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We Need Heroes.

 The world still needs heroes. We all need someone to look up to. When you are a kid, you naturally want to emulate the grown ups, but we can never be too old to have dreams and admire those who have accomplished much. Heroes generally come from the areas in life that we have taken an interest in. It is  hard to be a hero in the times we are living in because people are constantly looking for ways to dehumanise other people. There is more conflict in the world these days, so you think those achieving any kind of virtuous feat would be instantly admired by the masses, but virtue itself is being looked down upon. There were prophets in the Old Testament, who warned to the people that if they didn't change their ways that God would send judgement, so when virtue falls in our society, you see less and less of people of virtue being admired. But if we again regain some sanity in our world, it is ripe for heroes. In a society where we have forgotten practical ways of living, heroism...

Learning to ACT, rather than re-act.

  In the heat of an argument or unseen circumstances, our first action or attempt to solve the problem can be usually a reaction. When we react to something negative, it is usually in an unhealthy way because our reason and our minds don’t seem to have the time to process the “bad” event, so we sometimes react in a negative way. Instead of reacting in a bad way, we should learn to ACT rather than react.  Ways in which we ACT should be based on positively good knowledge and wisdom. Sometimes it takes just a little more effort to ask ourselves “What is the right way to act in this situation?” We can always ACT in the right way, even when we are unsure what it is. We have a conscience and we can learn from what failed us in the past and ACT differently. Learning to act a certain way helps us to navigate ourselves through the problem, rather than feeling stuck as if we reacted in a particular way, and are now stuck with the results! Learning to ACT rather than react gives us insig...

Practising the Presence of God.

  “For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’” These are the words of the apostle Paul in Athens in the meeting of the Areopagus . He was trying to make the point that God is not far from us, as some would like to think, but that we actually exist in His presence. Why is it that some are not aware of this, as were the people of Paul’s day? Look at a passage in Romans 1 that says: “ The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,  19  since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.  20  For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”  It is by our own free choice and the suppression of the knowledge of God...

A Nation must be built on Justice.

  A Nation must be built on Justice. Proverbs 12:3 A man shall not be established by wickedness; But the root of the righteous shall not be moved. A nation that disregards the teachings of the bible is doomed to eventual failure. Proverbs 12:3 reminds us that human beings shall not be established by wickedness and that it is only when we have our foundation on righteousness that we will stand firm. Moral principles are just the beginning of creating a just nation, but it is living out these principles that we start to build a secure nation. Dialectical thinking weakens our culture and creates unity on the surface, but lacks the real strength to stand up to adversity. Being a dialectical society means that we reject absolute truth absolutely, which leaves no room for the actual truth to be discovered or lived out.  When everyone thinks in a relative way, we push out didactic thinking, which is thinking based on moral reasoning based on the truth or the word of God. When the pri...