Picturepocket's Blog

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  • The Algorithm 

    The Algorithm 

    Yesterday, my phone was telling me things. First it urged me go get my daughter from camp 15 minutes early because it was Friday and traffic is a little worse around Portland area in the afternoon. It was totally accurate and I arrived exactly on time for pick up. Then got a text that my…

  • Romans 7: Wanting More

    Paul uses the example of “till death do we part,” of marriage to explain the law. He says that if you remarry after your spouse dies, you don’t break the your vow of marriage. Similarly, under Christ, we are in a new arrangement, we are no longer bound by the previous commitment. We are not…

  • Acts 18: Multiplication 

    Paul goes to Corinth and meets up with Aquila and Pricilla, Italian believers who left when Emperor Claudius kicked the Jews out of Rome ~50 A.D. He stayed and worked as a tentmaker with them. Even missionaries need to make money sometimes. Every week Paul went to the synagogue to try to reason with the…

  • John 13: Self-Serve

    At the Passover supper, Jesus washed his disciples feet. Peter does not know how to handle it. First he refuses because he feels it’s not right for the master to serve the follower, but Jesus responds that if he doesn’t allow it, Peter will have no share with him. Then Peter asks Jesus to wash…

  • Boomtown

    Today I am going to talk about economics. Not that I am necessarily qualified to do so, I only took two classes in it. My maternal grandmother on the other hand, majored in economics and graduated with a degree in it, from Berkeley, in the 1930s  Can you imagine what that was like? Studying about…

  • Bringing Home the Bacon

    A few weeks back, Tim and I had a disastrous day. It started out normal enough, Tim went to work and I got the kids off to school. With the house empty, I then settled into my work-from-home routine. I login and listen to the morning training Zoom call on my phone while walking the…

  • The Insignificant Other

    Every day I make appointments with people to go over their life insurance. When I schedule the appointment, I go out of my way to ensure that they include their significant other in the conversation. The main reason is that most people won’t make important decisions without their person, so having them on the call…

  • The Tale of Two Colleges

    I have been to college twice, and then taught at several colleges for over 20 years. For a long time, I could not understand people‘s negative attitude about higher education. Why would people hate learning so much? Why would people not want someone to grow and achieve more than the level that their parents had?…

  • Money

    I often hear you don’t need money to be happy, but our cash-based society, everyone needs money to pay for things. Shelter, food, clothing, transportation, education and medicine cost money. All those things have to be paid for my somebody. Money can also purchase services and buy time that would otherwise be taken up by…

  • Sales 2

    A couple of weeks, I wrote about struggling through my week with several days with no sales. I now can understand a little how realtors feel by going to lots of open houses or car sales people feel after going on lots of test drives. The good news is that I did make a substantial…