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Proverbs: Section 2

Section 2 — Chapters 10-29 In this section we will generally quote the proverbs verbatim, followed by an explanation. The Scripture text will taken be Green’s Modern King James Version (MKJV). Let’s take a moment to review a critical concept: … Continue reading

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The False Norse God

The sheikh of the clan expected it, could feel it coming. Some decision he made for the welfare of the whole family didn’t go as one of his nephews had hoped. The younger man came storming in and bellowed like … Continue reading

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Closer Is Better

Here at Kiln of the Soul virtual parish, there are several things your pastor emphasizes. I start from the position that God has called me. Then I lay out the things He has called me to share. You are quite … Continue reading

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Heart of the Mission

Heart-led living is not the mission, but the means to it. Whole civilizations rose and fell under the fundamental assumptions of heart-led living and paid little heed to our Creator. Rather, heart-led living is a basic necessity of living itself. … Continue reading

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Heart of Faith: Chapter 11

Chapter 11 — Testing, Testing I propose a test. Teaching the mind to follow the leadership of the heart takes time, for those who have never tried it. The full flower is when a firmly held intellectual belief is trumped … Continue reading

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Heart of Faith: Chapter 8

Chapter 8 — More on Legalism It seems odd that mainstream Christianity is so quick to nitpick over some passages of Scripture — what Christ called “sifting out gnats” from flour — and swallowing the camel on other passages (Matthew … Continue reading

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Heart of Faith: Chapter 1

Hebrew Outlook On the one hand, we need very much to correct the Western assumptions. Even very scholarly Christians tend to operate from perverted Western notions without giving it much thought. We can call them “perverted” because they are entirely … Continue reading

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Heart of Faith: Intro

It’s a tragedy of Western culture that relegates the heart to a mere metaphor of human emotion. Ours is the only culture that does that; every other civilization seems to have understood that the heart is quite literally the seat … Continue reading

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How Much in Charge?

I’m strictly hands-off on most things. Merely noting that the academic discipline of Comparative Civilizations is often a political boondoggle says so much about our Western Civilization. You would think that folks recognized there is no way to be truly … Continue reading

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BLDJ: Chapter 4

In essence, the Law of Noah is hard-wired into human nature. That is, the Law of Noah reflects what God revealed as the best way to live after the Fall. It would prevent the necessity of another global destruction of … Continue reading

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