OK, achievement hunter. Tell me about your big ideas, dreams, and plans. Or are you an achievement hunter with lots of awards and trophies? Maybe you can speak three languages, program computers, and engineer bridges. Or maybe you make sure people know you for your: philosophical meanderings, cataclysmic discoveries, geographical conquests, sharp ear for nuance, acute awareness of your surroundings, world-changing inventions, modern machinery, … Read the rest…
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Fortunately you were designed with all your vital organs…fully developed and ready for about 75 years (on average) of non-stop use. You’re an awesome feat of engineering…not merely a random string of events. You didn’t evolve. So, you don’t have to evolve into anything better. Your designer loves you just the way you are. Vital organs are, by definition, absolutely necessary. Yeah, a missing … Read the rest…
Eat at home little social gnome
“If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home.” That quote from 1 Corinthians doesn’t sound very hospitable does it? There are times in Paul’s writings where he sounds a tad harsh. At least if you take his message out of context. But if you zoom out a bit and see what he’s actually talking about and why, it’s easier to understand the love … Read the rest…
Is long hair on men a disgrace in the eyes of God? No. I only bring it up because of a discussion about long hair on men I saw on social media. I’m gonna share something I shared, about long hair on men, 13 years ago here on my website. It seems like this issue should’ve been clear a long time ago. But here … Read the rest…
At the risk of sounding like a guy who wears rose-colored glasses, I believe Heaven holds a place for dreamers. Of course, I believe you don’t get to Heaven because you’re a dreamer or a visionary. And I don’t include secular humanists, atheists, and other garden variety pagans. Because their ideas of dreaming tend to get perverted. By the way, you can experience a … Read the rest…
Am I smart enough? Do I know enough? Those are two big questions that parents of school age children ask when they contemplate the idea of homeschooling. But, according to a very popular homeschool method, those questions focus in the wrong direction. Your kids’ education doesn’t depend on you being smart enough. Here’s what the Charlotte Mason homeschool method says about it. Those questions … Read the rest…
Who doesn’t enjoy a fairy tale? Or at least an interesting fictional story? So, imagine, if you will (and you must), a tiny speck of dust. I call it dust in order to create a word picture. Can you see it in your mind’s eye? OK, now that tiny speck of dust is just floating around in, let’s call it space. Or is it … Read the rest…