Category: Personal

Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it. – Proverbs 13:11 Ain’t nothing wrong with increasing a little at a time, except maybe when it comes to weight. What are you increasing in little by little? Income? Net worth? Weight? Do you have ways to measure your increase? Is there…

Sometimes when we say we’re “trusting” in God to give us a job, we’re just being slothful. I’ve been that, expecting God to drop something into my lap while I sat in bed or on the sofa, munching on snacks and sipping down both Starbucks and my savings. Proverbs 12 has some verses to combat those attitudes:…

I love reading about best practices. Religiously I pop open my laptop and drink from the sages at MacWorld and LifeHacker to see what new tips and tricks they offer. I love to watch courses on Lynda.com and occasionally find good tutorials on YouTube. I enjoy following Dave Ramsey, Chris LoCurto and Dan Miller when it…

Vocatology is my newly invented word. It means, the study or science of vocation. I’m surprised it or a word like it doesn’t seem to exist yet. Maybe there’s a good reason it doesn’t exist. Vocatalogy seems like a difficult word to pronounce. I may have even spelled it wrong. In any case, maybe “Theology of Work” is…

“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be.” – Carl Sagan Was Carl right? Many would say yes, some might say maybe. I’d have to say no, and I’d like to explain my reasoning not from a religious perspective, but as best as I can from a programming perspective. When I…

I was at WinCo buying our week’s worth of groceries and saw a magazine cover featuring Al Gore, Julia Roberts, George Clooney and someone else. I can’t remember the name of the magazine but do remember that it had something to do with global warming, making the statement that it’s a problem more serious than…