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12/30/2024 0 Comments

Omniscient

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​Our brains manage emotions, thoughts, memories (sensory, short and long-term), touch, vision, breathing patterns, and all the procedures that control our bodies.[1]  Scientists calculate the human brain storage capacity by gauging the connections between brain cells and decoding that number into bytes and computer memory units.  “A single byte comprises 8 bits, and the human brain can store more than one quadrillion bytes of data – a petabyte.”[2] Our brain’s memory capacity is equal to 2.5 petabytes of memory capacity. A “petabyte” translates into 1024 terabytes or a million gigabytes. An average adult brain can accumulate the equivalent of 2.5 million gigabytes of memory.  ​

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11/19/2024 0 Comments

Hidden Things

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Jesus performed many miracles in the cities He walked, which should have authenticated His message, and yet most of those He encountered would not repent of their sins. Their hardheartedness kept them from recognizing the hand of God’s Son at work and connecting their need to listen to Him. He criticized them for their attitude and warned them of God’s impending judgment (Matthew 11:20-24).
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9/17/2024 0 Comments

With My Eye on You

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It did not make sense. John needed to make a difficult financial decision, and the smart move, according to his advisor, was to invest in a quality dividend growth fund to gain more financial stability. But as he prayed about this, he did not have peace. More unsettling, He felt God leading him to give to a single mom in his church who was facing eviction from her apartment along with her two young children. He knew she could not pay him back if he gave her the money; to his surprise, his wife was okay with that.  She agreed with what John felt God was leading.  So, they gave Steph the money. ​

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12/17/2023 0 Comments

Making the Effort

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“If you cannot express yourself on any subject, struggle until you can. If you do not, someone will be the poorer all the days of his life.”[1] Did you catch the wisdom in Chambers’ exhortation? Poor or inadequate communication robs the listener of the rich opportunity to be bettered, wiser, and possess clear understanding.
There is an old joke about two hunters who are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He's not breathing, so his friend calls 911 and says to the operator, "My friend is dead! What should I do?" The operator replies, "Calm down, sir. First, make sure that he's really dead." There is silence, and then the operator hears a loud bang. Back on the phone, the man says, "OK, now what?"[2]

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6/19/2023 0 Comments

Using Discernment

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Ann faced a challenging situation in her new supervisory role with a nonprofit company that recently hired her.  One of the employees, Calista, who worked on a different team, was giving her a tough time.  Calista had applied for the job Ann now held and resented that she was not chosen.  She used Ann’s inexperience to belittle her on calls (shared by others in the organization) and was rude when speaking to her.  Ann realized she needed Calista’s help, but she first had to figure out a way to win her over, and that did not seem easy. So she asked for prayer from her close friends and asked God for His assistance.

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4/20/2023 1 Comment

The Critical Importance of Mentoring

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Will is a senior at Liberty University and a member of the Army ROTC program.  He will commission as an officer in less than a month. I was blessed when he asked me to help him create a sponsorship program for their ROTC department.  In this case, sponsors are older men or women who have served in the military as senior officers or NCOs and who are willing to be mentors to any of the cadets who would like to be paired with them to meet and learn and become better prepared to serve as officers.  With the help of four mature individuals I was able to recruit, we shared with several cadets who came out on a Monday evening to learn about the critical importance of mentoring.

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3/13/2022 0 Comments

Understanding Wisdom

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What is the source of wisdom? Is it academic institutions?  If we want to be wise is the best method to gain the highest degree and be immersed in learning institutions, listening to teachers and professors?  Or is it experience?  Do we agree with Confucius? “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” Will Rogers had a more colorful adaptation, “There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves.”

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2/13/2022 0 Comments

Explain This

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Proverbs 30:2-3--I am more stupid than any other man, and I lack man’s ability to understand. I have not gained wisdom, and I have no knowledge of the Holy One.

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12/1/2021 1 Comment

Fire

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When was the last time you sat beside a fire, alone, and able to think and meditate? The previous home owners left me a gift of numerous piles of dead branches all over the property. I guess they didn’t have time to burn anything but I still would label their actions a gift because they gave me plenty of reason to clear away brush piles and, in the process, burn.  There is something mesmerizing (and therapeutic) about sitting next to a fire and watching it reduce large masses to smoldering ashes. No branch escapes. All that feel the hot fury of flame are engulfed and reduced to residue. 

