I started my day mired in the gunk that grinds mental machinery to a screeching halt. So many negative thoughts ping-ponged between my ears! The worst part of it all? I was trying to have my morning quiet time—reading Scripture, praying, conversing with God—all that stuff believers are supposed to do. God has a sense […]
One of the key personal philosophies that guided me as an engineer can be worded as follows: “The first one to the river builds the bridge.” Whether it was creating a reusable block of code or establishing testbeds and running miles of cable in the lab, I found myself standing on the bank of many […]
In the last year I have read four “Bible at a glance” type books. Why undertake such a task? Why zoom out to the 10,000 foot level and take in the Bible in overview fashion? It seemed like a good idea at the start, and in fact the endeavor became a remarkable faith booster. We […]
Although the activity had no appearance on my bucket list I made a pilgrimage to Charlotte, North Carolina to visit the IKEA store. Many of the ladies in my circle of acquaintance go gaga over IKEA, and somehow shopping from a web page when a brick and mortar (or cinder block in this case) building […]
The doctrinal statement of the American Humanist Association, Humanist Manifesto II (dated 1973), states: “We find insufficient evidence for belief in the existence of a supernatural; it is either meaningless or irrelevant to the question of survival and fulfillment of the human race.” Is God real? Does He have personality or is God simply a […]
The late Napoleon Hill, famed self-help author, shared with radio listeners his list of the major causes of failure in life. Number one is the “habit of drifting through life without a definite purpose or a definite plan for attaining it…Drifting. Lacking in singleness of purpose. Lacking a plan for carrying out the purpose. There […]