Author Archives: ehurst

Long Before We Got There

Yesterday was both wonderful and awful for me. There is a common myth among believers that if you are suffering misfortune, it’s because you said or did something to which the Devil objects. You must be speaking the truth, because … Continue reading

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Refugees from All Nations

Dr. Heiser mentions [YouTube] that there were three different times members of God’s divine host rebelled. The first was in Eden; the Devil slipped into the Garden and tempted Adam and Eve away from their reliance on God’s Word, and … Continue reading

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Time to Place Your Bets

I get questions. In this case, the question itself is not important; it’s a matter of what it implies. We have a bad habit of not searching out the unspoken assumptions behind what we have been taught to think. To … Continue reading

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Until It No Longer Matters

As always, I put very little stock in human ambitions. Out of curiosity, I have been looking at the various conspiracy theories regarding the attempted assassination of Trump. They vary in their approaches, with some relying on the audio analysis, … Continue reading

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Would Love to Have You

We could sum it up like this: We are the gospel message. We live by faith and conviction. We bow the knee to Christ as Lord. We obey the Covenant, and that is Jesus’ command to love each other as … Continue reading

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Cyber Threats Increasing

Well, we had an outage on Friday from a large number of services. Their Windows computers were all crashed because they were using a security package from Crowdstrike. It conflicted with Windows and caused the “blue screen of death”. Keep … Continue reading

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NT Doctrine — Titus 1

We have only a small bit of doctrine in this chapter. However, in order to understand it, we must grasp the context in which Paul places a strong statement. This letter was written roughly the same time as 1 Timothy, … Continue reading

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Power for the Future

You can be a witness only for what you have experienced personally. I embraced the doctrine of Divine Election because it explained my personal faith experience. I did not choose Christ; He chose me. I had no choice. It wasn’t … Continue reading

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Imprecatory Prayer Targets

Sorry for the delay in posting this; I had computer issues today. There is a place for imprecatory prayer. It requires understanding that your first and highest loyalty is to Christ. You must absorb the kind of thinking that identifies … Continue reading

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Prayer for Polarization

How to you handle spite directed at you? I’m not worried about people who disagree with me. They have been present from the first day I began blogging back around 2000. Some within community disagree with some of what I … Continue reading

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