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Nobody Is Tempted to Serve
For those of us who live heart-led, it’s not too hard to untangle the mess. This figure tells a story that is no way surprising to anyone who has worked on software projects before: demand for fixes and features is … Continue reading
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Tagged business, Free and Open Source Software, heart-mind, management, moral imperative, software development
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Psalm 82
Always: Context is everything in Hebrew. People have made much of God (Elohim) referring to other figures in this psalm as gods (elohim). But it takes only a quick review of the Books of Moses to see that the term … Continue reading
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Tagged Asaph, government, heart-mind, moral imperatives, Psalms
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This-n-That
Economic collapse: The US is there. You didn’t know that? Perhaps the meaning of the phrase “economic collapse” is what eludes you. There is less disposable income and a significant portion of the population is unemployed when they’d rather be … Continue reading
Heart World Aborning
You can’t do this with your head, only by your heart. It’s not that people can’t change via lesser faculties, but your heart is the only part of you that can find reality and your proper path through it. The … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, cycling, economics, heart-mind, moral consciousness, mysticism, survival, technology
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Prayers for the New Year
I’m striving to be accountable to God and His people. As we adjusts our thinking to what God actually said, one of the most difficult things we do is get a grip on His promises. When He said things about … Continue reading
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Tagged miscellaneous, prayer request, survival
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Disavowing Seen and Unseen
The title is a reference to a couple of services run out of Iceland — Seen.is and Unseen.is — that I didn’t know were such nitwits about networking and encryption. I once recommended them, but grew increasingly annoyed at their … Continue reading
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Tagged compsec, email, internet, networking technology
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Hack Yourself
It is not a question of in-the-heart versus in-the-head. It’s both at the same time — and more. It may not be easy for us coming out of a binary-linear-thinking culture, and it’s not much better with the current trend … Continue reading
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Tagged civilization, computers, culture, government bureaucracy, heart-mind, mysticism, networked communication, oppression, survival, technology, tribulation
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Proverbs 26
The advice to nobility continues, with an emphasis to watch out for certain kinds of people. We remind ourselves that “fool” and “folly” refer to a failure to subject the mind to the supremacy of the heart. Thus, it is … Continue reading
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Tagged King Solomon, leadership, moral discernment, proverbs, wisdom literature
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Moral Order of Things
Eternity is not merely time without end; it is life without time. God’s will is not some static and inexorable destiny for all Creation. His will is the moral fabric of reality itself. Even our freedom within this realm of … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, moral discernment, mysticism, otherworldly
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Wise Silence
In our study in Proverbs, we are told repeatedly that you cannot teach a fool. You can help them keep their folly to themselves only if you hold dominion and are prepared to use violence. For most of us, we … Continue reading
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Tagged heart-mind, moral discernment, mysticism, otherworldly, proverbs, wisdom literature
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