Two Kinds of People

C. S. Lewis wrote this book [The Great Divorce] in 1945 in response to an author named Blake who wrote the “Marriage of Heaven and Hell”.  Lewis’ book is a response to that error.  Blake’s error is the philosophical belief that all roads lead to God.  They view the roads of life like radii of [...]

A One Song Band

Here’s a couple of pieces of interesting trivia that I’ve recently been mulling over in my mind: What U.S. city has the best-educated (per capita) population?  Seattle, Washington. What U.S. city has the highest (per capita) rate of non-religious, non-churchgoing people?  Seattle, Washington. What’s my point?  That education and religion do not necessarily go hand-in-hand.  And to extrapolate [...]

Planned Neglect

Tim Challies recently posted a column on “planned neglect” and how each of us (to some extent or another), neglect certain things in order to accomplish other things we deem as more important. It reminded me of a quote from Stephen Covey, which I discovered years ago in his First Things First book, when he penned [...]

50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do

Self-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life.  To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades.  Contrary to what you may have learned in school, a jack of all trades is far more equipped to deal with life than [...]

The World’s Largest Bookstore is Located in Wisconsin?

As an avid reader, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the world’s largest bookstore is virtually right in my own backyard.  If that is truly the case, I’m now up to three reasons to ever have to travel to Wisconsin. Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.  [...]

It’s a Good Thing…

While I know that the sins of the father are sometimes passed down to future generations, it’s a good thing to also know that all of my bad habits, quirks, shortcomings, sins, and physical defects are not necessarily passed on to my kids. This video illustrates what I mean.

Your Best Life: Now or Later?

Years ago, I heard a saying which went something like this: For Christians, the world we are currently living in will be the only hell-like experience that they’ll ever be exposed to.  And for unbelievers, this current world will be the only heaven-like experience that they’ll ever be exposed to. So when I recently listened to an intriguing sermon from John [...]

How to Know Who Your Friends Really Are

There’s an old addage which says that one can really know who their true friends are when it comes time to move from one house and into another.  A true friend (or someone that sincerely loves you) will always say “yes” and be there to help.  And a so-called friend (someone who might say they love you [...]

School’s Out

Congratulations to my son Matt who graduated from Hastings High School yesterday. In honor of this great achievement, I’ve created a slide show of Matt throughout the years. ***A special thanks to Mr. Alice Cooper for coming over to the house at the last minute to lay down the audio track for this presentation.  The background [...]

Darwin and Death

There is an old axiom which says: Those who do not know their opponent’s arguments do not completely understand their own. Throughout the years, I’ve carefully studied both sides of the evolution/creation debate and can say that I thoroughly understand the opposing viewpoints of each camp and can articulate the fundamental basics of each.  With [...]