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The longer I live, the more I realize that a big situation is quite frequently affected by all the smaller ones that went into it. A few negative examples: A building decays a little at a time, with a crack here, a loose brick there, a tree root slowly working it's...

In church last night we talked about obedience, and these are a couple things I wrote down: You have to know the rules to obey them. If I don't know the speed limit, I can't adjust my speed for it. I can make an assumption based on what I've experienced on other...

I was playing a computer game the other day and got a lot done within it. I felt pretty accomplished, and that made me feel good. But then I thought about how these were not real accomplishments. While I was more successful in the game, nothing had changed in real...

We humans are social creatures - even we introverted folk. God made us to need each other. The first thing recorded in Bible that God said is not good is about man being alone (Genesis 2:18). God also gave humans the ability to reproduce and said to do so (Genesis...

Yesterday I came across Hebrews 12:1-2 again, and I got to thinking about what it means to lay aside weight. I then thought of backpacking. It's not the same object lesson as the race being run in Hebrews (for a bit on that see Running the Race), but I did get to...

In my Bible reading I've been in the book of Job. Job loses everything except his wife. His riches are gone, his children are dead, and he is very sick and miserable. So three friends come to comfort him. They do pretty well at first. They just sit in silence with Job...