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Learning

Dating

How you approach the dating process is more important than you can imagine. There is much at stake. What’s learned in the dating process will inform our relationships for the rest of our lives. One thing dating teaches us is patience. Most of us can’t wait to be in love. We watch the movies and…

Addiction

Addiction is easy. You become a slave. You don’t have to make any decisions if you’re a slave. The decisions are made for you. Somebody else owns you. Somebody else tells you what to do. Somebody else tells you when to get up. Somebody else tells you when to go to bed. Somebody else tells…

Honor Code

Honor means to “hold in high esteem.” In our culture, honor is reserved for those persons who’ve achieved a remarkable feat or attained a certain status. An athlete is honored for winning championships. Michael Jordan is considered the greatest basketball player in NBA history because he won six championships. Business leaders are honored for having…

Is There Truth I Can Trust?

We used to think the mind worked like a filing cabinet. We were given information and we would assign it to a particular file in our mental cabinet. When we needed to retrieve the information, we would reach into the appropriate file and pull it out. Now we understand the mind works much more like…

Spiritual Disciplines

I came across these classification of spiritual disciplines recently. These terms came from “The Spirit of the Disciplines” by Dallas Willard, and I strongly believe that these are valuable to be recorded and shared. Dallas’ list of spiritual disciplines, which are separated into two categories: Disciplines of Abstinence and Disciplines of Engagement Disciplines of Abstinence:…