I am a Christian (yes, dorky, even), husband to my beautiful wife & best friend of TEN years and father of three adorable children. In my spare time, I like to play guitar and coach little kids' baseball.
I use this website to log my thoughts, happenings & whatnot. Sometimes my posts are work or web-related & sometimes they are family-related or just random.
I produce creative design and code for a living at Visual Notion.
It has always bugged me that the verse in Matthew 7:1 is often misquoted by people. Here's what it says: 1“Do not judge, or you too will be judged."
Then they conveniently ignore or purposefully leave out the context of verse one by leaving out verses 2-5 as they provide more insight and practicality:
I've been meditating more on God's announcements of His Son to the world based in Luke 2:8-20. How awesome it must have been for the dirty, smelly, low rungs on the social ladder that were known as shepherds. They were rough around the edges, but they had to be. They worked long nights guarding sheep from predators and making sure the property entrusted to them stayed together. It certainly wasn't a glamorous life and most in society didn't think too highly of them.
Had God picked our time to announce the birth of Christ I believe He would have done so at a truck stop. I don't have anything against truck drivers, at all. Its just that the nature of their business is more in line with the shepherds. They are tough, hard-working, and work long hours to protect and deliver the cargo they are tasked with carrying. Nobody in society really thanks them for their work despite how most benefit from it. We just don't think about it, really.
I gave the "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" speech to our oldest children this morning when they wanted to pick at their breakfast instead of eat it. (It's frosted mini shredded wheat. What's not to like?)
My proud speech: "Do you know what the most important meal of the day is? Breakfast. You need it to get you going in the morning and help you make it through the day. It will give you energy to run, play, and think. It is very important."
My wife and I got the kids ready and I dropped them off for school as is our priority most mornings. I knew I needed to read my Bible this morning and spend some time with God. In that still quiet voice that he used with Elijah on the mountain, He kept reminding me: "Spend some time with me."
Studying Jesus' words on hell and the parable of The Rich Man & Lazarus (the begger) has always been very telling about what hell is like. I've always found this parable to be fascinating especially as God showed me, over time, new things about this parable I hadn't noticed before.