Category Archives: eldercraft

Mission and Friendships

Natural to our humanity is an appetite for warmth connected with a sense of identity. Something in us knows without any possible explanation that we must belong to something. If we do not, then a major element in our sense … Continue reading →

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A Quantum Step

Don’t follow me; search the pattern of my walk to find your own path. Yesterday I summarized afresh the concept of levels of awareness: This is merely a clinical expression of spiritual truth. (1) We are aware of the demands … Continue reading →

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Don’t Soil Yourself

Don’t forget the third pillar of disentanglement. Dear reader, my heart is burdened for you. Sometimes I hardly know where to start. Can you follow the quantum logic I use here? Have I explained it well enough and often enough … Continue reading →

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That Shepherd Character Thing

There’s a place for the shepherdess, but there is a huge, overwhelming need for men to rebel against social mythology. Guys, nothing in Christ’s teaching requires you to be nice all the time in every context. He cracked a whip; … Continue reading →

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The Refugees Keep Coming

I’d rather not talk about it, but this thing won’t die. Some of my readers are aware of my pointed criticism of LifeChurch.tv. There are several posts here, but one in particular drew way too many comments from people who … Continue reading →

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Call for Consciousness

It’s documented if you really want to see it. About a century ago in the US a bunch of wealth industrialists and financiers hired some pointy-headed elitists (a think tank) to devise a means for hijacking classical liberal arts education. … Continue reading →

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Lawful Grace; Graceful Law

Law is grace. Were it not for God’s fervent and determined favor toward us, there would be no revelation. Revelation has always been fundamentally addressed to humans where they stand in a fallen world and in fallen terms. The objective … Continue reading →

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Idolatry of Reason

Call it what you like; divine moral justice is nearly impossible to put into words. We can characterize it. That’s what parabolic language is for and Jesus used parables as the primary means to teaching. People whose spirits are alive … Continue reading →

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Certain

You can have certainty, but not certitude. It’s not so much the precise definitions of the words, but the connotations. The latter implies something outside of you, a basis in external reality, while the former is distinctly internal. In that … Continue reading →

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The Value of Life

The questions we face in dealing with Westerners is the underlying mythology. While you could easily round up a bunch of them and get each one to profess a different set of moral values, all of them together will remain … Continue reading →

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