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Empty Noise Less Useful Than Wind

If it were merely the wind, it would at least serve a healthful purpose, but the world is full of noise which is less than useless. When I pass through the public sphere, listening to people yakking on cellphones, the … Continue reading

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Ideals and Norms in Micah

The study in Micah 4 touches on a couple of connected issues. First is ideals. We should have ideals, in the sense of something unreachable on this plane. Society needs something out of reach to which people aspire. People who … Continue reading

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Micah 4

Truth resides in Heaven, which truth bears implications for our world below. What would the world be like if men obeyed that truth? Micah reveals a vision of Heaven manifested on earth. The imagery symbolizes what could be, a future … Continue reading

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The Earth Beneath Your Feet

Where can you go when the ground itself won’t hold still? I know a young child, not yet school age but able to talk, after a fashion. That fashion frequently includes whining. The child is learning it from Mommy, who … Continue reading

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Wildfire Season in Oklahoma

In this second year of severe drought and exceptionally high temperatures, the wildfires are back again. We have one to our north, not so very far from my biking area along the North Canadian River. Current information indicates this one … Continue reading

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Truth Will Always Be Otherworldly

It is not possible to get at the truth of this world from within this world. Not even on a small scale can we pretend to have found the objective truth of anything in this plane of existence. If we … Continue reading

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Not for Long

I’m not Green; I don’t worship Mother Earth. The earth is only the mother of my flesh, the part of me I keep having to kill every day. I’m not too attached to it. That doesn’t keep me from caring … Continue reading

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More Open Than Closed

Perhaps you have heard the old hymn: There’s a wideness, in God’s mercy, like the wideness of the sea. Too often we extend our private faith in ways God did not intend, and does not support. It’s one thing to … Continue reading

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Stepping Up the Game

There is so much crap going on, it’s hard to keep track. So this past few weeks I’ve stepped up my workouts. At a minimum, I figure my VA pension will go “POOF!” in the all too near future. That … Continue reading

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Recapitulation: Summary of God's Laws

From time to time, the conversation seems to lose track of fundamentals. People make all sorts of mistaken assumptions and we end up talking pasts each other. Let me restate a quick summary of what I mean by God’s Laws … Continue reading

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