Showing posts with label Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life. Show all posts

September 7, 2014

500 Free Online Courses

ALISON is doing something very simple but very significant: providing a free platform and a free package of resources which enable anyone, anywhere, anytime to build up, or brush up, on the knowledge or skills they want. They provide over 500 high-quality, certified, multimedia courses, free to individual learners. They want to do this because they believe education is a basic right for everyone, no matter where in the world they live. They are able to do it because major changes in learning, education and the Internet make it possible. Whatever you see, is free, to you as an individual learner....

October 31, 2013

5 Odd Phobias You Never Knew Existed

Everybody's afraid of something. Whether it be flying, public speaking, spiders or the dreaded dentist, we all have things that make us squirm. When that fear becomes strong enough and irrational enough though, it develops into a full-blown phobia. Of course, not all phobias are created equal; some are just more irrational than others. It's pretty easy to understand how the fear of heights (acrophobia) or dying (thanatophobia) can fill somebody with paralyzing dread, but what about the fear of chickens (alektorophobia) or chopsticks (consecotaleophobia)? Guess somebody isn't ordering the...

October 23, 2013

Stop Taking Jeremiah 29:11 Out of Context

It's one of our favorite verses—but we've gotten it all wrong. It’s written on graduation cards, quoted to encourage a person who can’t seem to find God’s well and doled out like a doctor explaining a prescription: Take Jeremiah 29:11 a few times, with a full glass of water, and call me in the morning. I think you’ll feel better. “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future’” Jeremiah 29:11 tells us—possibly one of our most beloved, yet most misunderstood, verses in the entire Bible. Sure, it...

September 20, 2013

Are You Too Hard on Yourself???

I have a feeling that I am not the only person who has a list of things I wish I should not have done, or said, or thought in my life. Sometimes my mind will suddenly remind me of something I did back in middle school and I start beating myself up mentally for it yelling silently “why did I do that”, “what was I thinking” then insecurity and lack of confidence sets in. Or mistakes in later life, in general doing what I thought was right, and not what is in a plan for a happy life. God can deliver you from being too hard on yourself, and he desperately wants to remind...