Articles to educate and encourage.
There are a ton of online tools that can help you with Bible study. I tend to just use a few, so I thought I’d share them here. A few great tools are better than a bunch of okay tools. Feel free to add links to your favorite quality tools as well in the...
Read more →About two months ago, Anne Lamott tweeted a line of advice for writers that has stayed on my mind ever since. She said “Write as if your parents are dead.” I’ve thought for a while about what that statement implied there. She is saying to write as if your parents will never read what...
Read more →Today I did something that I rarely (if ever) do, and it was, well, hard. I told an old friend I was disappointed in him. The moment for the acknowledgement began innocently enough. I received an email from him which had a short blurb telling me about a friend he had known from childhood...
Read more →Anne Lamott says that if you want to be a writer, you need to sit down each day, and regardless of whether or not you are crazy or mentally dead or narcissistic, try and write at least a paragraph. Get one paragraph down of something, and let that stand, and aim to do it...
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Read more →If you are, like the rest of us, trying to watch your cash and figure out how to cut your expenses, Erin Burt, Contributing Editor at Kiplinger.com, wrote a great article on some of your money habits to audit. I give you, in summary, Erin’s list of poor practices to avoid here. Carrying a...
Read more →Well, it’s that time of the year again- we are officially in the holiday season. For most of us, this period of the year is a happy time when we visit family, revisit good memories, stuff ourselves silly, and share yuletide cheer with friends and co-workers. For some of us, though, trekking through the...
Read more →Hey, jawing with friends on Facebook is fun, and tweeting about Twilight is hip, but maybe you, like me, have realized that sometimes hopping on a social networking site becomes a big time dump. If you’ve got little going on in your life, more power to you, nursing that latte while you connect and...
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