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Bits and Pieces 16
Tying up some loose ends that don’t justify a whole post… Current subscriptions to this blog are well past 400 now. It’s nice to think my audience might be that large, but I’d be surprised if even a quarter of … Continue reading
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Tagged government, marriage, miscellaneous, mysticism, oppression, propaganda, psychology, religion, war, writing
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Moments of Moral Clarity
Sometimes those moments when the moral obligations are most obvious is when it hurts the most. In my world there is a particular person who is rather close, to the point of under my feet, as it were. This person … Continue reading
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Tagged biblical morality, culture, moral obligations, mortality, scripture, social conditioning, society, spirituality
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I Was Just Trying to Help
Let’s explore some of the implications of the Doctrine of Leverage and all my blather about Christlike charity and moral sacrifice. We understand the necessity of standing back and suffering the empathy of those who hurt without taking action because … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglo-Saxon, arrogance, charity, civilization, culture, moral perception, psychology, resistance, society, western civilization
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Mission Technology and Technology Mission
In terms of our meat space activity, the mission always comes first. Nobody said you can’t have hobbies and entertainment, but you must evaluate them as to whether they hinder the mission. No one ever really grows up to the … Continue reading
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Tagged centos, compsec, computer ministry, computer technology, computers, mission, moral consciousness, software development, technology
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Moral Discernment
It’s never what I expect. That has never hindered me serving fruitfully, but it seems to be a given that I’ll be looking in the wrong direction when it comes. So I have learned to spend less time on developing … Continue reading
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Tagged moral perception, mysticism, spirituality
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The Doctrine of Leverage
Our doctrine is that changing human behavior requires leverage. Any leverage we might have comes from God alone. God may permit humans to chase a lot of different approaches for gaining leverage, but His moral character restricts His servants to … Continue reading
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Tagged leverage, mission, moral accountability, moral character, mysticism, peace, propaganda, spirituality
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This Little Light of Mine
Maybe you’ve heard the children’s ditty: This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine! Let’s face it, the religion I teach here is frankly weird, if you come at it from any part of mainstream Christianity. Superficially we … Continue reading
Failure to Act Is No Sin
One of the greatest mistakes we make as believers is to surrender our allegiance to Christ in favor of allowing someone else to be our false Christ. The frantic urgency of activism assumes a self-evident course of action is the … Continue reading
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Tagged christian activism, epistemology, peace, propaganda, psychology, spirituality
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Three Bits on Sunday
There is a divine order to our plane of existence, but it will ever elude the human intellect. You can give yourself a leg up if you choose to embrace divine revelation to the degree possible. That means dismissing the … Continue reading
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Tagged false dichotomy, game, human intellect, human nature, intellect, marriage, mysticism, psychology, spirituality
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Introspection and Trust
James, the brother of Jesus who eventually became the chief elder of the churches in Jerusalem, once noted wryly that some people look in a mirror and see their faces, but never check the mirror of their souls (James 1:19-27). … Continue reading
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Tagged civility, mission, psychology, sense of humor, spirituality
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