Category: Faith

As C.S. Lewis pointed out in Mere Christianity, a person only finds out how strong temptation really is by continually resisting it. Someone who give in after only a few minutes has no idea how powerful and evil sin is, they are the ones who are actually sheltered. Jesus was the only realist because he… Continue reading Realist

Can you only consume ‘spiritual junk food’ and expect to be spiritually fit? With computing there is a saying, ‘garbage in, garbage out’. The quality of the data you put into a program will not be exceeded by what comes out of it. If you only feed in data that agrees with your particular hypothesis,… Continue reading Garbage In, Garbage Out

Divine justice is complicated. Sometimes bad things happen to good people, sometimes evil goes unpunished. There is not always a direct correlation between how people act and the blessings (or consequences) they receive — at least not from our limited human perspective. The world and the reasons for things happening as they are, are within… Continue reading Justice

There are no promises of comfort, or health, or wealth on this side of heaven. You can do everything right — work hard and get a good education, but that is no guarantee that you will be successful or happy all the time. However, a lack of guaranteed success, much less happiness, does not spell… Continue reading Happiness

Feelings often drive us to choose what to do. Tolstoy observed this 100 years ago in the Russian upper class where they were consumed by ‘pointless activity’, Tolstoy relates to it like this: “My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink, and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but… Continue reading Feelings