Your favorite politician, or the political party you support, has a vested interest in NOT addressing the issues that make you go to the polls and vote for them. At the same time, most of these issues DO have a solution that no one wants.
My friend has been gone a year. Would she want me to go into a pit because I’m still grieving her untimely passing? Nope.
My birthday is this week, and so I’ve been in a reflective mood the past few days. As I’ve reflected, I had a sad realization: This is the year I lost my faith.
Grief is the human response to the realization of losing something we can’t replace. This weekend, I lost a dear friend. And the grief is here. But it isn’t grief without end, and ultimately my grief must push me to where all my convictions do–to Jesus Christ.
I have written infrequently over the past two years in my blog, mostly because I have been busy with the nuts and bolts of an expansive job. But the reality of my first two years in my new position is that the leaders in the SDB General Conference, both in local churches and at the Conference level, are under a targeted spiritual attack which is taking a toll on themselves, their families, and their churches. When we encounter such things, the Bible entreats us to pray. That’s where you come in.
There are an absurd number of people who are doing the internet wrong. In an effort to help my tiny corner of the internet get its collective nonsense together, I’ve compiled a list of helpful tips as you wander around the interwebs. Commit these strategies to memory, as they are guaranteed to simply your life and advance discourse in all the places you find yourself.
In Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, the main characters destroy one another. Increasingly, discourse in the West is becoming less and less civil as people take aim at one another. Such personal attacks are never appropriate for a Christ follower.
“…God is love.” -the Apostle John, in his first letter, verse 4:8b “Those who wish to succeed must ask the right preliminary questions.” -Aristotle, in Metaphysics “…Of course language is not an infallible guide, but
“…God does not give us gifts, talents and abilities so that we can look at one another and determine our relative worth to Him by them.”
America is in the midst of a food revolution. Never before have so many Americans cared so much about their food. Documentaries expose the conditions under which our mass produced food come to us.