“But the end of all things is at hand:
be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer.” (1 Peter 4:7).
Even though they did not always live by it, the ancients considered “moderation in all things” as the ultimate ideal. When and if this ultimate equilibrium could be reached, life would be most pleasant.
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March 29, 2009 | Articles
I was nearly out of lotion and saw a sale–some fancy stuff for the same price as good old Lubriderm. I stood there at the display amid way too many choices. How do you decide between apple pomegranate, vanilla fluff, gingerbread, sugar plum, lemon twist, and blue ocean? Well, I was afraid the last one would make me smell like salt cod so that was a no-brainer.
March 29, 2009 | Articles
Here is a thought I wrote down in the margin of my Bible: “Our own temptations lead us to tempt others.”
James 1:13-15 NASB Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. (14) But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. (15) Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.
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September 13, 2007 | Articles
Bible study is one of my favorite pastimes. We are blessed to live in an era when all sorts of tools are available that make research fairly easy, and much less tedious than ever before. They also make it much more dangerous. It is easy for me to read a commentary, lexicon, or Bible dictionary and suddenly think I have become a great scholar, when the truth is, not only am I not instantly a Hebrew or Greek scholar, I am not even a good English scholar!
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September 13, 2007 | Articles
What are little girls made of? “Sugar and spice and everything nice” have been replaced by belly-button jewelry, super small shirts, and pants that reveal far too much information.
It was once the case that the only time “love-handles” were exposed in public was when an overweight plumber was struggling to repair the faucet (no offense to plumbers intended).
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January 28, 2007 | Articles
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