There are a lot of things we can’t understand. I mean, things very few people have ever fully understood. So here’s a few I’ve come up with: Infinity I will start out the concept of infinity because many of the others are not understandable due to this concept. As humans, we live in […]
Screwtape Letters is a book by C.S. Lewis from the perspective of a highly placed demon to a novice tempter on how to properly tempt his “patient”. It is an absolutely phenomenal book and is among my favorites. In this post, I would like to highlight some of the principles that this book talks about. This […]
Most people today like to plan. They plan out their lives and what they will do to achieve a certain result. The problem is that they are usually not following God’s calendar. They hold on to their plans and create a certain path they “need” to follow. They aren’t pleased when God taps them on the […]
Today I am writing about kindness, but not because this is something I understand. I struggle with kindness, but God laid it on my heart to write about something I am not good at. As you may remember from some of my other blogs, my primary gift is prophecy, which is not the most compassionate […]
A while ago I hiked through a creek with my brother and a friend. While I was clinging to roots hoping they wouldn’t break or walking on a log over the water hoping it wouldn’t roll, I worried about what might happen if one if us were to fall. I reminded myself that wherever I […]
I recently returned from an all week mission with my youth group, and while I was there, I gathered some inspiration. This post will have a mix of topics, so bear with me. First, I realized the power of prayer. I have a coin that has written on it 1 John 5:14,” This is the […]
I am taking a spiritual gifts class at my church and have discovered my primary gift is prophesy. I would say that the gift of prophesy is one of the rarest and most disliked of the seven gifts, which are leadership/administration, mercy, exhortation, giving, service, teaching, and prophesy. This gift is mainly disliked because of […]
This Christmas season, I have been reminded of the true reason we celebrate Christmas. God has brought my family back to what Christmas is all about through a series of events. Two of my aunts are sick and in the hospital. Because my aunt is sick, my mom drove to Atlanta to help her husband and […]
Yesterday, my dad, brother, and I went on an eight mile canoeing trip down the Flat Rock River. Our first discovery is that it is very difficult to row a canoe in shallow water. We went on a day with a low water level and faced many shallow rapids and shelves of flat rock […]
In my social studies class, we studied European cultures, and we where assigned a project. We could choose to either do a report on a Roman god or choose one of many other projects. I chose to build a Roman gladiator’s shield. I thought about how the Romans where a strong […]