One of my favorite words is "purpose." The reason for this is because I'm convinced that it is a sense of purpose that enables a person to endure the hard work of becoming who you really are. And make no mistake, discovering who you really are is not just difficult, but absolutely impossible without some…
C.S. Lewis said it best: "Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important." So true! You see, the Christian Faith isn't merely a set of moral teachings. All religious systems have that, and most of them are fairly similar. The Christian…
There are actually some people who welcome facing hard truths. I'm not one of them, but surely there has to be one! Dr. David Hawkins once said "Healing always involves facing truths we'd rather not face and accepting responsibility we'd rather not accept."
I wonder why that is? What is it about facing up to reality…
The lady was being interviewed on British television about the steep decline in church attendance in Britain. You've seen these "man on the streets" reports. The reporter goes out and talks to random people about a certain subject, and what usually happens is that these reports reveal just how uninformed or inattentive many people are…
In A.D. 70 the Roman general Titus surrounded the city of Jerusalem. The Empire had had enough of rebellions of the Jews and sought to bring to an end to the rebel's take over of the city in A.D. 66. The total destruction of the Jewish Temple during the Roman attack brought to an end…
And they're off! The sales, the markdowns, the deals, all conspiring to get us to spend, spend, spend. The competition is hot. The deals are unrepeatable. Knock that person ahead of you down. Reach across that lady's grasp. Get here first! Fight, fight, fight!
No thanks. Black Friday sales and the whole hoopla associated with it…
I hated what was coming and, what made it worse was, it was unavoidable. It was a confrontation with a supervisor that had been building for some time, and it wasn't going to be pretty. As he and I sat in the office of the consultant that the company had brought in to help several…
We are a people strongly shaped by an inherent mistrust of all authority except our own and we hold to the notion of equality to the point of idolatry. This might be good for having a culture shaped exclusively by free market ideals and entrepreneurship, but it might not serve us well in embracing ideas…
One of the most fundamental marks of maturity is the clear and unmistakable realization that actions have consequences. Ideas have consequences because they become actions. And avoiding consequences is always a sign of immaturity.
No wonder our modern world is struggling, as it has always struggled, with the consequences of ideologies and actions. And we see…
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