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I am a Christian, husband, father, church member, professor, & teacher who wants to help fellow pilgrims on our way to the Heavenly City.
Tag Archives: mental health
Don’t Confuse Happy With Easy
A great way to ruin your life is to equate happy with easy. It sounds harmless. Who doesn’t want an easier life? But once easy means happy, hard has to mean unhappy. So every hard thing gets refused and every … Continue reading
You Only Have Three Choices in Hard Times
When you meet a hardship in life, it is helpful to know you have three options. You Can Stop Quitting is always an option and it isn’t always a bad one either. If the pain or harm of something isn’t … Continue reading
The Hidden Map Behind Every Culture War
You have probably been in this conversation before. You’re talking with a friend, a family member, or a stranger online about something you both care deeply about like sexuality, justice, parenting, politics, or faith. No matter what you say, no … Continue reading
How Do I Know It’s Gossip?
I think (I hope) all Christians know gossip is sin. If you don’t, read the Bible for like 5 seconds (Psalm 34:13; Proverbs 10:26; 15:4; 18:13; Ephesians 4:29). What exactly is gossip, you may ask? I like Matthew Mitchell’s definition, … Continue reading
Why Smartphones Aren’t Smart for Our Kids
Protecting kids is a see-saw between over-doing it (i.e. helicoptering) or under-doing it (i.e. neglecting). The extremes are easy to identify. Finding the golden mean is difficult, especially when our kids live in two different worlds: the real world and … Continue reading
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The Saturdays Post(s)
10 Resolutions for Mental Health. John Piper with a great list. I appreciated #10 a lot. “I shall bet my life on the assumption that this world is not idiotic, neither run by an absentee landlord, but that today, this … Continue reading
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