I was reading a book by Rabbi Daniel Lapin where he points out that a study done in the U.S. found that the group of individuals in our society that has the greatest sense of self worth are murderers.
In another study, Roy Baumeister found that the following groups of individuals have very high self esteem.
I listened to a recent podcast from Kris Vallotton entitled “The Improving State of the World”. It is a completely different take on end time eschatology than what I am use to and really challenged some of my concepts.
Kris Vallotton is one of my favorite speakers, but I was reluctant to accept the message at face value without digging into the scripture. I didn’t want to just accept someone else’s interpretation without searching it out myself. Then I realized something, that is what I have already done!
Yes, that’s right, my own eschatology and end time beliefs are based on what others have told me. So I decided to start with a clean slate and see what I dug up. Daniel 7 seems like a good place to start.
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I stood outside my parent’s house away from the dim glow of city lights and could see the night sky so clearly. It had been a while since I looked at the stars and I was struck by their beauty and the sheer number of them.
Amazing patterns of stars, some brighter than others stretching across the night sky. I couldn’t help but to recognize the extravagant nature of our creator. What real purpose did all of these stars serve?
I had a dream last night, I rarely dream and so I tend to pay attention when I have a vivid one. The dream came on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. day which had significance considering the dream’s content.
This dream was extensive, so I am just going to cover the first part. I may share the rest at a later date. Read More
In Georgia, we suffered from a drought that lasted more than a decade. Water levels had fallen and we were under constant, and quite annoying, water restrictions. Water had become so sparse at one point that the City of Atlanta only had reserves for 90 days. Governor Purdue even called for days of pray asking God for rain.
One of the local news stations interviewed a scientist about the issue asking him his opinion on the drought. His response was startling, he said that since Georgia had been in drought or near drought levels for a decade that we should assume that this was the new normal. Georgia should not expect to have increased rainfall because a pattern of dryness had emerged. Dry weather had become the average, therefore Read More