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Posted on August 2, 2021July 29, 2021

Adversity and friendship

Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him.George Herbert, "Proverbs" in The Complete English Works, 275. This saying is funny almost…

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Posted on July 1, 2021June 30, 2021

The good friend

Derek Kidner, in his commentary on Proverbs, offers the following outline describing "The Good Friend" according to the Proverbs in the Bible. Four Features of…

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Posted on June 24, 2021June 25, 2021

Trade places?

Seneca advised that people should allow only those to influence them “who teach us by their lives, who tell us what we ought to do…

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Posted on June 8, 2021June 7, 2021

Bald tires

I just got new tires for my truck. Honestly, I let them go a bit longer that I usually do. They were looking pretty bad.…

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Posted on June 1, 2021May 27, 2021

Summer job

During college, my summer job was to work on an assembly line building kitchen cabinets. I was on the "base" line, which meant we built…

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Posted on May 31, 2021May 27, 2021

Fast friends

Friendships take a long time to forge. I've written here about the idea that we should expect to invest 400 hours before we really feel…

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Posted on May 17, 2021May 13, 2021

Reciprocity

"Mom, how come I don't get letters in the mail?" "Do you write letters, Danny?" "Well, no." "If you want letters to come to you--try…

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Posted on May 12, 2021May 10, 2021

True friends

One of the most touching scenes in The Fellowship of the Ring is when Frodo's friends tell him that they will be going with him…

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Posted on April 28, 2021April 22, 2021

Generosity

"The feeling of being owed will destroy our ability to do generous work....""It draws our eye to the mirror instead of the work....""Gratitude isn't a…

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Posted on April 26, 2021April 26, 2021

Leadership is lonely

If you're a leader, you're in a different category--one that by definition automatically has fewer people in it. Sometimes this comes at a surprise. When…

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