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A Choice for Now

In my last post, Choosing Between Good Things, I mentioned I might have to put my blog on hiatus. I've decided that instead of a full stop, I'm going to post on it when I can instead of posting regularly. As for a few other choices going on in life, I've got those...

Choosing Between Good Things

I have things to plan and work for regarding the future, and to do so I must figure out what things to give up in the present, if only temporarily. I don't want to give things up. I feel like I shouldn't give up some of them. But I do need to at least consider doing...

Summarized Bible References to Get You Curious

Robust 80-year-old man claims mountain inheritance promised to him 40 years before. (Joshua 14:6-15) Two men get too big for their respective britches. One flees from the other in battle, the other dies after a very strong woman tosses a millstone on his head. (Judges...

The Two Kingdoms

There are two kingdoms: the Kingdom of the World and the Kingdom of God. You are in one or the other, there is no in between. You are taking one side or the other, even if you don't think you've chosen. By default we are in the Kingdom of the World, suffering and...

A Few Doctrinally Unimportant Questions

Sometimes when reading the Bible I have some questions. The ones I've picked for this post aren't particularly important, I was just curious. Please look them up yourself to see if you find anything different or something that explains more! (I haven't included...

Death? Hooray!

Yesterday evening during church, we sang the song "I'll Fly Away" by Albert E. Brumley. The pastor pointed out that we Christians are pretty weird singing songs about death that are upbeat and happy! We anticipate death! Not that we have a death wish, of course, we...

God, and Sustaining Happiness

While listening to an excerpt of Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis, I was caught and deeply touched by something. We humans constantly look for things other than God to make us happy, but nothing can because God is the one who has made us, invented us. A car is...

Learning Through Stories

This is a little connected to Humans and Stories. Once again, we humans love stories. We love telling them and hearing them. As we read, watch, listen to, or play stories, we learn. Sometimes these lessons are good and sometimes they're bad, depending on what the...

Humans and Stories

I have an entire dissertation, of sorts, about how we humans love stories and why. I wrote it about 8 years ago and it's a little long for blog format, so I'll try to shorten it and pick out the pertinent paragraphs. We humans love to hear and tell stories. We seem to...