We have the same weaknesses as our forebears in the Sinai, having a carnal propensity to sin. The only difference between them and us is God's gift of His Holy Spirit. As Joshua prepared to cross over the Jordan, a parallel miracle to …
For generations, outraged or marginalized citizens of the world have occasionally resorted to some form of civil disobedience to air their grievances publicly against the established order. History is replete with the passionate …
Maximum Ride is a popular science-fiction/action-adventure series, ultimately to be eight books, written by novelist James Patterson. These books, aimed at teens, are loosely based on two novels for adults, When the Wind Blows and The …

(9) Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire.
This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
The problem with a divided, unfocused mind is that it is, as we would say today, all over the place, seeking fulfillment in a host of things, pursuing a wide variety of goals, but rarely, if ever, coming to grips with the pursuit of …
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the author presents a scene in which a character, Treebeard, an Ent or Shepherd of the Trees, expresses deep sorrow and anger that the enemy’s minions have been felling huge swaths of trees on his border to feed their weapon-producing smithies. Decades ago, environmentalists seized on this scene and a few others, declaring that Tolkien must also be an environmentalist. Before long, Greens in many nations lauded Tolkien’s magnum opus as a manifesto for their cause. It did not seem to matter to them that Tolkien was not an environmentalist. He was …
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