Author Archives: ehurst

Tribulation Reminder

Posted on January 17, 2015 by ehurst

From time to time, I try to remind myself and my readers that we are in a tribulation period. I use the term “tribulation” to refer to general suffering that most of us can feel directly, and which is clearly … Continue reading →

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Prayer Request: A Sponsor

Posted on January 16, 2015 by ehurst

(This seems like a good time to test the new tablet keyboard; it makes using a tablet for blogging a sane operation.) Your pastor has a more specific prayer request regarding the future of our mission here in meat space. … Continue reading →

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Ineffable, Inexplicable, Incomprehensible

Posted on January 16, 2015 by ehurst

Ineffable does not mean inexplicable. Have you ever seen a cloud chamber? You create a sealed environment using a hardened glass cylinder and load the air inside with water or alcohol vapor to the point of super-saturation. It gets cloudy … Continue reading →

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Persistence

Posted on January 15, 2015 by ehurst

More clowning for you. I’m not the sharpest guy. At least, not in the sense of being really quick. Sometimes my creativity will make it seem so, but I’m really not that fast. The honest truth is, if I haven’t … Continue reading →

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Taking Turns at Serenity

Posted on January 14, 2015 by ehurst

We have to stand in line. We can’t expect priority treatment, all the more so because we simply don’t have a nifty marketing brand. Our biggest draw is our power to live. You and I understand that we obey cosmic … Continue reading →

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Trail and Trial

Posted on January 14, 2015 by ehurst

You need a chuckle. If nothing else, I’ll clown for you so you can at least smile. So I tried out the tablet life and it’s not alive for me. I can surf, but when there’s a minor issue with … Continue reading →

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StT: Matthew 11:10

Posted on January 13, 2015 by ehurst

Another episode selected from the series “Gospel Red Herring: Spiritualizing the Text”. Jesus is discussing His cousin, John the Baptist, and quotes Malachi 3:1. There’s not much controversy here over what that means. Malachi has been hammering the Jewish leadership … Continue reading →

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Driven Out

Posted on January 12, 2015 by ehurst

Now in those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan River. And just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens splitting apart and the Spirit descending … Continue reading →

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The Android Play

Posted on January 11, 2015 by ehurst

For now, I can’t imagine doing any significant amount of typing on this tiny folding keyboard. However, I’m trying to see how much of my computer use can be shifted to my tablet. The objective is some nebulous sense of … Continue reading →

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Conviction versus Guilt

Posted on January 11, 2015 by ehurst

One of Satan’s greatest victories has been the mythology of objective truth. Do you know that the root cause of crippling false guilt is the imagination that you have transgressed some objective standard? That you will have to deal with … Continue reading →

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