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The Usual Stupid Nattering about Computers

Posted on April 19, 2015 by ehurst

There is some vague possibility some folks might find this useful… The other day I hauled out my Win7 laptop to complete formatting before submitting my book to the publisher. It had a copy of Word 2003, the last version … Continue reading →

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Plotting against Divine Sovereignty

Posted on April 19, 2015 by ehurst

There is the message, and then we have the methods and means of that message. Were our world not so hostile to heart-led living, we wouldn’t have to waste so much time and effort explaining it. Every blog post holds … Continue reading →

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Psalm 46

Posted on April 18, 2015 by ehurst

A psalm from the Korahites, Martin Luther said this was the basis for his famous “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” hymn, but there are also more recent songs from it. This and the next two seem to form a … Continue reading →

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Heart of Faith Published

Posted on April 17, 2015 by ehurst

The cover art is something I grabbed from US government archives under public domain, this time using the site run by the federal highway folks. They have these nice tourist drives with pictures listed on their site. You might want … Continue reading →

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Heart of Faith: Epilogue

Posted on April 17, 2015 by ehurst

Epilogue Nothing precludes bringing your heart of faith into your church. You are the one to decide if God calls you out of, or into, or alongside, any existing institution. We should hope this teaching is not divisive in the … Continue reading →

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Leaking from the Heart

Posted on April 16, 2015 by ehurst

While whistleblowing is almost pure politics, leaking is a divine art. The Internet itself is pretty deceptive. That is, the same systemic deception you see everywhere else has invaded the Net, in that the coolest and most attractive sites are … Continue reading →

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Heart of Faith: Conclusion

Posted on April 16, 2015 by ehurst

Don’t live in your head. Be on guard against simplistic reading of the Hebrew Scriptures. Yes, Jeremiah 17:9 says that “the heart is desperately wicked” in most English translations. Hebrew thinking is the antithesis of legalistic semantic wrangling. A fair … Continue reading →

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Heart of Faith: Chapter 11

Posted on April 15, 2015 by ehurst

Chapter 11 — Testing, Testing I propose a test. Teaching the mind to follow the leadership of the heart takes time, for those who have never tried it. The full flower is when a firmly held intellectual belief is trumped … Continue reading →

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Church of the Heart

Posted on April 14, 2015 by ehurst

We struggle to get Westerners to see beyond a single unitary universe. We further struggle to get them to see various levels within that one universe. The native conceptual instinct of Westerners is to see everything on the same concrete, … Continue reading →

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Heart of Faith: Insertion

Posted on April 14, 2015 by ehurst

(This was a delayed submission that will be in the book, inserted before my story.) Jeanette’s Story My parents were cold and unloving and had no idea how to prepare their daughters for living in this world. After I gave … Continue reading →

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