The best thing about words is they can lead to some funny moments. The other day my just-turned-four year old asked for some “raw toast.” That’s one way to ask for bread. Even funnier was my other daughter. A few months ago before my wife gave birth to our third, my oldest daughter very … [Read more...]
Words Mean Very Little (The Frivolity of Words Pt 1)
One of the most important things we can learn about communication is words mean very little. You know how we might hold onto words someone said to us from our childhood or something our spouse said when they were angry? Yeah, those are all things we should’ve thrown in the garbage a long time ago. … [Read more...]
The 5 Types of Communicators
Fun Fact: This is my 600th post Life was made to be simple: Work to eat and drink, eat and drink, connect with others, and rest – that’s basically it. Life is so simple there are only three primary colours, seven basic facial expressions, and even four types of chromosomes (metacentric, … [Read more...]
Is Depression a Sin? (Seven Deadly Sins Pt 6)
Last week I shared my belief that sin isn’t a checklist, which leads to pride and judgement; it’s more a way of life, and, therefore, doesn’t have to be something we’re scared of doing because, as I taught the week before that, sin is something that should lead us to praising God – a very different … [Read more...]
Your Sin/Weakness is a Gift (Seven Deadly Sins Pt 5)
Over the last few weeks we’ve been looking at the Seven Deadly Sins because they’re a nice way of condensing what’s considered sin into seven basic categories (yea for simple). The most interesting thing I learned from my limited research on the topic is how every sin is connected to how we’re not … [Read more...]
Can God Appreciate Porn? (Porn Pt2) I believe the devil has three main goals: To make us so ashamed of ourselves we hide from God like in the Garden of Eden To cause division between people To make good people hide from the world in order to prevent them from making it better I can’t … [Read more...]
The Seven Deadly Sins: The Dyson Culture Pt2
I’m not Catholic, but the Catholic Church was brilliant when they came up with the Seven Deadly Sins. At one point this list inspired people to be better. Now it seems like they’re a lot of people’s goals: lust, laziness, gluttony, greed, and pride – that pretty much summarizes our Dyson culture. … [Read more...]
The Dyson Culture – Our culture sucks
I keep meeting people who say they find our me-focused culture scary and they want me to help with the anxiety it causes them. They’re often surprised by my response: “The good news is you should feel anxious because our culture sucks hard, but let’s look at some options to help.” I like to call … [Read more...]
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