I have written elsewhere that we get stuck in our own world. We need help to become better people, but fail to get help. Counseling is super valuable and especially us men fail to get it. It leaves us stuck and leaves our families and coworkers in a less blessed place. We need to do better. Why Do We Men Avoid Counseling Like Me? I am one of those. My wife sought out and got hundreds of hours of counseling. …
The Americans like to give no strings attached gifts. We talk about Jesus incarnation sacrificial death as a free gift. Some translations translate Romans 6:23 as a free gift such ESV, NASB2020, Good News Bible and some others translate Romans 6:23 as a free gift. However, NIV, The Message, KJV, Holman Christian, and the modern CCB Chinese Bible says simply gift. In China and in much of the developing world, gifts are intended to have strings. Americans recoil at the thought. …
Notably, I diagnose as an Asperger Syndrome person. Professional counselors more and more call this a person with tendencies in the autistic range. To me that means I have my own package of gaps and everyone has their own gaps. This one of mine has a name. No person is whole in this life. We all have gaps either in our DNA or in what we learned in this life, particularly early childhood. God knows and sees this. As an …
Most American Christians are economic conservatives. Is God? Do we conservatives care about Biblical economics or other of God’s thoughts impinging on politics? God only set up the economy for one country, Israel. First, they divided up the land evenly. This seems a left wing beginning. Then God allowed unrestrained economic activity restrained by moral statutes on fair dealing. This is a right wing solution. After 49 years of unrestrained activity, everyone gets back their initial capital, namely they ancestral …
How do I describe how I was not of this world? Jo would get angry, and I would think she had an anger problem. In bad times I would think she was a witch. I grew up in a family that felt all outbursts of anger are wrong. Unbeknownst to me, these emotions did not go away. When I got angry in my childhood, I would repress it. Then my body would somehow change it, and I would physically feel bad …
