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Heal Tomorrow’s Families

Most kids today either don’t know their fathers or wish they didn’t. Could this come from having prioritized romance above family?

Young men ask, “Who is the right wife,” when they should ask, “Who will be the right mother?” You know she will respect your kids if she respects you. But no one wants to wait.

Those who wait patiently are constantly pushed, pressured, questioned, suspected, and slandered by those who want an excuse to distract themselves from their own failed choices.

Don’t worry about other people’s choices. Mind your own life. Do we know what we need? God does.  · · · →

Access Each Other

Conservative Christians criticize the President’s glaring hypocrisy. Centrally-facilitated Health Care, from an unhealthy government was always doomed. The people can demand that institutions and companies be financially responsible, but a bankrupt government can’t.

The Religious Right has done a wonderful job of pointing out the obvious, selectively. But they have their own hypocrisy. Republicans vote against central-planning every November, then fund it every Sunday.

American “church” has more central-planned friendship, with more bureaucracy, than any Left Wing politician’s wildest dream. Jesus not only allows us to access the Father directly, but also each other. Cleaning up hypocrisy starts at home.  · · · →

Who can Make You?

Whoever makes you can break you.

That’s how guilds work. This includes professional career guilds—which are all about references, political guilds—which demand party loyalty over loyalty to voters, popularity guilds—which value social acceptance over ethics, and the guild of para-church organizations—which primarily measure membership through weekly attendance and, secondarily, through evidence of growth in Christ.

Joining a guild is fast, easy success. When someone is responsible for bestowing your success, you can fall from their grace for reasons unrelated to your work, skill, or values.

Those who make history, however, are less referable and more quotable.  · · · →

The Wisdom of Uniqueness

When we live in denial, we confuse our own rejection of the truth with our own uniqueness and creativity. The truth is every bit as unique as we are. Truth defines us. We can’t redefine truth anymore than someone else can redefine us.

Individual creativity seeks to learn which things we can and cannot define, from having the courage to express the ideas we can.

Foolishness is the rejection of truth’s uniqueness. When our own foolishness fails, we always think the universe is trying to manipulate us, when, maybe, the universe, and its Author, are trying to teach us something.  · · · →