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Monthly Archives: June 2016
Legitimate Suffering
Re: Suffering Is Your Ally — Steven raises a common and important issue Westerners have with suffering and pain. On the one extreme, we have a typically middle-class American doctrine in the Prosperity Gospel. This idea stands on the ancient … Continue reading
Posted in teaching
Tagged heart-led, moral discernment, psychology, scripture, sorrow
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Psalm 104
This is another of those soaring lyrical songs that is impossible to summarize. What may not be obvious is that we have ample examples from other cultures across the whole region and in different millennia of the Ancient Near East … Continue reading
Pastoral Letters Updated
The short Bible notes on Paul’s Pastoral Letters has been updated and reformatted. You can see it here (gone now). As always, if you simply save the single HTML page as it is, all the formatting comes with it. Update: … Continue reading
Posted in administration
Tagged publishing, scripture, writing
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Progress Prayer Request
Bottom line: I need a rowing machine because biking is still a very long way off. Rowing is the only way I can engage the aerobic training so important to my general fitness. I’d love to have a kayak or … Continue reading
Posted in personal
Tagged health, medicine, physical fitness, prayer request
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On the Evils of Chivalry
Let’s not get bogged down in the details. What Westerners in general, and Americans in particular, laud as good moral guidelines stands in flat contradiction to the Bible. Broadly, chivalry as a body of lore arising from the European Middle … Continue reading
Posted in sanity
Tagged biblical morality, heart-led, moral discernment, political activists, war, Western mythology
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Mission and Mortality
If it were a simple matter of efficiency and logic, we would all simply commit suicide. Perhaps he didn’t intend to teach what I caught from it, but one of the fellows who helped to shape my awareness during my … Continue reading
Posted in religion
Tagged Anglo-Saxon, Christian mythology, history, intellect, literature, western intellectual heritage
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The Antichrist
I generally avoid this subject because there is much unadulterated bullshit about it. Here is an excerpt from my updated notes on 2 Thessalonians 2. ———- Now we come to the point of this second letter to Thessalonica. Someone was … Continue reading
Posted in bible
Tagged Antichrist, Dispensationalism, scripture, Second Coming
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Don’t Surrender Your Kids
It’s all finger-pointing and blame-shifting. The teachers complain that parents don’t know how to raise well-behaved children. Parents say the teachers spend more time with their kids than they do at home, which makes the teachers the dominant influence in … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged children, Creation, heart-led, human behavior, human development, moral discernment, psychology, social mythology, western civilization
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Another Lie of Satan
I’m very fond of Edin-Adahl. I have several of their songs on my FTP server. Not only was their music writing and arrangements very innovative, but Frank Adahl’s voice is a singularity, with a range and skill hard to match. … Continue reading
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Tagged music, propaganda, religion, scripture, Western Christian mythology
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