The Role Of The Family
I tell this to my son often…watch what I do! The challenge for me as a parent, a father, and a man is that if my son is going to watch what I do, then is it not critical how I act? Defining the role of the family has become »
Hebetude
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] So you did not know that you suffer at times from hebetude. We all do! This is a word that I had to look up when reading recently in the Sabbath Exercises readings of Thomas Chalmers (1780-1947) the Scottish minister and divine who was the subject of my Masters’ »
I Just Called To Say I Love You
So what do we say to our children; we who certainly lack perfection; we who become weary; we who are quickly frustrated; we who battle with selfishness; we who never experience days of complete contentment with everything and everyone around us? What do we say to them when we say »
How do I help my child pay attention
Can the ability to pay attention predict the future success of your child? A recent article (here is a link to the article) in Education Week suggests just that. The study from Oregon State concludes that youth who can pay attention and are able to stick with a task have a better chance »
The Walking Dead
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Have you ever seen dead men walking? You can go back in time to a Church in Sardis (present day Turkey) or you can look around you and see abundant evidence in churches today. The letters to the seven churches in Revelation are thought by some to speak to »
Teaching vs Training
There is a world of difference in teaching vs training. Teaching is the verbal imparting of truth, whereas "training" applies those teachings moment by moment, day after day. The dictionary defines "Train: to mold the character, instruct by exercise, drill, to make obedient to orders, to put or point in »
Can playing video games make you sick?
Can playing video games make you sick? Apparently, they can if you play for hours on end ignoring all other needs for sustaining life. A teenager was recently hospitalized after playing video games for 4 straight days. I know this is an anomaly and not happening everyday but it has »
Prowling Lion, Devouring Menace
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] There is a cosmic battle taking place in the world; one that permeates the stories we create for ourselves, whether to entertain, tell our own or someone else’s story, or simply because this is the way it is in the universe where we live and the truth of it »
“A Woman Needs a Man Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle?”
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] This title is Gloria Steinem’s statement that provided a mantra for the feminist movement in the past century. Possibly, Eve could have said something similar after Adam excused his own sin in answer to God by blaming her! The historical account is that Eve succumbed to the cunning of »
How Many Glasses of Water Have You Drunk Today?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] This has been a hot summer in most places across the country. Glasses of water have been in great demand lately. In recent days the heat has contributed to the ripe conditions for forest fires in the West, drought conditions and scorched crops in the Midwest, along with power »
Practicing The Presence Of The Devil
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A Carmelite monk of the seventeenth century known as Brother Lawrence wrote a Christian Classic titled Practicing the Presence of God. It’s still in print after 300 years. Practicing the presence of the devil could be taken as the opposite of practicing God’s presence, but that is not what »
Mobile Pornography
Pornography has been around for awhile. The ancient Greeks and Romans created public sculptures that depicted sex acts you cannot see in R-rated movies still today. Shortly after photography was invented in 1826, photos of nude women surfaced. From magazines to DVD'S to the the Internet, pornography is available everywhere. »
