With the changes of lifestyles and circumstances has come a need for people to be more attentive to their health and financial matters. Thus, a word that would describe such attentiveness has become quite common. That word is proactive. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary (online edition), it means “controlling a situation by making things happen or by preparing for future problems.” As mentioned above, the need for this can easily be illustrated in terms of one’s health

Often times in our relationship, Sara and I will see something that someone has that is extremely extravagant or luxurious and we jokingly look at each other and say, “one day when we are rich, we will get one of those!” and then proceed to laugh at the hint of that even being a possibility. Of course, we are only joking, however, interactions such as this one make me stop and think about the idea of being rich. The more I ponder the idea, I quickly begin to separate physical

Christopher “Kit” Carson was a famous mountain man and scout in the old west. He did many things that were indeed worthy of recognition and fame. However, in the style of the day, he and his exploits were greatly exaggerated in the reports and novels written about him. David Fisher, author of Bill O’Reilly’s Legends & Lies, The West, tells how Carson was portrayed as “a giant” when in reality he was a “small, stoop-shouldered, bowlegged and freckled man.” At one point, a man

Are you worthy of Christ? Many times, in a world of political correctness we fail to cut to the core of the matter. Cutting to the core is something Christ did frequently throughout His earthly ministry. We see in many places in scripture that Christ came to change the world, not conform to it, and often times He did this by cutting straight to the core of the matter at hand. We see one instance of this in Matthew 10:34 -39, a passage in which Jesus gives us the attitude a