Category Archives: Wisdom

24
Apr

We Set Out To Control The Impossible To Avoid Responsibility For The Possible

We Have More Control Than We Think | Michael Hyatt. This is a great post from 2009 by Mike Hyatt. I think we not only get distracted by what we cannot control, but sometimes we want to be distracted by … Continue reading →

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17
Mar

Be your own miserable coach chasing you and yelling at you from the comfort of his golf cart

I have “decided” I should try to run regularly. I used “decided” in quotation marks for now. I think decisions are almost as hard to pin down as the absolute moment of the present, that infinitesimal razor’s edge separating past … Continue reading →

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21
Jan

Dying To Self: Adam’s Challenge In Eden to Become the King He Was

In basic Evangelical Christian teaching, “sanctification” is a process in which a believer, by the working of God’s Spirit, is able more and more to put off sin and live in more complete obedience to God. That way of summarizing … Continue reading →

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9
Jan

You have to remember what you want

Yesterday, about 4:30 in the afternoon, I was sitting at my work table and thought about two options: Go take a nap. Keep working. I thought I chose #2, but in fact I was mistaken about what my choices were. … Continue reading →

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7
Jul

Suffering evil trains you to discern between good and evil

In Hebrews 5.14, we read: “But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.” Discernment sounds like a valuable ability. So what does it take? … Continue reading →

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4
Jul

When babies have authority

If you put together everything that Paul says about the characteristics of children and the need to grow up, I think we can glean the following: Children need to be under authority, rather than be given authority. Children who are … Continue reading →

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4
Jul

Four reasons to memorize Proverbs

Credentials to speak on the subject: Until recently, I worked as a truck driver. Not really. I was a sanitation engineer. Not really. I was a portapottie guy. But it involved driving a truck at about forty minutes at a … Continue reading →

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17
Jun

The Greater Miracle

Situation seems hopeless. Needs are overwhelming. Why doesn’t God act? Why doesn’t he change everything around? But he doesn’t. And when we think about this, it is all over the Bible. God knocks down the walls of Jericho, but then … Continue reading →

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11
Jun

7 things wrong with trying to fix education to restore the American Dream

Listening to NPR on the way to work a few days ago, I heard yet another flawed story on education. A young guy made it out of the South Bronx and is now working on a higher level education degree … Continue reading →

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10
Jun

The Gospel of Growing Up

I wrote once that the basic message of the Bible is “Boy meets Girl.” But, for that to work, the virgin must mature into the bride and the boy must become a man. That doesn’t seem to be happening in … Continue reading →

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