First World Problems

We’ve all seen it: a kid opens 10 presents at Christmas and shouts for joy each time. No more than three hours later, this same kid is whining because he or she is bored and has nothing to do. We call this a First World problem, which, according to...

Choosing Freedom

Most of us don’t grow up thinking about yokes, or even knowing how they work. There are different definitions of the word, but we’re going to look at the way it’s used in the Bible. According to Dictionary.com, a yoke is “a wooden crosspiece...

Hyprocrite or Broken

My son has a terrible habit: he bites his nails. Not only is it gross, because he’s a four year old boy who picks his nose and plays with bugs, but he has bitten his nails so far down, he barely has any nails left! It’s so bad that sometimes he bites the...

What’s Your WIn?

My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call...

Know And Be Known

Opposites tend to attract one another, but it is those opposing characteristics and personality traits that tend to bring about the most conflict. Even introverts desire wholeness within relationships, but unfortunately the presence of conflict within relationships...

It’s Real

In college, I had the opportunity to write a paper on how God and evil can coexist. You know the arguments: “There is no way God could be loving, or maybe even exist, with all of the evil in the world today”. This was thrilling for me for two reasons....