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11/13/2021 0 Comments

Why I Value Theology

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One would think that with the uncertainties of life and certainty of death, people would be intrigued, perhaps even obsessed, with knowing if there is a Creator and, if He in fact, has a plan for His creation. It amazes me how many people I meet who seem uninterested in what happens to them when they die. Yet, this is THE MOST IMPORTANT question everyone should want to know the answer to because one second after death will be too late to decide.  For this reason, among many, I value theology.

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8/21/2021 0 Comments

Necessitarianism

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Necessitarianism is “the doctrine that all events, including acts of the will, are determined by antecedent causes; determinism.”[1]  The word first came into usage in 1825.[2]  The philosopher Spinoza was the most famous defender of this metaphysical principle (the key groundwork of his Ethics[3]), considered as the strongest form of hard determinism which disputes the libertarian’s concept of free will.[4]

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7/15/2021 0 Comments

More Capacity

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Acts 9:22--But Saul grew more capable and kept confounding the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that this One is the Messiah.

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1/15/2020 0 Comments

Worldview

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​Ravi Zacharias wrote a book entitled The Logic of God.  In chapter one, “Behind Every Question,” he notes that whether a person is religious or irreligious, everyone has a worldview.  A worldview basically addresses four necessary questions: origin, meaning, morality and destiny.   A well-designed worldview should have true answers to each question and the answers overall should be coherent.  Ravi further shares three tests for truth which must be applied to any worldview: logical consistency, empirical adequacy and experiential relevance.[1]

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7/28/2018 0 Comments

Be Like Daniel

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Daniel 1:17—God gave these four young men knowledge and understanding in every kind of literature and wisdom.  Daniel also understood visions and dreams of every kind.
 
Daniel, probably in part because of my given name, has always been my hero.  In studying his Old Testament prophetic book that contains his story, there are at least five superb applications that ought to inspire us to be like him.

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9/8/2015 0 Comments

The Right Kind of Knowledge

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Colossians 1:9,10—For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you.  We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God.
 

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9/22/2012 0 Comments

Wow!

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Romans 11:33-36—Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments and untraceable His ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor? Or who has ever first given to Him, and has to be repaid? For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.
 

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5/15/2011 0 Comments

Urgency

​In his book Younger Next Year cowritten with Chris Crowley, Dr. Henry Lodge states that “Over 50% of all illness and injuries in the last third of your life can be eliminated by changing your lifestyle in the way we suggest.”[1]   The major way they suggest is to exercise forty-five minutes a day six days a week. Four of those workouts are aerobic and two involve weight training.  The reason most people grow weak and more susceptible to disease is directly attributed to their failure to exercise!

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11/21/2010 0 Comments

The Right Use of Knowledge

Knowledge is the gateway to freedom. But my freedom may cause another to become shackled. When this happens, the fragrance that once surrounded my thinking becomes a stench before God. Let me give a hypothetical cultural example. From Scripture, I learn that I am to love people. In American culture, it is common and acceptable in most situations for a man to hug a woman. Let us say I travel to India where such action is frowned upon. Because of my knowledge of Scripture and my own culture, I have no problem hugging an Indian woman in the presence of my Indian brothers because I am free to express love with no sense of guilt or temptation. Now two things have occurred.

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1/7/2007 0 Comments

Know

​The certainty of knowing is a medicine of incalculable worth.  I breathe knowing unseen air is present in this room.  I know (brake inspections help), my Subaru will slow down when I push my foot against the pedal.  If I miss eating several meals I am aware that I will easily get cold outside. After 23 years of marriage I have a good sense of what my wife will or will not do.  What I know shapes my behavior, reflects my beliefs and gives me a confidence that ignorance could not manufacture.  
 

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4/6/2004 0 Comments

Growth

​Spring is a tremendous spiritual illustration. Outside my window buds are bursting. The grass grows at a weekly clip but those green blades are in slow motion compared to the weeds.  Winter is over.  The great plant race is on and the God Who saw that creation was good is still watching.

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