Harvey Weinstein vs Billy Graham
But the Harvey Weinsteins and Bill O’Reillys of the world are reminders that women in subordinate positions to men often feel pressured into closeness, and that this pressure almost always serves male libido and ego more than it serves women. If women often do not have the professional/economic leverage to afford rare or nonexistent access to male leadership (and I think that’s often true), how much less do they have leverage to refuse a meeting or a conversation because of uncomfortable circumstances?
Technology is destroying the most important asset in your life
You can spend 80 years of a life with as much free time as you want and still not get out of it as much as someone who only lived for 40 years but managed to appropriately direct attention to the things that mattered to them. Although time is indeed limited, with attention, it can be diluted to expand beyond what most other people get out of the same quantity.
Cost is what I had to give up to get this. Cost is how much to feed it, take care of it, maintain it and troubleshoot it. Cost is my lack of focus and my cost of storage. Cost is the externalities, the effluent, the side effects.
3 Reasons to Regularly Get Others to Preach
If you feel a resistance in your heart and mind to the thought of handing the keys over for a Sunday, maybe an idol is riled up . Knock it down by stepping down from the stage for a week. Brothers, get out of the pulpit. It’s good for you. It’s good for the church.
- Put your Bible in an easily accessible place
- Set aside 15 to 30 minutes a day
- Join or start a Bible reading club or study group
- Study one book of the Bible at a time
- Study the Bible by topics
- Have a Bible encyclopedia or dictionary nearby
- Write your thoughts or notes in the margin of your Bible
- Ask what the original audience or people in the story learned
- Put yourself in the story
- Journal what you learn
- Apply the lesson you learn to your daily life
- Spend time in prayer
Texas inmates donate more than $50K to Harvey relief efforts
Inmates in Texas prisons have donated more than $50,000 to relief efforts following the devastation left by Hurricane Harvey in August.
The New York Times reported that inmates in prisons throughout Texas donated $53,863 for Harvey relief after Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials allowed them to donate funds from their commissary accounts.