Crazy quizzes pop up on every Facebook Feed. I confess. I love them. They are fun. What dwarf are you? What city should you live in? What color is your aura? What dog breed are you? In a world where time is a premium, what compels us to take nonsensical ...
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Ten Things To Know BEFORE You Get Married
Ten Things To Know BEFORE You Get Married By John Livingston Clark Here are ten essential things to know about the other person before you get married. If they are not revealed and discussed there is the potential for problems. 1. Do they have past unresolved emotional issues? Are there ...
Read More »Lessons from the Island of Berk
Every movie has an agenda with lessons to teach and lessons you can learn regardless of what it intended to teach. For better or worse, here are 8 lessons I found within the movie, “How to Train Your Dragon 2”. Worldly Lessons 1. “Independence” (depending only on yourself without ...
Read More »Because He Loves You
Why did He do it? Why did He wait two days, letting his dear friend die before going to him? Surely if He loved him he would not have left him waiting until there was no hope. What about his grieving sisters, Mary and Martha? They couldn’t understand why Jesus ...
Read More »Suing Mr. President
Today for the first time in history the US House of Representatives has voted to sue the President of the United States. As one would expect, the votes were almost entirely partisan. All democrats voted against the lawsuit and all but a handful of republicans voted to go forward with ...
Read More »OUR HOPE: Are You Called To Be A Disciple?
Think of the twelve disciples. Twelve very distinct personalities, from twelve very different backgrounds, and with twelve very different ideologies. Yet all were chosen by Jesus Himself. All had quite significant roles to play in God’s plan. A tax collector, a few fishermen, and even a doctor among them, the twelve lived, ...
Read More »Biblical Discipline in a Time-Out World
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him. Proverbs 13:24 (ESV) Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul ...
Read More »Mercy Outruns Malice
In Victor Hugo’s novel, Les Miserables, peasant Jean Valjean served 19 years imprisonment due to stealing a loaf of bread for his starving family. Upon release, angry and bitter, he had no home and slept on the streets. A Catholic Bishop gave him shelter one night but Valjean ran off ...
Read More »Bad Bosses
The title above may sound like a television series or a rap song, but it’s referring to neither. It’s meant to be taken literally. It is what it is; bad bosses… are an unpleasant fact. They are like annoying little flies that you want to desperately smack, but if you ...
Read More »Which Party does God Support?
Which Party does God Support? These days it seems our nation (and many Christians) is more polarized than ever. So, one may wonder, whose side is God on, anyway? Democrats claim to be for the little people, the poor, and the disenfranchised. They like to spend lots of taxpayer dollars ...
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