Playing God

Now that I think about it, there’s a very real possibility that I love to be in control. Several years ago, I played a computer game called The Sims. If you’ve never heard of it, basically, with just a mouse and a keyboard, you’re able to quite...

Get Your Priorities Straight

Has anyone ever told you, “You need to get your priorities straight”? Not a fun piece of advice, but, if we’re honest, it’s usually true. Unfortunately, we live in a society that seems to be pushing us down a different path: the...

Let There Be Life

I’ve worked at many places over the years where pranks were a pretty common occurrence. And, while there were some pretty complicated long cons, my favorite was one of the more simple ones. Simple, yet elegant. It involved a very realistic-looking rubber snake...

When Prejudice Gets In The Way

The word “prejudice” gets thrown around a lot these days. At its core, it’s the idea that someone would make a negative snap judgment about someone else before they really know them. Maybe it’s an assumption about who that person is based on...

Choosing Ignorance

Ignorance is a funny thing. If you have it, you usually don’t know you have it. That’s the ignorance of ignorance. But maybe you’ve come face to face with your own ignorance before. A moment where everyone else knew a piece of information but you...

The Insignificant Ones

We can see the miraculous touch of Jesus on display throughout the gospel. How an encounter with him would change everything — in an instant. Lepers, blind men, the bleeding woman, they were completely transformed by a touch. John described Jesus like this: In...