Today’s culture seems to have an endless supply of answers to that question.  We’re bombarded with “suggestions” from the latest novels, newly released films and catchiest tunes on the radio.
“I want your love and I want your revenge. I want your love, I don’t wanna be friends.” ~Bad Romance by Lady GaGa
“About three things I [...]

Title: Sherlock Holmes
Rating: PG-13
Moral Rating: Low
Nudity: Low/mild
Profanity: Mild
Violence: Excessive
When I first considered writing a review on the new Sherlock Holmes, I thought for certain that it would be “elementary;” an “open-and-shut case,” so to speak. I’m a life-long fan of Sherlock Holmes, own at least 5 books full of his tales of adventure as told [...]

I’ve been sort-of postponing writing any new posts until my blog was done being re-designed (especially since, with the new design, I wanted to introduce a bit of a new direction for my posts)…however, that isn’t happening as quickly as I had originally hoped. So, in the spirit of patience, and just accomplishing something [...]

Taiz rating for plot: 4.5 out of 5
Taiz rating for cleanliness: 5 out of 5
Taiz rating for creativity: 5 out of 5
Taiz rating for a deeper message: 4.8 out of 5
Publicly rated: PG-13 (for some mature thematic material involving the Holocaust)
Bruno’s bright blue eyes sparkled with mischief as he scampered up and down the streets [...]

Are You Trustworthy?
Also, be trustworthy…and make an effort to really know your brother/sister. (Who would tell someone their secret dreams if they knew it would be used against them somehow?) When a young man seeks to win a woman’s heart, he studies her – he becomes her “student” in a way (and vice [...]

Christa Taylor from the Empowered Traditionalist blog, and the Christa-Taylor modest clothing store asked me to do a post for the ET blog last week about being a sister.  I am going to let you read the un-edited version here…and then if you want to, you can check out her blog and see how it [...]

This New Year of 2009, I am resolved:

To walk blamelessly and do what is right - for a good name is better than gold (Ps. 15:2)
To use my tongue for blessing and encouraging - not cursing or bringing people down/ to be more careful in what I say (Ps. 15:3)
To take up no reproach against [...]

Isaiah 58:6-12
“Is not this the fast that I choose:
to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to break every yoke?
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry
and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover him,
and not to hide [...]

Today I felt like I was supposed to read John 13 for my Bible time…and interestingly enough - it “went” with my last post…so I thought I’d share some of it here (ESV):
John 13:1-17, “1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this [...]

I was reading through some older, half-used notebooks I had laying around a few weeks ago…and I came across this poem I wrote. I’m not sure exactly when I wrote it, but I was thinking about the missions trip I went on to Mexico when I was 12 going-on-13 [...]