How you think changes everything
How do you know when the “wool is being pulled over your eyes?” There is SO much disinformation out there, especially on the internet, many of us simply throw up our hands and say, “I don’t know!” In some cases, that is all we can do. But in other cases, we can’t give up that […]
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Sometimes I feel the weight of the world When I peer into its past And learn about those who Have gone before me last Pondering the mysteries of life Of which we must contend Counting my days get shorter Knowing now this life will end Growing old is just around the corner Unlike the days of […]
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I just finished reading The Boy on the Wooden Box to my son, who I homeschool in his 5th grade year. Interestingly enough, I’ve been simultaneously reading Ordinary Men for a class I’m taking on “Why God Allows Evil.” Both books deal with the Holocaust. The book I’m reading to Josh, however, deals with a […]
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Pornography will hurt you. Young men, and an ever-growing number of young women, have secret addictions to pornography. Mainstream culture is beginning to notice the detrimental effects pornography is having on society as a whole. It “objectifies” people. What does that mean? It means you no longer see a person as a real human being—they […]
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It doesn’t take a lot of common sense to realize if you’re going to fill your minds with bad stuff, you’re more likely to become bad yourself. A recent example of this was when a 17-year old boy planned a massacre at his high school in Minnesota. Thank God his plans were thwarted by a woman who […]
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We were created in the image of God. You are called to represent God on Earth! Wow. What is that supposed to look like? Two arms, legs and a head? No, being in the image of God is speaking about the divine nature of God—it’s primarily love. God is love, and we’re told to love […]
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To know yourself and who you really are is the key to experiencing life the way God wants you to. But there are all these things pulling at us, telling us who we are…. an employee, a mother, a father, an uncle or sister, a boss or an owner, etc. Then we fall into what […]
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I get the privilege of watching my son grow into a man. As I sit here, he sleeps on the couch besides me, as our cat naps on him. Deep, rhythmic breaths gently lift his chest up and down peacefullly—a chest that will soon have the sounds of a man’s voice, lowered by the […]
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We are pressured into becoming mostly mindless, sensate, desire-fulfilling creatures of instinct. That’s how we are often expected to live and move and have our being. But one of the dignifying features of theism, and Christian theism specifically, is the acknowledgement that human beings are “more than” what our society pressures us into being. We […]
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“We live in an age in which it is considered a virtue to disbelieve and a vice to believe,” said Christian Philosopher, Dallas Willard. We need to understand the times in which we live, and Mr. Willard stated it precisely. We live in an extremely skeptical culture, especially in the United States. Our public schools […]
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