Monthly Archives: September 2012

The Parable of Boundaries

If you haven’t spent time alone with yourself, feeling for your personal boundaries, you aren’t ready for life. We could rephrase that for Christians as spending time in God’s presence, in prayer and meditation, but on the human plane the … Continue reading

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Game: Power and Pursuit

Humans are adaptable. This is what puts them at the top of the food chain. Losing adaptability makes you prey. Surrendering it intentionally makes you stupid prey, including prey for the demons. Men are adaptable, but there are limits. This … Continue reading

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Habakkuk 2

Wisely does Habakkuk announce he will wait on God to answer, for the Lord does all things in His own good time. We struggle to understand how the Hebrew mind viewed time so differently. The hand of God moves when … Continue reading

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Taste and Art

I know what I like. You can lock me in a chair where I have to listen to your favorite music, but even after days and weeks of this torture, I’m not likely to appreciate your taste in music. Humans … Continue reading

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Germanic Mythology and Game

This is hardly a scholarly treatise, more of a characterization based on broad observations of how things work. It’s short so you can extrapolate with your own intelligence. Post-Modern Western society is largely founded on Greco-Roman intellectual assumptions mixed with … Continue reading

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The Logic of Rejecting Mainstream Churches

For all my religious blather, I don’t attend any regular church. We host worship in our home. I don’t like the isolation, but I don’t see any realistic alternative. Besides, the churches won’t let me stay around very long, once … Continue reading

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Progressive Folly

One of the biggest mistakes we make is underestimating human adaptability. A much bigger mistake is assuming you can steer that adaptation on a large scale. It never ceases to amaze me how Progressives get this backward. They have no … Continue reading

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Sick Day

She apologized. “I’m sorry; we’re bothering you.” My reply almost made her laugh. “Don’t worry about it. Right now being alive bothers me.” We thought it would be a safe choice, but Mazzio’s gluten-free pizza never digested yesterday. I wasn’t … Continue reading

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Handling Self-Doubt

This would be a HOWTO, except I’m not sure how much applies to other folks. This is simply how I handle it. It’s possible I’m completely delusional about God. That is, I can’t prove to even my own satisfaction what … Continue reading

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Ready and Not

Being a Christian Mystic is hardly a matter of absolute truth, nor simply saying, “I have encountered God, and I am forever changed.” Those are true, but miss the point. What matters here is I am in contact with God … Continue reading

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