A daily dose of spiritual exercise for men in various stages of their Christian walk

I’m a sucker for time-lapse video. Since I was a kid, I just loved watching time-lapse shots of buildings being constructed, traffic patterns, nature, and anything else. It just strikes me as cool to see things that normally take very long to happen all compressed down to something active and exciting. Watching time-lapse of a [...]

You would not go into a critical care facility and degrade the patients. You would not beat them up because of a decision they made that ultimately put them into the hospital. There is a time and place for everything and immediate needs come first. Why would we then approach someone we see engaged in [...]

The Peace Corps has the tag line: “The toughest job you’ll ever love.” That’s a clever way of communicating the sentiment they feel you’ll get by joining up. You’ll work hard, but you’ll love the job. I think we have to remember that following Christ is just that, but in spades. It’s even tougher and [...]

Imagine a man buys a beautiful home overlooking a quiet lake. It has many acres of wooded area around it. The view over the lake is gorgeous. The home has all that you could want: a decked-out kitchen, a hot tub, a master bedroom with great views, a theater room with all the AV goodies, [...]

A box labeled “Handle With Care” will cause the average guy to immediately conclude that it contains something fragile. Obviously, the label is to prevent the rough hands of the mover or shipper from accidentally damaging what’s inside. However, what if the label is not a warning to be gentle, but a warning to not [...]

Have you ever witnessed a sports team succeed playing the same way over and over? A football team that runs the same plays in the same sequence each week? A basketball team that runs the same plays quarter after quarter? A baseball team that bets on the home runs coming in every game? These are [...]

One of the most difficult habits to break after accepting Christ is the idea that there is something more trustworthy than your own natural conclusions. We know that God is Truth and, so, who He is and what He says is more dependable and more accurate than the natural conclusions that our brains make to [...]

There are certain kinds of teammates that can make the whole greater than the sum of the parts. There are also those that can drag the rest of the team down (hence the concept of “addition by subtraction”). Who are the best players in the team sports you follow? They are the ones who do [...]

There’s a class of computer game that both my son and I really enjoy. They are known as real-time strategy games or RTS games. The basic idea is that you have to control a large number of units on the board to gather resources, construct better buildings, and build an army which you can then [...]

I’ve read various spy novels and special forces stories to know that when it comes to breaking into secure facilities, the guards are often a weak point. It’s amazing how multi-million dollar companies will pay ten bucks an hour for security guards and then wonder why they aren’t dedicated professionals. They’ll let odd things go [...]

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