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Tolstoy, after Rousseau, on Knowledge and Wisdom

“Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. Among the most necessary knowledge is the knowledge of how to live well, that is, how to produce the least possible evil and the greatest goodness in one’s life. At present, people study useless sciences, but forget to study this, the most important knowledge.”

Photoblog: Campus Sidewalk Caution

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Photoblog: Books, books everywhere

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and not a thing to read?

Photoblog: Earth and Sky

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Three Little Words (a silly poem)

What are they? You don’t know? Should I know? You should know. Must I say? Three little words. What are they? I am waiting. Well, say them. How could you? Why don’t you? Don’t you know? Find your voice! Three little words. Three little pigs. Three little birds. Care for more? I have more. So many more. Three little words Make it simple-- “Eight little letters” O You live! O Vile You! I Love You!

Photoblog: (Almost) All The Kids And The Significant Others

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Scenes From A Hike

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8.86 miles in 2:33:37 with 20# ruck-sack. Caption  this (below): Soaked in sweat, but it was worth every drop.

Photoblog: The Long And Winding Road

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Let It Be

The Irrationality of Atheism

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Taking Tires For A Drive I Suppose

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Got the top down, wind in the treads . . .

Photoblog: Guilty Pleasure

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I confess: I have a guilty pleasure. I cook bacon. On my grill. At sunrise. On Sunday mornings.

Good News for Bad People

"But believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is, rather, good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. The message of the Christian faith is that because Jesus was strong for us we are free to be weak. The gospel of grace, in other words, frees us to let people see us at our worst so that they can see God at his most gracious best." (Tullian Tchividjian)

Courageous Spirituality (part 4): “Array God’s Power”

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“For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us." (2 Cor 4:5-7, ESV) The power of God is meant for display. Paul pictures our body as a jar of clay into which God has placed the treasure of the gospel. How does this happen? Why does this happen? Paul tells us in verse 6: the reason they preached Christ Jesus as Lord and not themselves was because they saw the glory of God in the face of Christ. Once God reveals the darkness of sin by bringing in the light, who can keep that to themselves? Part of the beauty of God’s glory is that He is consistent. The same God who shines this light is the same God who created light (Gen 1), the

Good Question!

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Ok, so the other night my wife and I visited our local Chinese Buffet and as customary, received our fortune cookies with our check. My wife's said: "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." My fortune cookie was empty.