Recent Posts Tagged With 'responsibility'

• Throw The Book At Her!

  Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 10:42 in children, humor, parenting, responsibility, for better or for worse

  From last week: I learned I’m not allowed to decide how responsible my children are and the resulting levels of freedom they can then enjoy. And in the re-running of the classic comic For Better or For Worse, we learn that Ellie is an abusive p...

• Today I Learned…

  Posted on Tuesday July 14th, 2009 at 15:59 in children, parenting, Illinois, responsibility, baby sitting

  …I’m not allowed, as father and parent, to decide when and how my children are allowed to be mature. I was quite capable, at 10 years old, to go to the grocery store by myself, on my bike, and pick up various thing my mother needed but co...

• How To Evangelize

  Posted on Monday April 27th, 2009 at 08:13 in christian, relationship, people, forgiveness, sunday school, salvation, redemption, john piper, responsibility, ray comfort, don't waste your life

  Going through Piper’s “Don’t Waste Your Life” series in Sunday School, yesterday we discussed his admonition that we ought to “gladly make others glad”. First, our gladness equates to the fullness of our joy, our s...

• To Kill A Butterfly

  Posted on Friday April 17th, 2009 at 15:41 in conservative, children, parenting, teaching, philosophy, happiness, people, Liberal, choices, perspective, butterfly, responsibility

  Want to know how to kill a butterfly? Help it. Yes, it’s that easy. You see this newly metamorphosized creature, brimming with potential beauty and wondrous mystery, struggling weakly against the tough confines of it’s chrysalis shell. Mo...

• What is our problem?

  Posted on Monday March 23rd, 2009 at 23:37 in politics, Culture, christian, republican, news, children, Democrats, war, happiness, america, people, Government

  What makes us so special? Rather than embarking on a long dialogue, as is my norm, I want to instead throw some things out on the table for you to think about. First . . . do we really readthe Bible, or do we just preview it through our Americanized ...

• Dilbert . . . in this new economy

  Posted on Tuesday March 3rd, 2009 at 09:12 in politics, Culture, republican, Democrats, america, people, free market, Economy, Government, taxes, election, choices

  Here is a priceless article out of the WSJ. There are no real “slick” lines in the article or fancy catchphrases, just sound, well though out reasoning. The article details how the economies woes are no longer the fault of the Bush admini...

• Chipotle And The Beneficent Free Market

  Posted on Tuesday February 17th, 2009 at 13:27 in Culture, global warming, environment, animals, america, poor, Economy, consumerism, farming, south america, humanitarian, responsibility

  This is a slight commentary on Chipotle (the restaurant chain) and how it symbolizes the significant superiority of the free market economy and accompanying extreme wealth and their many benefits to the world at large. Have you eaten at Chipotle? If ...

• Potent Presidency: Words Mean Things

  Posted on Thursday January 29th, 2009 at 14:24 in children, school, america, chicago, Government, weather, corruption, responsibility, maturity, president barack obama

  When the most powerful man in the world says something, anything, it carries a significantly greater weight than if Joe Schmoe on the corner says even exactly the same thing. An account executive or a cable repair man can joke about their kids school...

• Obama: The Man And The Idea

  Posted on Monday January 19th, 2009 at 14:29 in Culture, christian, President, america, Barack Obama, prayer, abortion, free market, Government, taxes, election, law

  (A)s we revel in this gush of happy feelings it is important to recognize that not all change is good. It is important to recognize that we need to pin our hopes on solid ideas or our hopes will be quite hopeless. On that depressing note I beg your p...

• Balance, Transition, Change, Messiah

  Posted on Tuesday December 2nd, 2008 at 14:25 in Culture, humor, bush, obama, america, evil, change, aids, walmart, non sequitur, responsibility, transition

  Monty captured the media’s paltry attempts at balance just right: And Non Sequitur captured the spirit of the media coverage of Obama’s transition team: Meanwhile, in the world that still travails under the weight of sin, current United S...

• Whats Happening?

  Posted on Thursday November 20th, 2008 at 10:58 in politics, republican, news, Democrats, marriage, obama, america, people, free market, Economy, homosexual, California

  Copyright © 2008 ShatteredChina. Visit the original article at http://www.ipandora.net/2008/11/20/whats-happening/.So . . . I spent some time browsing and have some news to share. Iran is working on nuclear capabilities and has the neccessary nu...