English grammar is frustrating. The language was developed out of the joining of many, a product of repeated cultural conquest in several different nations across generations, culminating in something simultaneously straightforward and nonsensical. Understanding its rules is not sufficient to master its usage, riddled as they are with exceptions with and without explanation. Even with…

As of this writing, the United States Government is in a state of shutdown as a result of having maxed out on allocated deficit spending. This has been a reoccurring event for a couple decades now, whereby each time the limit is reached the congressional branch determines what their next limit will be. Ethical dubiousness…

Discontentment is one of the few things almost universally shared throughout the entirety of the Earth’s population. The world groans with the corruption of sin, and only the most depraved can deceive themselves into ignorance of it. For those of us with hope for Eternity, our discontentment may be a mere awareness, or a mourning…

Higher temperatures where I live have made sleep difficult, and as a result I’ve been generally more fatigued than usual. Earlier this month I drove home from work in a car that had been sitting in the sun for several hours, to join my family in an outdoor grill dinner and firepit. While the circumstances…

Affairs interpersonal and of the world are conducted according to the values and beliefs of the involved individuals and conglomerates, and often engaged with based upon conflicting variants thereof. These ideological confrontations theoretically serve as a means of cultural progression whereby differing perspectives are compared and adjusted toward a unified state of objectivity. Eventually society…

I am fascinated with music. Not only has God ordered a systematic cohesiveness to sound, He has endued it with the ability to invoke emotion in such a way that transcends standard forms of communication. Throughout Scripture, we are encouraged to utilize this unique gift in worship of the Creator, for which purpose I believe…