Jesus only made it to his 32nd year. Here is a question I have often mused over,
what if Jesus made it to his 62, 72 or even 92 year of age. How would his brain have developed given that
increase in time? He certainly is
considered one of the greatest Sages of all time, but how would Jesus think at
92 versus 32 years of age?
Not long ago bracelets with WWJD (What
would Jesus do?) were popularized. In this article I want to muse about WWJT
(What would Jesus think?)
Neuroscience has learned a lot about how we
think, and how the...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Friday, October 31, 2014
Your Giving Out Advice Nobody Wants to Hear
Negative Advice Givers.
You know these people.
A lot of their sentences start with the phrase,
“You know…
there’s a better way to do that.”
They might start with good intentions, but it always comes
out like criticism.
Many of these negative people actually have good ideas and
could be extremely helpful, it’s just that no one wants to listen to them
because they’re just…
Well they’re just negative.
“Here - you’re doing it wrong....
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Does Everything Happen for a Reason
They say everything happens for a reason.
But what if it doesn’t?
We humans are creatures that like to be able to give purpose
to every event, but I’m not so sure life works that way.
Yes - I think we can learn something from everything we
experience good or bad. We grow, become more mature. But did it always happen for
a reason? I don’t think so.
To say that God willfully controls all these bad things that
happen in our lives paints a very different picture of God than I know. We live
in a broken world where sin results in broken beings...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
The Lie of the Guidance Counselor
Life is never as straightforward as we would like it to be.
It's funny how the older as person gets, the more we realize that we cannot control our future. There are times that we point ourselves in a certain direction, but the place we end up is somewhere quite different, and you look back and feel "well how the heck did I end up here?"
Remember doing aptitude testing in grade school? You sit down with a counselor and answer 25 questions and BAM - they gave you a list of 10 occupations perfectly suited for you. You could be a pilot, an...
Friday, July 5, 2013
Self Control
I’ve worked with teenagers for more than 10 years and any
story you can imagine I’ve heard, witnessed or experienced. They light themselves
on fire with hairspray, shoot fireworks at each other in a tag game, surf on
the back of moving vehicles, put icy/hot rub in places that should never be “icy-hotted”
and and and. Self control is not exactly the cornerstone of life for teenagers.
This past week I read a few articles in SI about what...
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