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Have you ever thought to yourself that Christians are judgmental hypocrites?  Well, you're in reasonable company.  Jesus himself said to the Pharisees of his time: Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, who look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.  In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. Matthew 23:27-28 Ah, but be careful before you jump on the bandwagon.  Christians get a lot of hate stuff on the internet.  Just recently I saw two consecutive internet memes on Facebook, essentially attacking Christians in general, that they are judgmental hypocrites.  I really had to laugh.  By posting up something like this - don't you see that YOU are being judgmental?  And doesn't that consequentially make YOU hypocritical when you accuse others of being judgmental?  Unl

I went out for lunch with a couple of colleagues recently, and the topic of Flappy Birds, Candy Crush and other similarly addictive games came up.  One of my colleagues shared that she and her whole family spent a lot of time on mobile games, and asked me if I faced any challenges in disciplining my children on computer game time. Now I must confess that my son does spend quite a lot of time on computer games.  I myself enjoy playing games whenever time permits.  Some of these games are really ingeniously designed to encourage never-ending game time.  They often do this by compelling the player to frequently check on his progress in real time, or giving in-game rewards for extended, regular or frequent gameplay. I’m nowhere near being a paragon of computer game time discipline.  But I have discovered a good tool that I use from time to time.  My son knows that I like to play computer games too.  So one time, when he was, as usual, asking for just 5 more minutes of playti