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The other night, I attended a ceremony that marked the beginning of manhood for the son of a friend. He was turning thirteen and his father was explaining the qualities of a Godly man that he should strive to attain. The one that jumped out at me the most was “Rejecting Passivity”. This is an [...]

We spent about nine years of our life separated from our extended family by about 180 miles. During that time, we made many drives for holidays, special occasions, and random visits. We did it enough that we usually preferred to get back to our own home rather than stay in a hotel. The result was [...]

Watch a few baseball games and, eventually, one of the commentators will describe a team in one of two ways. Either that team likes to play “small ball” and “manufacture runs” or the team likes to “wait for the three-run home run”. It’s cliché, but it is true. Some teams have high average hitters with [...]

“It was just perfect”, “You look perfect”, “It could not be any better!” The one thing all of these phrases have in common is that they are all wrong.
“Precision: The number of digits used to perform a given computation. The concepts of accuracy and precision are both closely related and often confused. While the accuracy [...]

One of the great mysteries of cultures is the apparent overpowering need to reach out to a higher power. This need is reflected in an act. Although varied by culture and shrouded in myth this act can be defined as the act of prayer. Even that part of the population that does not believe in [...]

I had a sad conversation yesterday. One of the guys I manage was in my office for our weekly one-on-one chat. Soon after we started talking, he told me that he wanted me to know that he and his wife were separating. He wanted to assure me that it wouldn’t affect his work, but he [...]

Knowing where something originated is almost always useful in the understanding and function. The first deviation from the original can send a thought off on a path to a higher or lower understanding. Words are especially susceptible and, yet, some are very uncomplicated. The root word for kindness is the Old English “kin”. Now, it [...]

We live in a standard two-story house. The ground floor is our living space and the upper floor has the bedrooms. One of those bedrooms, though, serves as the computer room. (I would call it a den, but my son’s computer is here, too, and he spends more time in here than I do.) The [...]

The standard comparison of God in the Old Testament and New Testament is one of the strict, punishing God and the merciful, forgiving God. That’s just not so. The Old Testament God was one of mercy, grace, and second chances. As seen in Leviticus 26 where God lays out His punishments for disobedience by the [...]

Advertising is part of the free enterprise system that is very useful to Satan and his plans of distraction. This is, basically, the exercise of seeking the attention of a consumer in order to persuade them to buy a product or service to fill a real or perceived need. I never knew I had so [...]

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