Have you heard about Anthony Weiner? He’s the former congressman who’s running for mayor of New York. He resigned from congress after it became public that he’d sent a nude picture of himself to a woman he wasn’t married to. Initially, he claimed his Twitter account had been hacked, but it wasn’t. He was lying. […]
Do you remember what opportunity cost is from your economics class? Opportunity cost is what you gave up when you chose one thing over another. It’s what you could have had. If you spend $3,000 on a Hawaiian vacation, then your opportunity cost may be the new deck or hot tub you wanted. When you […]
Think back over the past 24 hours or so. What emotions have been most prominent? Have you felt happy or joyful? Peaceful? Content? Secure? Or have you been angry? Anxious? Worried? Maybe you’ve felt frustrated. Or discouraged. Or afraid. More than likely, you’ve experienced multiple emotions…sometimes within just a few minutes. Often, our emotions fluctuate […]
I used to pray for “breakthroughs.” For God to do something big, something unmistakeable to change my circumstances. Do you pray that way? My breakthrough prayers usually sounded something like this: “O Lord, You see my situation! I really need You to come through! I need a breakthrough today!” If it’s not finances for you, […]
Do you find it hard to understand why those two brothers in Boston would detonate bombs to kill innocent people? Or how other Muslim terrorists would fly planes into buildings to kill innocent people? Or how could an abortion doctor from Philadelphia deliver live babies and then cut their spinal cords with scissors to complete […]
Our sun is 93 million miles from earth and contains 99.99% of the mass of our solar system. To try and give some perspective–one million earths could fit inside our sun. Huge, right? But there’s a star named Betelgeuse that is anywhere between five and thirty times larger than our sun. It’s hard to begin […]