply desiring to obey whatever His will is. God loves it when we're eager and ready to obey Him. As I grow closer to Christ each day, I'm at times astounded by…