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About ten years ago I was on a cruise with my wife, and we were eating breakfast in a main dining room in the stern of the ship. We noticed an interesting menu item that was some type of “steak.” However, we did not recognize the name/term preceding the word “steak.” The maître d was
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For those of you who choose to press in–to engage and wrestle at a deeper level with who you are and who you want to be, the second step (after acknowledging and accepting that you exist) is soberly determining where you are in life, figuratively speaking. In the 21st century, many people rely on Global
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As previously mentioned, some logical questions that flow from the fact you exist include “How did we get here?” and “Why are we here?”. Many people believe it is unnecessary or irrelevant to try to answer these questions and choose to avoid investing their faith in any conclusion related thereto (Option 1). Others invest their
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Faith can be hard to define from a theoretical or intellectual perspective. Another word that comes to mind is “belief.” We are told from Christian Biblical scripture that faith is required for salvation.¹ But what does it mean to have (or otherwise somehow generate) the kind of “faith” the New Testament of the Bible speaks
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In the game of chess, originating in Persia (modern Iran), the word “checkmate” is used to indicate that a player’s king chess piece is in “check” and has no route of escape via any legal move under the rules of the game. The word “checkmate” originates from the Persian phrase shāh māt (شاه مات), meaning
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The last blog post discussed Jesus’s clear teaching that everyone (no matter how seemingly qualified or not) must become born again in order to enter the Kingdom of God. No exceptions.¹ We ended the last blog post with a logical question from the first-person perspective: “How do I become born again?” The answer to this