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Quartz Mountain State Park

Posted on March 19, 2026 by ehurst

This is less about the park and more about the terrain. Not all of Oklahoma is flat. These hills are made entirely of granite, and there are some pockets of quartz scattered around. These first three shots are a view … Continue reading →

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Won’t Admit It

Posted on March 17, 2026 by ehurst

When I was a ministry student at Oklahoma Baptist University, studies in Western Civilization were a very big thing. It was a major course of study that occupied something close to a quarter of our entire undergraduate course load. By … Continue reading →

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His One Law

Posted on March 14, 2026 by ehurst

In Acts 1, the resurrected Jesus warned His followers that they were not going to hear from God about specific human political changes, because those issues didn’t matter to His Kingdom. He wanted them to focus on spiritual power for … Continue reading →

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Dumbfounded How Bad It Is

Posted on March 10, 2026 by ehurst

Re: Is America Winning or Losing the War with Iran? Leave it to Ron Unz to defy censorship with such flair. We are not there to see it. The people there are generally not allowed to talk about it. Still, … Continue reading →

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Clarification: Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28

Posted on March 10, 2026 by ehurst

Short answer — most people read this backwards. They insist that the text points to something else, when it is that something else is pointing back to the text. In your mind, envision an oral body of lore about the … Continue reading →

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Escaping the Empire

Posted on March 8, 2026 by ehurst

There were three rebellions in the Unseen Realm: the Fall in the Garden, the Watchers before the Flood, and the betrayal after the Tower of Babel. The Cross addressed all three. NT evangelism should also address all three. Churches today … Continue reading →

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Latter Day Idolatry

Posted on March 7, 2026 by ehurst

I’m not dead; I’ve just been busy. My biking blog will eventually explain in detail. In the Bible, the crux of sin was not in the actions you took. The matter of disobedience was itself secondary. The central core issue … Continue reading →

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Getting Words Right

Posted on February 28, 2026 by ehurst

Re: Naked Bible 131: Conference Interviews Part 4 Let’s talk about terminology. This is no different than anything we’ve said before; it’s just another person expressing the same thing when Heiser interviewed NT Wright. The Kingdom of God is what … Continue reading →

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More on Heart Power

Posted on February 22, 2026 by ehurst

Offline conversations make it clear that readers are missing my point. Allow me to make it more obvious to you: Living in your heart instead of your head is the pathway to reclaiming the miraculous promises of God. On the … Continue reading →

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Symbols and Icons

Posted on February 21, 2026 by ehurst

Re: Naked Bible 130: Conference Interviews Part 3 Heiser interviews David Burnett regarding his paper, “Death, Resurrection, and Transformation in Scripture in 1 Corinthians 15”. This has to do mostly with how the Septuagint and New Testament documents interplay via … Continue reading →

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