The New Free ThinkersLife is like a million-piece puzzle. We live and acquire the pieces to this puzzle through our experiences. The pieces are diverse; some are pieces of love, some of pain, some of joy, and some of suffering. Maybe there are some pieces we wish we didn’t have, but all of them are needed in order [...]
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven” — Ecclesiastes 3:1 Elijha’s aggressiveness was because of the time he lived in. Daniel’s wisdom and understanding were given because of the kingdom he was placed in. God chooses people according to the situations he needs them for. Elisha [...]
Earthly relationships have a strong foundation in trust. In a relationship, trust is the emotion that allows us to believe the word of a person. Trust is the voice in our heads that tells us that it’s okay to open up our hearts to a person, that they won’t deliberately hurt us. However, there is [...]
Recently the town I live in got hit with two of the biggest storms I can remember. As we were shoveling through the first snow storm’s overly generous portions of snow it got increasingly difficult to move the snow. Soon the size of the snowbanks became insurmountable. They towered above us as seemingly impassable objects. [...]
It’s very easy to become self-centered in the twenty-first century. America has 5% of the worlds population, yet it is exposed to 40% of the world’s advertising; the most aggressive is directed toward adolescents. I feel God has assigned certain and very important duties to young people, one of them being that we must learn, [...]
When I was a young teenager, my friends and I would joke about someone having multiple personalities. This was always made in jest though it was a derogatory comment. Yet I never realized how right we were. While none of us actually had this psychiatric disorder, there is a parallel which is much deeper, much [...]
Did you do the same thing as me when you were little and making promises to your friends? You stuck your pinkie finger out there and said two of the heaviest words you could think of. “Pinky Promise?” Whether or not you realized the weight of those words, something inside you clicked with them. You [...]
Let me start with a confession: I’ve already broken one of my New Years Resolutions. I only made it nine and a half hours into the new year, and I was asleep for seven of those hours. I’m not proud, but I’ll let you know that I ate half of a chocolate bar… for breakfast. [...]
“The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.” – Albert Einstein (attributed) Credit cards are great, aren’t they? Like checks, credit cards allow us to purchase goods and services without carrying wads of cash around. And while you can run out of checks in your check book, a credit card can be used [...]
“Merry Christmas!!” said Anne to her neighbors as she walked down the road with her 5 year old son. Anne always went walking a few days before Christmas just to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. And every year she’d have the same response from people, a smile, a wave, and a Merry Christmas right back. [...]