A challenge concerning the shooting at Newtown, CT: Sympathize before you Synthesize
Many of us were appalled with those who began talking about gun control, school security, and the effects of video games on America’s youth within hours of what some are calling the most tragic school shooting in American history. It just seemed insensitive. In our Single Focus Bible Study on Sunday morning–48 hours after the...
Democrats, Republicans, Monopoly and Leviticus 19
I gave up on Temple Run when after many, many tries I finally accepted I would never beat @someasiankid‘s 9 million point high score. My current time waster here lately has been Monopoly. I must confess, I never actually knew how to play Monopoly until a few days ago when I started playing the EA...
The Source of Your Worth – part 2
In part 1, I expressed the thought that the source of your worth begins with an understanding of who you are. In the thoughts below, I hope to articulate that it continues with an understanding of what God expects. Self-esteem is a term used in psychology to reflect a person’s overall evaluation or appraisal of her or his...
The Source of Your Worth
It is tempting to seek self-worth among earthly things like popularity, athletic ability, good looks, musicianship, or possessions. For an earthly minded person, their level of self-worth is directly proportional to the amount of attention, love, and/or commendation they receive from people. But, if the source of your worth is in earthly things you will...
Bearing Another’s Burden
The thing about bearing someone else’s burden is that it’s not easy even for you. It’s not like the burden all of a sudden becomes extremely light when you get under the load with your friend. It’s still a burden. Burdens aren’t enjoyable. You’re not happy when you’re going through it. But, in a way I...
Where’s the Spooky Stuff?
Many people think that all happenings are the result of normal everyday processes. If a person falls in love with another person, then this happened because of the release of romance-inducing chemicals that cause us to have affectionate feelings towards others. If someone feels pain, then this happens because of a series of electrical, delivery...
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Did you know that Aretha Franklin’s famous song “Respect” was written by a man? Otis Redding, to be exact. The following lyrics were lauded by the feminist movement when sung by a woman, but listen to this man’s words pleading for respect and recognition from a woman: (oo) All I’m askin’ (oo) Is for a...
How to Love God in One Easy Step
As a young parent, I’m beginning to really internalize a great number of truths that I’ve known only cognitively since my childhood. The one on my heart today has to do with obedience. Wait, didn’t you say in your last post you were going to be talking about love? Why, yes I did. And I...
Love is…
I have a good many things on my mind to write about, but as I ponder where to start, I realize that many of these topics require one simple underlying principle as their foundation: love is an action. Our culture has cheapened love to some feeling or emotion, and the result is a people group...
A Loving Disagreement
All the hubub about Bell’s new book, which does pit him as some type of Universalist, according to this review, has me wondering if we can negate the effectiveness of our truth-telling in the way we tell it. I don’t know about you, but I have a hard time being loving while disagreeing with someone,...
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