[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] My original post on this topic concluded with these lines: Both living in truth and living in falsehood bring suffering. In my next post, I’ll talk about why the suffering that truth brings is better. Have you ever had a terrible, miserable, horrible, awful experience that, when it’s over, you lookContinue reading “Suffering That Hurts vs. Suffering That Helps”
Category Archives: RELATIONSHIP STUFF
What You Can’t Afford Not to Know About Your Marriage
[featured-image size=”featured” link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] DISCLAIMER: This post contains a lot of generalizations, named such because they are generally true. They may not be true about you or your relationship. One of the things I love about blogging is that I get to give away my secrets. In this post I’m going to teach youContinue reading “What You Can’t Afford Not to Know About Your Marriage”
The Reality That Is Making Me More Liberal (theologically)
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] People who don’t work with people day in and day out, in the trenches of their lives, can afford to philosophize about people, to make up abstractions, and talk about the rightness/wrongness of people in philosophical terms, holding people up to their abstractions and deciding who fits and who is lackingContinue reading “The Reality That Is Making Me More Liberal (theologically)”
Should Intolerance Be Tolerated?
I used to think it was hypocritical when people would claim to be tolerant, and yet not tolerate the intolerance of others. But should intolerance be tolerated? I now realize that if a person is truly tolerant, intolerance is a characteristic they MUST NOT tolerate. [Tweet this] Tolerance is actually a very low standard. ItContinue reading “Should Intolerance Be Tolerated?”
Decide to Never Let Fear Keep You from the Truth
The most significant moment of my moral life was the moment I decided to never let fear, or being offended, to keep me from considering whether something is true. Make that commitment and your life will never be the same. It’s the moral equivalent of taking the red pill. When you make that decision, youContinue reading “Decide to Never Let Fear Keep You from the Truth”
Who Are the Real Feminists?
I read an article this morning called Don’t Call Beyonce’s Sexual Empowerment Feminism. I’d recommend you read the article, but the gist of it is that Beyonce (and, by extension, all female artists who are using sex to sell records) is not a feminist, regardless of her claims to the contrary. I agree with theContinue reading “Who Are the Real Feminists?”
Michigan Gay Marriage Ban Struck Down
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”scales of justice gay marriage ban struck down”]123rf.com[/featured-image] It’s official. Michigan’s constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage has been declared unconstitutional. Things in Michigan are about to change, big-time. I was one of the people going to door to door having people sign petitions to get the gay marriage ban onto theContinue reading “Michigan Gay Marriage Ban Struck Down”
More Boundaries with Parents
Check out my first post on this topic What if the military were ordered to set up a perimeter around a certain area and keep people out, but kept complaining, “People are always coming up to us and begging us to let them through. It’s really hard not to! Or they keep just slipping throughContinue reading “More Boundaries with Parents”
Is Fear of Criticism Keeping You From Pursuing Your Dreams?
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] Do you sometimes feel like the main reason you don’t get busy pursuing some of your dreams is the fear of criticism? If so, I get it. I’m with you. Most of my life I had a passion for writing, but what kept me from really pursuing it was the fearContinue reading “Is Fear of Criticism Keeping You From Pursuing Your Dreams?”
How to Learn Humility
From this Sunday’s sermon… Trust me, the way to learn humility isn’t to cower in fear and refuse to be all you are gifted to be, criticizing those who are successful, thinking you could do so much better. It’s to get out there and take a few risks, use your gifts, and start letting lifeContinue reading “How to Learn Humility”
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