The Basics: 2b Complete Humanity
In each person are several tightly connected pieces. Our bodies are wonderful in their design. We are an adaptable and resilient complex web of cells, organs, bone, and blood. But…
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The Basics: 2a Humanity Created
Humanity is like a complicated and contradictory riddle. Humans can be kind, gentle, loving, and self-sacrificing one moment but spiteful, destructive, hateful, and self-centered the next. We among all the…
The Witness of Balance
I marvel at those dare-devils who walk across deep chasms on a thin cable. Perhaps you do too. Their exploits are legendary and leave most of us in awe and…
The Basics – 1h God is Creator
The Bible begins with this revelation of God, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1, NASB95) To explore this attribute of God we won’t delve…
The Basics – 1g God is One and Trinity
A look across the many religions of mankind reveals some stark similarities and differences. For some god is a force of nature. Others worship many gods, each with their own…
The Basics – 1f God is Love
Everyone has an attribute or two that defines them. An innate quality that is the keystone for their entire life. For human beings, this could be something wonderful or awful,…
Dale’s Rules for Life – Be a Bridge
I have these rules for life. This happens to be the fifteenth on the list. While all the others easily boil down to some simple phrase this one struggles with…
What Drives You?
A car is just a hunk of metal unless someone gets behind the wheel and drives it. Our actions are like that car, nothing happens unless there is a driver.…
The Basics – 1e God is Holy
Prominently displayed at the National Archives in Washington DC are the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. These documents are protected and preserved in special cases.…
The Basics: 1d God is Timeless and Timely
Most of us have a love/hate relationship with time. We look forward with longing for certain days to arrive. The promise of Christmas, the day of graduation, the date of…
The Basics – 1c God is Everywhere
How often would you like to be in two places at once? We all face that conflict, those times when the various spheres of our worlds collide. When work calls,…
A Time for What?
The Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes is a head-scratcher. For instance, in Chapter three after the poetic and song-worthy couplets of “for everything there is a season” the writer asks,…