Every Careless Word (Yikes, Luke, yikes!)
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf I’m a preacher riding a donkey, surely I can’t be accused of wording things poorly. Right?
Atheism, Possible Futures, and Dadgum Microsoft Clippy
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is a serious post, and don’t let Clippy tell you otherwise. Shucks, don’t even let him into your home. He’s a sociopath!
Why I Avoid Watching Porn, Even When “Premium is Free”
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you look at what is fake for too long, you will begin to find faults in what is real.
A Selfish Love
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you have never read CS Lewis’ book, “The Four Loves,”go and buy it immediately. There is a selfish love in humanity which is no love at all—”If I can’t have you, no one will.” Or perhaps, “If I can’t be happy, I’ll make sure that you aren’t, either.” Contrast this “love” with appreciative love. “Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should…
Becoming the Greatest Good [Guest Post]
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is a guest post from Temitayo Adebisi Adekunle, a Nigerian-born microbiologist. Look at the beginning of verse 1: “Therefore be imitators of God.” The goal of the Christian life is perfect imitation of God. The apostle John said that one day, “we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.” So, really, the whole of the Christian life is summed up right here: be imitators…
Sinception: The Ineffable Horror of Becoming Lost in Your Lies
Reading Time: 2 minutesInception was nifty movie in a way. The protagonists infiltrated people’s dreams and manipulated them, effectively making them a lie within a lie…within a lie. Each level of “lie” you went deeper, the greater the chance that you’d never find your way back to reality. The same is true of sin. When we try to hide or keep a sin, we tend to pile on additional lies, building a foundation…
New Logo Courtesy of Sarah Lefor Art and Illustration
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI have a new logo designed by Sarah Lefor Art and Illustration.
Bridges to Burn
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSometimes when Christians don’t have inner peace (*raises hand*), it’s because they’re living two lives: talking about Jesus during the day, and getting smashed at night. Assembling on Sunday, and stealing on Monday. The ultimate problem is that they’re clinging to the deeds of the flesh from their pre-Christian days, and unwilling to leave it all behind. Sometimes burning bridges behind us is entirely profitable. When Elijah found Elisha and…
Recent Market Activity
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI divested around 80% of my market holdings in mid 2019 as I felt that market internals were flimsy. While I had no “one real worry,” I was concerned that any one unforeseen event could precipitate a rapid decline in valuations. For the past few weeks, I’ve been making quick trades from the recent bottom. I have a separate brokerage in which I’ve invested long-term, and I’m currently in the…
A Polish Friend’s Understanding of Judging
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy friend Justyna was talking to me about how sometimes Christians focus a ton on being right—and it is good to be accurate—but only so that they can point out where others are wrong. For a Christian, there are basically three types of judging: Number 3 is nominal. It’s observation coupled with loving action. We should remember that the kingdom of God is not a matter of being right and…
Navy Secretary Fires Entire Crew of USS Roosevelt for Cheering CPT Crozier
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Courage, integrity, and taking care of each other, those are values that must come last in our nation’s fighting forces. Well, actually, speaking truth to power comes dead last, which this was. So obviously, we’ve dishonorably discharged all of those enlisted mongrels. Their free healthcare is obviously immediately terminated, too,” Modly said.
Losing a Loved One and Letting Go
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
Featured photo by Sarah Lefor Art and Illustration.
Regrets, Tears, and Sadness
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere are so many regrets that I have, and so many wrongs that I wish that I could undo, but I can’t. And today I got a notification on Facebook: she’s having her birthday in 4 days! But she passed away just recently. I cared for her a lot, and she shaped my ideals of what a good woman is like. I cannot wait for eternity to truly set in. …
Dr. Love-is-a-Superstition or: There is No Such Thing as You
Reading Time: 3 minutesThey don’t believe that there is an immaterial soul which exercises causal power on material reality. All that you are, therefore, is your body (including your brain). Since the brain, as a physical object, follows the laws of physics and chemistry, then your thoughts/decisions must also follow the laws of physics and chemistry.
China Says Shocking Uptick in Urn Sales Just Because They Have Too Much Money
Reading Time: 2 minutesChinese citizens have been ordered to stay in their houses and to wear masks, so that they don’t accidentally inhale any of the currency, which could choke and possibly kill them. When too many Chinese currency notes are inhaled, a distressing respiratory illness can occur.
The Misery of Rancid Crabtree
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRancid was poor.
But he taught the best lesson.
The Girl with All the Gifts
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere’s always something that’s most important.
If you lose your Why, you lose your Way.
Reading Time: < 1 minute“If you want to go fast – go alone. If you want to go far – go together.”
Grudges and Bitterness
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBitterness is the alcoholism of the emotional realm. Don’t use it to try to feel better.
Set Your Face
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome people dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them. Recently my mentor/hero/friend Luke Wilson accomplished some awesome physical goals, and I was wondering why people even in the military fail such goals. At the same time, I was thinking about much Luke has done in the lives of others, taking care of them physically, emotionally, and spiritually. We accomplish much when we are resolute; when we “set our faces.” The…
Stuck on a Communist Isle
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn update on life as it moves along. A video of swimming, and a picture of some of my progress in enhancing my own life-support machine for my brain.
Golfing and Trust
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAre golfing and Jesus connected? Well, if you strain enough, they sure are.
Boeing Celebrates 737 Max Being Carbon Free for 1 Year
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBoeing celebrated it’s Boeing 737-Max being greenhouse-gas free for one year recently, inviting investors to lap up more stocks of the stupendous aircraft company.
The Fake Handbag of Destiny
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn his book, “The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone—Especially Ourselves,” Dr. Dan Ariely performed a study on people who owned knock-off items.
Trump Says He Prevented Chinese Hackers from Installing COVID-19
Reading Time: < 1 minute“We’re rebooting in safe mode, so that’s why you’re quarantined. Chy-nuh is clever. Any of you could be a virus, we don’t know, we don’t know. All of CNN is infected, they’re fake news.”