A few years ago I did some rough calculations: There are about 25.5 million teenagers in the USA (ages 13-19). On average, each teen spends 87 hours per year looking for or at pornography online. That means U.S. teens spend about 2.2 billion man-hours on pornography per year. There are about 230 million adults in the USA (ages 20 and up). On…
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Do you ever just get tired? Do you ever get worn out by the day-to-day give-and-take in your life? Do you grow weary of your work and the monotony of the daily grind? Do you ever feel like you’re being asked to give too much? Are you never quite able to tackle your long list of todos? At the end…
Comments closedModern Man wastes both his innocence and his guilt. His innocence is squandered by sin, which brings the guilt (and rightly so). But then he goes and squanders the guilt, too, by trying to cure it, forget it or die in it. Genuine guilt is not a psychological complex in need of curing or forgetting. Neither should it be cause…
Comments closedFasting is not just an excuse to live a healthier life or kick some bad habits. Fasting can be a profound act of love and a powerful spiritual weapon. Here are some reasons I love it. First, some demons can only be cast out by prayer and fasting. (Mk 9:28) Have something tough going on in your life? Or something…
2 CommentsWe’re off to a new year, which means new beginnings! New beginnings are essential to the Christian life. At any moment, no matter how badly we’ve messed up or what bad habits we’ve acquired, we can choose to start anew. And there will be some new things around here this new year! First, I’ve committed myself to write more. So…
Comments closed“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” – C. S. Lewis If I look for truth, I may find comfort – but I may not. Life is not about being…
Comments closedEach of us hear or read about 100,000 words in a given day. And each and every one of those words slightly changes us forever, whether we like it or not. The problem is that we don’t choose very many of these 100,000 words. Most of them are not sought out by us and consumed deliberately. Rather, they are thrust…
Comments closedHave you ever tried really hard to be humble? Or found yourself trying to figure out how to act humble or appear humble? And I don’t mean in a superficial pretending-to-be-humble kind of way. But in an “I genuinely want to be humble, how can I do it?” kind of way? It’s a powerful virtue and a worthy goal –…
One CommentAs I get older, I find myself becoming more and more of a minimalist. I want less stuff. I want less distractions. I want less good things in my life in order to make more room for the best things in life. I’m becoming a big fan of that kind of minimalism. But minimalism can also be bad. Like when…
Comments closedWe all want to be productive. That is, we want to feel like our day was well-spent. That it was meaningful. But this rarely happens by accident. Waking up on purpose and winning the first skirmish is the key beginning to a well-spent day. But winning that first skirmish begins the night before — with bedtime. I feel silly even…
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