Wisdom Blog

Odds play an important part in everyday life. Or at least our understanding of “odds”. We believe in chance, probabilities, and luck because everything that occurs appears to happen on a scale of likeliness or unlikeliness. And based upon our specific interpretation of this phenomenon, we move forward with choices. And so we ask: what… Read more: What Are the Odds?

There’s a lot of interest today in stoicism. And it’s not surprising. Given the crazy temper of our world, with unprecedented extremes and factions on almost anything you can think of, exacerbated by a blatant lack of reason, people are seeking a state of mind in which they can make some rational sense of it… Read more: Christian Stoicism

“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” John 15:7 This well known passage in Scripture has at times mystified me. When Christ tells us we can ask for “whatever”, it leaves the door wide open. Can we really ask for… Read more: Whatever You Wish

Manifesting Mania The idea of “name it and claim it” isn’t new. It existed many centuries ago. But the phenomenon made waves back in 2006 when the hit movie and then the book “The Secret” landed on the world stage. The basic theme was this: whatever you choose to think on, focus on, and manifest… Read more: You Get Everything You Ask For in This Life

“The wise will inherit honor, but fools display dishonor.” Proverbs 3:35 “The wise will inherit honor…” How Honor Comes to You Pretty much every person you ever meet desires to be honored, at least in some way, even if they don’t believe they deserve it. People will go to great lengths to gain honor from… Read more: Honor is Bestowed – Dishonor is Earned

“So you will walk in the way of good men, and keep to the path of the righteous.” Proverbs 2:20. Every man must walk a path. Every man must walk a road. There is a journey to get through in this life, and you surely must travel it.

Administering justice only happens when the ruling authorities in a society abide by the standards of righteousness and truth. Since the dawn of humanity, societies and nations have been characterized by the ruling authorities’ standards. When good rulers came into power, justice has been administered. When evil rulers came into power, justice has been compromised.… Read more: Administering Justice by Righteousness and Truth

King David wrote some beautiful words in the book of Psalms in the Bible. He said many things we all need to hear and think about. He was a man close to the heart of God, and inspired by the Holy Spirit when he penned these amazing words on the brevity of life: “As for… Read more: Realizing the Brevity of Life

The biblical story of Job is a stand-alone story – there is none other like it. Few (if any) in history have gone through the magnitude of suffering Job endured, and few have acted with such courage in that suffering. Job stands as the premier example of enduring hardship and loss with a God-honoring attitude… Read more: How to Have Strength in Times of Adversity

I’ll never forget this quote I read, years ago: “Character is who you are when no one is watching.” When I stepped back and took a good look at my life, I realized the person I was in private was not the person I wanted people to see. The real me was the person I… Read more: The Benefits of Personal Integrity

There is and has always been a fascination with the making of money. Everyone wants to be rich – no one wants to be poor. So a common question that arises in pesonal conversations, Internet chats, public forums, and any other gathering of minds, is this: how to become rich? Or, said another way, how… Read more: How to Become Rich

Many years ago I heard a story illustrating the power of discipline. A guy went to interview a group of kids incarcerated in juvenile hall. He was doing research on the causes of juvenile delinquency and hoped to learn some answers from the kids themselves. He asked them a simple question: “What is the thing… Read more: The Power of Discipline

The strategies for wealth people choose is a revelation of their interests and skills. Since most people have an objective in mind when they begin their career path, the objective dictates the road they will follow, and the journey to get there will be a strong evidence of that person’s inclinations, desires, aptitudes, and most importantly,… Read more: Strategies for Wealth – Keep It or Lose It

Many people believe the way you make God happy with you is through sacrificing something. Now, I’m not talking about an offering on an altar, or a gift on a shrine, although that is how many people understand sacrifice. Rather, I am referring to the idea of sacrifice as something that one gives up in… Read more: Righteousness and Justice – What God Desires of His People

In all the earth, there is an ongoing battle between the two opposing forces of justice and injustice. Every nation and every country throughout the history of the world has experienced the continual conflicts of right against wrong, truth versus lies. America is now experiencing the height of that struggle, and let it be known,… Read more: Justice is Coming

Everyone is seeking that which lasts. Day to day, through all of time, in every corner of the globe, mankind is yearning for what endures. But do people ever really stop to consider what does last? Surely we know the words of mankind do not. Think of the countless books that have been written since… Read more: Words of God – Only They Remain

Pilate, the Roman governor in Roman-occupied Israel in the first century, posed a monumental question to Jesus Christ that has echoed down through the halls of time in every corridor of the earth: “What is truth?”

The book of Proverbs is known around the world for being a treasury of practical life wisdom. Written over 3000 years ago, its truths are as impactful today as they were in antiquity. As it has been well said, we are a product of our choices, Solomon’s words for the wise echo the same: “If… Read more: Solomon’s Words for the Wise: Your Decisions Make You

Time has a way of glossing over reality. We sometimes don’t see it, but it is true none the less. When we remember good ol’ days gone by, we don’t always remember with accuracy. The result of our flawed memories is an often unrealistic idea about the way things used to be. We think back… Read more: Were the Good Ol’ Days Really That Good?

Good and evil. From the earliest days of human society, people have decried the branding of what is evil as good, and good as evil, by their leaders. Times haven’t changed much.