Dear Parents, I am taking a week off from my “Principles from Plutarch” series to share some other thoughts. I have put together this video wherein I discuss how to navigate our children through the divisive and contentious times we are living in. Why am I doing this? You all have your children at Charis because you …
In my last message I wrote about hard work and frugality. This week I am going to write about pursuing eternal things. “Other arts, whose end it is to acquire riches or honor, are likely enough to wither and decay in poor and undistinguished towns; but virtue, like a strong and durable plant, may take …
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In my last message I wrote about the importance of aesthetics and neatness. This week I am going to write about the value of hard work and frugality. Alexander the Great believed that “those who labor sleep more sweetly and soundly than those who are labored for and . . . it [is] the most …
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Last week I wrote about the importance of creating and maintaining an orderly environment by having clear expectations and consistently enforcing those expectations. This week I am going to continue on that theme by discussing the importance of aesthetics and neatness. In dealing with captured pirates, Pompey came to the following conclusion. “Wisely weighing with …
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Last week I wrote about how great leaders serve something higher and better than themselves. This will I will write about the importance of creating and maintaining an orderly environment. According to Plutarch, after Cinna was slain Sylla came to power “much to the joy and satisfaction of most people, who in their present evils …
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In this series of messages I am going to try something different. I am going to attempt to write a series of messages that take ideas from a classical work and show how these ideas contain principles that can help to guide our lives today, specifically in our roles as parents and co-teachers. You can call …
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The last few weeks I wrote about things we ought to pursue like godly ‘ordinariness’ and self-sacrificial love. But in order to embrace and say “yes” to good things we often have to let go of and say “no” to lesser things. This week’s message will be about saying “no” to things that divert us. …
Last week I wrote about why we should ‘embrace the ordinary’; this week I will write about how we can pursue that by embracing rest, work, and gratitude. Rest is an important part of life. When we rest we prove that we mean it when we say that we trust that God has wisely ordered …
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Last week I wrote about how Christ did not come to simply save us from the guilt of our sins, He also freed us from the power of sin. In following Christ we are asked to kill our sin. This does not make us right with God; salvation is a free gift. But part of …
Last week I wrote about how God not only saves us from sin, death, and damnation but for righteousness. Titus 2:11-12 shows this: the first verse talks about how God has saved us from damnation and the second about the righteousness God has saved us for. “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation …
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