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Utopia and the Strife of Life
So I recently found out about a man named John B. Calhoun who built a utopia for mice (specifically Universe 25). Go look up the details, it's all oddly interesting. But spoiler alert: it didn't work. The experiment was conducted to study social behavior, and some...
Have Faith and Prosper
I would like to talk about what it really means to prosper with your faith. Rarely does it ever mean physical gain. It always has to do with spiritual gain, but hardly ever physical gain. Having faith does not guarantee physical wealth and health. Quite often, having...
Knowing and Knowing
Knowing about someone and knowing who they are, those are two different things. I can know a lot about a celebrity, but without being friends with them I won't really know them like I know other people around me. I can know someone's favorite color, shoe size, food...
Volition and Personal Responsibility
We often look to blame others for the things that happen to us. Things can't ever be our fault. But whatever part others have played in our situation, we cannot absolve ourselves of personal responsibility for the part we have played in it, and the part we can still...
Secular or Sacred?
We Christians often divide things in life based on whether they are worldly or whether they are spiritual, calling them secular and sacred respectively. Sometimes we refer to the work we do as either secular or sacred. But sometimes there is no difference between the...
“Come As You Are”
I was thinking about how we come to Jesus to get saved. We come as we are, but also we can't be accepted as we are. I'll explain. We humans are sinful by our very nature (Psalm 14:1-3; Romans 3:10-12), and we do not meet the requirement of perfection to be in the...