Being nice isn’t always clear cut. It can actually be confusing, and if you start thinking about whether something is nice or not, it’s easy to over think the variables (thereby not being nice to yourself). But let’s consider some options to demonstrate what I mean. The other week I was writing a … [Read more...]
Be a Light to the World
One of the most common complaints I hear lately is that the world seems dark. The biggest problem I have with this complaint... is I can’t deny it – the world seems pretty dark. Whether it’s the influence of selfishness promoted through social media or the lack of healthy religious influence that … [Read more...]
Even God’s Not Worried about Words? (The Frivolity of Words Pt 3)
The last few lessons we’ve looked at how a wise person doesn’t give words very much power because there’s so much risk for misunderstandings between the speaker not finding the best words to share, the listener not hearing things properly, and our memories messing it up. When listening, it’s wise … [Read more...]
Words Mean Very Little (The Frivolity of Words Pt 1)
One of the most important things we can learn about communication is words mean very little. You know how we might hold onto words someone said to us from our childhood or something our spouse said when they were angry? Yeah, those are all things we should’ve thrown in the garbage a long time ago. … [Read more...]
Is Depression a Sin? (Seven Deadly Sins Pt 6)
Last week I shared my belief that sin isn’t a checklist, which leads to pride and judgement; it’s more a way of life, and, therefore, doesn’t have to be something we’re scared of doing because, as I taught the week before that, sin is something that should lead us to praising God – a very different … [Read more...]
Your Sin/Weakness is a Gift (Seven Deadly Sins Pt 5)
Over the last few weeks we’ve been looking at the Seven Deadly Sins because they’re a nice way of condensing what’s considered sin into seven basic categories (yea for simple). The most interesting thing I learned from my limited research on the topic is how every sin is connected to how we’re not … [Read more...]
Can God Appreciate Porn? (Porn Pt2) I believe the devil has three main goals: To make us so ashamed of ourselves we hide from God like in the Garden of Eden To cause division between people To make good people hide from the world in order to prevent them from making it better I can’t … [Read more...]
The Seven Deadly Sins: The Dyson Culture Pt2
I’m not Catholic, but the Catholic Church was brilliant when they came up with the Seven Deadly Sins. At one point this list inspired people to be better. Now it seems like they’re a lot of people’s goals: lust, laziness, gluttony, greed, and pride – that pretty much summarizes our Dyson culture. … [Read more...]
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