Ask, Seek, Knock [from the Archives]

Sometimes the old things come back to teach us again. This is a message I really think I need to share again with you all. It is a repost from 2009, in my early blog days. Enjoy. Greetings, Matthew 7:7-8 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it [...]

Christ in Pain

When the chips are down. When the rubber meets the road. When all hell breaks loose, literally. When “things don’t quite turn out.” When your life is wrecked, devastated, turned upside down. When your heart is torn into shreds and fed to the dogs. When the worst thing you could imagine… happens. How is God [...]

Prayer Vs. Bible Reading: Which is Better?

Prayer is a beautiful, amazing, powerful thing. God’s Word is an even more beautiful, amazing, powerful thing. Or is it the other way around? Or… does it make any sense either way? I don’t think it does. I often hear people extolling one or other of these glorious things over the other one, and although [...]

Mastering the Art of Singletasking

Multitasking is a common buzzword right now. And it is both decried as having a viciant and virulent effect on our capability to function with facility, and as being the prime panacea of production. Which is right? Well, honestly, I don’t think either are right. I think multitasking has its place, and I think it [...]

Eccentricity, Mathematics, and Peculiar People

I am eccentric. Quite so. In fact, almost invariably so. And I quite like it. Now, when most people notice my eccentricity (and they do), they generally comment on how weird it is, and then make some comment about fitting in or having to still be able to communicate with people or something along those [...]

I Want to Forget

I have a pretty bad memory. Honest. Yes, I’ve trained it to be able to memorise things rapidly and securely, but I needed to do that because my natural memory is so bad. I’m so bad I can forget the topic of a conversation halfway through the third sentence. I’m even having a hard time [...]

Who is More Spiritual?

On the Rebelution forums I recently replied to a thread asking about spirituality and what it means. The starter of the thread pointed out that people often use the word ‘spiritual’ in a derogatory way (either in the sense of “I am more spiritual than you” or “he is so spiritual”), and was wanting to [...]

A Cheerful Misery

Things have been really hard in my life lately. Really hard. When God starts changing someone, it seems like everything hits him at once. At least that is how it happens in my life. Everything in my life gets turned upside down and inside out, beaten to pieces, and the chaff burned to smoke and [...]

Honor vs. Respect

Greetings, I recently wrote a post on the Rebelution forum in reply to a question about respecting and honoring our parents. I thought you all would like to read it as well. ——- Respecting and honoring your parents is inextricably connected with obeying them. To refuse to obey is to refuse to honor and respect [...]

Duck! Zombie Attack!

Greetings, I am not a conspiracy theorist. I am not a doom-and-gloomer. (Not even sure how do define those guys either.) Of course I believe the end of the world is coming (I mean, duh, it’s gotta end sometime). But I don’t necessarily think it is coming soon (depending on what you mean by ‘soon’). [...]