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No Cookie Cutter
There’s nothing wrong with adding some entertainment value to your worship. However, when entertainment is the only thing happening, we have a problem. This is was my primary complaint with Life Church and a few other religious institutions I’ve experienced. … Continue reading
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Tagged entertainment, LifeChurch, ministry, mission, Pastor Craig, religion, spirituality
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Tribulation Reminder
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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Tagged civilization, human nature, internet, mission, technology, tribulation, war
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Conviction versus Guilt
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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Tagged call to repentance, divine mercy, false guilt, law, mysticism, scripture, spirituality
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Paint Your Own Picture
Don’t ape the particulars; strive for the essence. You and I cannot be genuinely Hebraic, nor should we desire it. The context of that era is long gone in human experience. The people who bore it naturally threw it away … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient hebrew culture, ANE, civilization, culture, epistemology, history, human history, mysticism, scripture
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Restoring Divine Justice
A life worth living requires a vision bigger than yourself. God’s wrath is also God’s blessing. When the Lord brings His Presence to bear on a human situation, some will feel His wrath, some will feel His loving mercy, and … Continue reading
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Tagged divine justice, divine mercy, moral consciousness, mysticism, spirituality
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Treasury of Hearts
I tell you the solemn truth, the person who believes in me will perform the miraculous deeds that I am doing, and will perform greater deeds than these, because I am going to the Father. (John 14:12 NET) I spent … Continue reading
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Tagged Charismatics, epistemology, miracles of Jesus, mysticism, scripture, Western Christian mythology
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Got Your Moral Poncho?
When things get really stormy, umbrellas are silly. Get a poncho. I found something to keep me occupied while stuck inside the house today. I tend to agree with the substance of this long article about world political affairs and … Continue reading
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Tagged current-events, economics, Noah's Covenant, peace, politics, Quantum Morality, quantum reasoning, social sciences
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Torturing Scripture
“But what if some terrorist had your little daughter chained to a bomb…?” “Yes, what if. What if you decided to trust God for things you can’t and shouldn’t control instead of trying to control things for which you refuse … Continue reading
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Tagged American evangelicals, ancient hebrew culture, epistemology, Martin Luther, mysticism, Reformation, scripture, spirituality, writing
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Tools of the Soul
Your mind, with all it’s knowledge, assumptions and beliefs, is just a tool of the soul. I dearly love the work of our dear Sister Wildcucumber. I find her sweet voice worthy of harmonizing with my baritone. The dominant thread … Continue reading
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Tagged beliefs, epistemology, intellect, mysticism, Post-Enlightenment Western thinking, psychology, Sister Wildcucumber, spirituality, Two Realms
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