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10 Lessons It Took Me Years To Understand - Ron Edmondson

Here are 10 lessons it took me years to understand:

1. If you have to impress the friend, he or she isn’t much of a friend.
2. “Just once” probably is a bigger deal than led to believe.
3. The sooner you decide to get your life headed in the right direction the more time you have to enjoy it.
4. There are few shortcuts to success.
5. Hard times come naturally in life…determine early to use them for God’s glory and to help others.
6. Kids grow up too fast. Enjoy them at each stage.
7. There is wisdom with age. Always be willing to learn from those who have lived and experienced more of life.
8. The longer you wait to forgive someone the longer it takes to heal your heart.
9. If you don’t act on what you feel led to do, because of fear or indecision, someone else will and you will miss the blessing.
10. More success in the world does not automatically bring more happiness, more success with the things that matter most does

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The Death of the Grown-Up - Diana West - Book - Review - New York Times

It’s more than just baseball caps, rock ’n’ roll, blue jeans and four-letter words, although those are bad enough. Narcissistic baby boomers, she writes, have methodically reversed the maturation process, destroyed parental authority, subverted traditional values and imposed a bland, sticky multicultural agenda that leaves the West unable and unwilling to confront its enemies.

Whew. Part argument, part rant, “The Death of the Grown-Up” sees signs of doom and decay everywhere. Ms. West’s polymorphous anxiety embraces pimp and ho Halloween costumes, James Dean, the Beatles, freak dancing, supersize fast food, street crime, subway riders who do not give up their seats to pregnant women and declining standards of shame among Rotary Club members. Oh, also Islamic jihad.

Ms. West writes with great flair. She has a columnist’s talent for seizing on arresting facts and locating the sort of outrageous incident guaranteed to make the blood boil. She has a sense of humor. What she doesn’t have is a sense of proportion. Nor does she have the intellectual firepower to make the argument she wants to make. The death of the grown-up has preoccupied her, she says, for the last decade. This is a remarkable admission. Ten years in the oven, and the theory still comes out half-baked.

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How to Worship

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Andy Naselli

Martin Luther’s Large Catechism begins with a shrewd reflection on the first commandment:

“You are to have no other gods.”

That is, you are to regard me alone as your God. What does this mean, and how is it to be understood? What does “to have a god” mean, or what is God?

Answer: A “god” is the term for that to which we are to look for all good and in which we are to find refuge in all need. Therefore, to have a god is nothing else than to trust and believe in that one with your whole heart. As I have often said, it is the trust and faith of the heart alone that make both God and an idol. If your faith and trust are right, then your God is the true one. Conversely, where your trust is false and wrong, there you do not have the true God. For these two belong together, faith and God. Anything on which your heart relies and depends, I say, that is really your God.

—Martin Luther, Large Catechism, “[The First Part: The Ten Commandments],” The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (ed. Robert Kolb and Timothy J. Wengert; trans. Charles Arand, et al.; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000), 386.

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