Ideal Christmas

These days, Christmas is portrayed as something that it is clearly not – this is acknowledged by not just Christians, but all religions and a good portion of atheists as well.  Christmas (“Christ’s Mass”) was originally made to celebrate the birth of Jesus, even though it was not the exact date, but these days it [...]

What to look for in a husband.

With eight young men and women in my house who are between the ages of sixteen and nineteen the topic of the opposite sex is fairly common.  Since our adopted kids came to us at later ages (eight to fourteen) many of their ideas regarding the relationship between a man and a woman were already [...]

Quick update

Hey, guys, sorry for not posting in a while, I’ve been having a hard time with school and I’ve been sick for over a week, not leaving time for writing posts. But Christmas Break is coming soon and I’ll have some time on my hands, so are there any topics you guys want me to [...]

School Essay 17.1

(Refer to post before this for an explanation of this and future essays)
 
Should people always prefer new things, ideas, or values to those of the past?

I think that new things, ideas, and values should be used in conjunction with old ones.  There is a time and place for both. Billions of people have gone before [...]

Essays

Since I have not had much time lately to write and post stuff, I will start posting essays that I have written for school that have received good grades (at least an A). I do three of these a week and label with with the number of the school week followed by the number [...]

B-day

Today is my 16th Birthday!  Yay!    I got to celebrate my birthday yesterday (Sunday) with several church friends.  We played Guitar Hero, and one other computer game, had mom’s famous Oreo Ice Cream Cake for lunch, and rocked out to This Might Sting A Little, by Disciple, which I got as a present.  [...]