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It's remarkable how little financial literacy there seems to be lately. Only recently I was talking through some pretty basic stuff about personal finance with a friend of ours in his 40s, who commented nobody ever taught him anything about this before. You'd almost be forgiven there's some...

As entertainment it's an easy enough read, although I wouldn't accept it as theological truth. My concern with books like that is that when a theology that appears at least somewhat weak is woven into a story that's easy to read it becomes very easy to propagate the theology - people suspend...

Yesterday my suggested workout was a 39 minute base-level run. I'm not sure where it gets the numbers from but I did the run, albeit a little harder than intended (my watch rated it as tempo level intensity, one step up from base). Today's suggestion is a 62 minute base-level run. That means...

Yesterday's suggestion was threshold intervals. I didn't feel like doing that but did decide to go for a harder run, and ended up going harder than the suggested workout. After 5 miles I stopped and walked the last mile of the route because my legs didn't have much more to give. Today's...

I believe my church has a youth group but I haven't been going long enough to know anything about it. My last church had a group. It met once a month after the morning service and we did anything from ten pin bowling to hiking to playing games around the church building. My wife and I used to...

I was glad for my water bottle yesterday. In cooler weather I don't always carry water but yesterday I put electrolytes in it. It wasn't the hottest of hiking days - I still had a reasonable amount left when I got back to the car.

Hotter than I expected when I went hiking in the mountains. I got about 7.5 miles in, I didn't put the usual loops on at the end because I felt like I'd be doing it for the sake of it rather than because I particularly wanted to stay out longer. Curiously today I saw some other people hiking...

5 hard miles today, speed repeats in strong winds. I planned it to be a 10k run but the winds got too much after 5 miles.

For the last few days my suggested workouts have been very slow and short recovery runs. I've done a couple of them but often when it wants me to run that slowly I just walk instead. Sometimes I do the gentle run and then walk for the rest of the distance I need.

Haughtily dismissing? You could always try addressing the concern. Radical thought I know, but there you have it. Do you have anything specific to support your assertion, or are you going to simply say you were told something by unverified sources and expect everyone to believe it?

Sounds like a lot of assertions with little to support it. What is asserted without evidence can just as easily be dismissed without evidence.

I found one this morning, I got out of the car and nearly stepped on it. Obviously one the littles missed yesterday :)

Ham, corn, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole. Good to have a houseful, the first time our house has been the location of an easter egg hunt in at least a decade and probably multiple decades.

The Easter story, metal style...

... and more projection. Who said I was being defensive? You responded to a point I never made, assuming it was about my own desires, and still try to flip the script on it. I agree entirely that sincerely seeking God's will offers many solutions. The trouble is that when you want to present...

No shades of gray? Is it a sin to own a fast car? Is it a sin to have a big house? Is it a sin to go to the gym and work out? The answer to all those questions is fuzzy. In and of itself it isn't a sin to have a big house and a fast car, and go to the gym regularly. But any of those things can...

Did I say anything about our desires? You're throwing up strawmen. Try what Paul said about meat offered to idols, or what James said about knowing what we should do and not doing it. Alternatively feel free to quote chapter and verse for every one of the assertions you're making.

I think this is the kind of situation where there are very few absolutes. It's easy to draw a line and say that a Christian shouldn't be watching porn movies. It's easy to draw a line and say that it's good to watch a sermon presenting God's word rightly divided. In between is a world of gray...

I wish I had the slightest idea what this thread was supposed to be about.