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Marx on Society

The following was written for Bro. Daniel Yoder's class, Cultivating a Christian Mind . It was a philosophy class, but was vaguely renamed at some point due to the low interest level the students had in philosophy. Or so rumor has it. Regardless of the title's history, we were given a list of acceptable topics to write about for our term papers. My choice was then to write about a philosopher, and so my research on Karl Marx began. Enjoy. Everything begins with a thought. In order to place this universe in existence, God spoke. But before those words came the thoughts. God played with ideas of worlds, peoples, and what would happen on those planets. As a Creator, those thoughts spurred God on to create this small world with its human infestation. Mankind is made in the image of the Creator, which allows him to think critically and curiously about the hypothetical. Karl Marx is one of those men whom God created and who also chose to dream about an ideal world. Marx may have
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Inside, Outside, Right-side Up.

The following words were written due to an assignment in which the students were to compare secular psychology to genuine, Biblical counseling. Christians often attempt to merge atheistic, secular psychology with God's Word, and it is quite the struggle. If you don't believe that it is difficult, please review psychologists stance on sin in comparison with God's explanation.  '“We all know that something is terribly wrong with us. We are not the way we’re supposed to be, either. There is evil in the world and there is evil in each one of us.” (Koukl, 174). Humanity has something inherently wrong with it. Mankind has realized this and thus has been searching for fulfillment for centuries. The great thinkers throughout the years have studied and searched the world in attempts to find out what that problem is, where it came from, and what to do to fix it. Secular psychology claims that the answer exists, but their answers are not of one accord. There seems to be one com
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Update.

Greetings to my one reader, may you be blessed. If you exist. I would like to reward you for sticking it out, despite the lack of content. You clearly need something better to do with your life. Plans have been vaguely made, and I want to write again. Since it has been a hot minute I have written anything for public consumption, I decided to start my comeback with my class papers from Elnora Bible Institute. If that is of interest to you, I would recommend you stick this out and return at times. If you could not care less, then maybe burn this web address from your memory. These publications have been cited and it seems easiest to keep them like that. They have also been graded and notes have been made, but it seems easiest here as well to simply not  edit them. It's just you and me, kid. Here we go.
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Bubble.

     "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age." Matt. 28:19-2o      If you're reading my blog, chances are that you already know what the Great Commission is. We memorize it when we're little, and envision the far off places that we'll go when we get older. Kids grow up, and we soon forget what these verses mean. Sure, you can move away for a year or two for missions, but make sure you keep your roots!**      I have never, thus far in my short life, felt called to go overseas for a year or two. I have always felt like God wanted me in a long-term mission field that I don't need a break from. Why does the mission field have to be overseas? God has yet to give me an greater longing to go across the ocean than to stay on this continent. Maybe it's coming,
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Different Kind of Normal.

*** I wrote this post about a year ago, but I'm still the same. When I read this today, I somehow felt the same desperation now as I did then. If you happen to know, tell me about your MBTI and how you deal with your stereotypical struggles. The information they provide about the types is not there as an excuse to fail, but to show you your shortcomings. So let's help each other grow in both our types weaknesses and strengths! ***      My whole life, I have always felt a bit different. I struggle showing any raw and real emotion. This isn't normal, is it? Everyone else seems to know how to be 100% vulnerable, so why can't I?      A few weeks ago, someone at work mentioned a personality test that is actually accurate and researched. I looked up the site, and a few days later, I took the Myers-Briggs personality test. After you get your results, they have a plethora of information about your personality type readily available. It is scarily precise. Guess what! Less t
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Miracles.

     It still hasn't sunk in. Did this really happen? How did we survive? Seven times. We rolled seven times. Only one person with any broken bones. How?! When I tell people this story I don't think I realize how bad it really was.      It all started when three of my favorite people came all the way from Indiana to visit. They were out here for a week, and we decided to go four wheeling in the mountains on the last day. Go out with a bang, as it were.      Our day started delightfully; the sun was peaking out, and though there was a chance of rain, we were not deterred. We started out on our venture with six people and four four wheelers. We found a trail that looked promising, and off we went! As we made our way down the side of a hill, Abby flipped. The first to bite the dust. Although not literally. She basically walked off the four wheeler as it turned over. No harm done.      We kept going along that path, only to end up at private property. That's okay, we'
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Home.

     So what makes a home? Is it where you grew up? Or it is where your family is? Perhaps it is where your stuff is. Who really knows?      For those of you who are completely unaware, I'm currently visiting Indiana - the great state that I inhabited until two months ago. I never realized what thoughts and feelings go through the mind of a person who moves nineteen hours away from their past home. You get back to the place you refer to as home, but you never go to your house. So you're home, but you're not. You feel?      The main reason I came back to the place of my childhood was to go with my youth group to South Carolina; coming back I had a subtle epiphany. There's nothing like walking into your house and instantly crashing after a long trip. Nothing. I walked into my temporary Indiana home, and there was no mom to give me a hug and no floor onto which I could dump the contents of my suitcase. No place I could sit alone and just soak it all in.       S
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