We live in an age of “pragmatic expertism”, assured we can justify any action based on an ‘expert’s opinion’, a worldview where the end....

Given the frequency and intensity of emotional symptoms with mold toxicity, psychiatric health deserves extended attention beyond its connection to brain health. Anxiety, depression, panic, fear....

Who really understands mankind? Our hearts are obscured even to us, and we all know that we haven’t the faintest shot

We’re all sinners. I sin, you sin, your kid sins, your parents sin, and the president of the United States sins (though I don’t know what we expected from that last one). On this earth....

Christianity is antithetical to laziness. For us individuals, though, it’s easy to try and live our lives in moral equilibrium. We go from one day....

If a wise man’s lips spread knowledge, and we desire to be wise, we must choose to follow the course of the wise man and spread knowledge (what type of knowledge?). We must not be like the fool....

The common line of modern church thought is that the promises of the Old Testament in regards to prosperity in this present life were for that time and not this. Or it’s the prosperity gospel, where God dispenses prosperity....

While we as humans are clearly more than the sum of our neurotransmitters, this group of chemicals do play a significant role in our experience of life, running feelings, thoughts, and actions, the stuff make us who we are. Have you ever pondered....

Man does not have the right to ignore true authority. God’s authority over man is without exception and absolute (1 Sam. 2:10). It should be to our joy, then.....

We humans hate authority. Toddlers are the most honest about it; they regard ‘no’ as a horror beyond belief. Unfortunately, as much as we like to think otherwise, we don’t really leave our instinctive hatred....

Sometimes when those you love are hurting, you just want to shake them. They’re begin stupid, they’re being slow, can’t they just get better and stop hurting so much. More shamefully, and we don’t like to remember

Surveillance is a fact of modern life. You might be in London and China, where cameras watch your every move; you might be on eBay or Netflix, where your information is fodder....

We expect good things from good people, bad things from bad people, and lies from politicians. This is as it should be, but it’s only the beginning....

Why do we need scientific studies to convince us that common sense was right in the first place? On one hand, sometimes common sense is not exactly right and studies disprove myths and legends. On the other hand, we are limited as humans in our knowledge and insight such that biases and blind spots can distort common sense. Regardless, at the end of the day, a good study which confirms our prior suspicions does give us some credibility when urging others to make a lifestyle c

Proverbs is known as a book of practical advice, and today’s verse is one of the reasons why. This verse admonishes us to consider the impact of our words and actions. Harshness encourages anger, and gentleness....

We live in a world which rewards evildoing, to all appearance. In politics, evil men prosper, are raised up by their fellows to great heights of power and wealth, exercise their ill desires upon the populace and each other. In daily life....

Proverbs 14:34 ESV Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. How do we assess the nations we live in, the governments we live under, the peoples we are born amidst? We could run calculations and figure out the local or national GDP; we could consider how much we like our governmental representatives; we could assess how much we enjoy the culture we interact with. These measurements aren’t even all subjective; like and dislike are the definition of

Proverbs 14:33 ESV Wisdom rests in the heart of a man of understanding, but it makes itself known even in the midst of fools. Wisdom is recognizable. Even the most foolish of men occasionally has a good idea; even the most foolish can recognize wisdom. We are, after all, made in the image of God (Gen. 1:26-28), He who is Wisdom Himself (Prov. 8:22-31). As with beauty (to which it is a brother), we have an innate sense for true wisdom. Unfortunately, we also have a sin-

Proverbs 14:32 ESV The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing, but the righteous finds refuge in his death. Isaiah 57:1 echoes (in much more poetic terms) a sentiment that our lives and our world urges on us perpetually: “The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands.” Do not we see the righteous suffering even to death in the world around us? The righteous, it seems, are forever victimized by the world

Proverbs 14:31 ESV Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him. Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him. [ Proverbs 14:31 ] God made man in His image. The Fall marred that image but did not destroy it. Therefore, when man harms his fellow man, he assaults the image of God, not mere arrangements of matter and delusion (as the atheist is eventually forced to call man). W