Kitchen Duty!!

I like washing dishes. By hand. With lots and lots of hot soapy water. I don’t care if it’s just one plate, or a mountain of dishes with pans of slop. I also like using the dishwasher, though. The organizational challenge is enjoyable. Sweeping is fun too, as is mopping. Dusting is loads of fun, [...]

Four Things that can Cripple your Communication Without you Knowing

And communication makes or breaks everything you do. Everything. So this might be a little bit important to you (and to everyone around you), maybe. I don’t know. You’ll have to decide that for yourself. In case you missed my last blog post, there are four levels of communication that work like a gradient from [...]

How do you know that’s what that means?

As said by Mark Twain – “Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.“ Very true. But how ought we to be careful? Quite simple: don’t believe everything you read. Read multiple health books instead of just one, for example. Experiment, research, study. Agreeing with the first thing you hear is [...]

A Mountainous Vision

Last week I talked about a concept that I have found life-changing… a life principle that will re-energize your walk with God no matter what you are walking through – exciting or boring. This week I plan to expand on that principle a bit, or rather add upon it. I want to share with you [...]

Avast There and Listen Up! I Got Some’at To Say!

“God is wrong.” “God Never Forgets.” “What are the differences between being anxious to please God, and being anxious to please a man?” “God never has an opinion about anything.” “Is miserable. * cheerily *” “Is cannibalism wrong?” “Is polygamy wrong?” Those are just a few of the controversial statuses that I have propagated over [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I Want to Give Up

Sometimes, I just want to give up. Just drop everything, settle down peacefully in some small corner of Ireland with a wife, and read books. Of course, I would still be me… I would write, and learn things, and make websites, and probably start a church eventually. But I would forget about all these projects, [...]

Why Do I Want to be a Mom at Home?

* chuckles * Ahem. Well, I don’t want to be a mom at home. But several of my friends do, and one of them gladly offered to write a guest post about it for me. Wasn’t that nice of her? Yes, it was. Anyways, without further ado and preliminary pontification, here is Kaitlyn’s post. In [...]

Abdication

    AB’DICATE, v.t. [L. abdica; ab and dico, to dedicate, to bestow, but the literal primary sense of dico is to send or thrust.] 1. In a general sense, to relinquish, renounce, or abandon. 2. To abandon an office or trust, without a formal resignation to those who conferred it, or without their consent; [...]