I already wrote about how important friendships are. 

Just let me say this: 

Be careful choosing your friends. 

Who you are around will shape who you become. 

I have heard this in the same manner about writing.

It goes: 

“Be careful what you read – because eventually that’s how you will write.” 

I hope you choose friends that build you up, challenge you, encourage you, faithfully stand with you, and hold your hand as you chase after Jesus. 

In his book, No Wonder They Call Him Savior, Max Lucado says: 

“John teaches us that the strongest relationship with Christ may not necessarily be a complicated one. He teaches us that the greatest webs of loyalty are spun, not with airtight theologies or foolproof philosophies, but with friendships; stubborn, selfless, joyful friendships.” 

I love you. 

Don’t let someone convince you that science is everything. 

In short, there are two ways that humans increase our understanding of the world, inductive reasoning, and deductive reasoning.

Of course, Christians would include the voice of the Trinity in that list as well. 

Induction is reasoning based on evidence. This is simply science. 

Deduction is reasoning based on logic. This is philosophy. 

Many argue that science is everything. 

In the book Who made God, William Lane Craig points out: 

“But philosophers of science during the second half of the twentieth century came to realize that the whole scientific enterprise is based on certain assumptions that cannot be proved scientifically, but that are guaranteed by the Christian worldview: for example, the laws of logic, the orderly nature of the external world, the reliability of our cognitive faculties in knowing the world, the validity of inductive reasoning, and the objectivity of the moral values used in science. I want to emphasize that science could not even exist without these assumptions, and yet these assumptions cannot be proved scientifically. They are philosophical assumptions, which, interestingly, are part and parcel of a Christian worldview.” 

The issue shows that science can only look at things that are observable and testable.

And not all things are observable or testable.

See more of this in Black Swan, By: Nassim Taleb.

Science is not everything, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. 

I love you. 

I saw this on Twitter today from @dan_munz.

It is about the best advice I have seen on how to write an email.

He says:

How to write a good email:

1. Write your email

2. Delete most of it

3. Send 

I assume it has to do with the fact that, the longer any email you send is, the less likely someone is to look at it and actually read it. 

I think a good rule is:

If you can’t say it in 3 – 4 sentences, or less, find a different way to say it. 

Short and sweet is best. 

I love you. 

-Dad