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Understanding Miracles
Our Western Civilization is loaded with so much intellectual trash, it’s a wonder anyone finds peace with God. Still, it’s there for those who seek His favor. Along with everything else that comes with His favor is a phenomenon in … Continue reading
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Tagged Biblical Law, convictions, Covenant of Christ, covenants, Creation, faith, Garden of Eden, heart-led, Law Covenants, miracles, natural world, radix fidem, the Fall
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A Tool for His Glory
For breakfast this morning I had a slice of gluten free bread (mostly rice flour), a patty of hot breakfast sausage, a slice of uncolored American cheese (it’s white without food coloring), one egg over easy, and a scoop of … Continue reading
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Tagged convictions, faith, pastoral counseling, shalom
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The Best This Life Has to Offer
The will of God is its own reward. We can call it all kinds of things — Biblical Law, the character of Christ, the Word of the Lord — but the will of God for you is, in the most … Continue reading
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Tagged Biblical Law, clear conscience, communion, convictions, Creation, divine revelation, fellow believers, fundamental assumptions, mission
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Where Are You?
Claiming monotheism is theology. It’s an intellectual position derived from a very non-intellectual faith. Henotheism is not theology; it’s a practice. In case that’s a new word to you, I’ll save you from looking it up: henotheism is the belief … Continue reading
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Tagged convictions, covenant community of faith, Covenant of Noah, covenants, epistemology, faith, phenomenology
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Pastoral Psychology and the Heart 04
Moral truth was firmly established before Creation. The fatal flaw in choosing the Forbidden Fruit is that the human intellect is utterly incapable of being objective. Reason leading to objective truth is just a myth. Inevitably the traffic feeding into … Continue reading
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Tagged conscience, conscious awareness, convictions, Creation, heart, psychology
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Pastoral Psychology and the Heart 03
Making a deity of any part of yourself is a poor substitute for reaching out to eternity. Some of you may have heard of B.F. Skinner and his theory that human personality is nothing more than the net result of … Continue reading
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Tagged convictions, cultural anthropology, faith, Garden of Eden, heart, intellect, psychology, scripture, spiritual birth, the Fall
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Ask Yourself: Where Is His Glory?
Tonight I had a conversation with a friend about abortion. This is something where we can apply the biblical process of multi-level moral reasoning. Reduced to it’s bottom line in Biblical Law, it’s nobody’s business but the mother and her … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglo-American culture, Biblical Law, convictions, divine justice, family, law, otherworldly, reason
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Faith Is Faith
Let’s clarify something: What we here at Kiln of the Soul call “heart-led” is synonymous with genuine faith. The problem is that most Christians use the word “faith” with a different meaning, different from what we mean and different from … Continue reading
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Tagged Biblical Mysticism, convictions, epistemology, faith, heart-led, western christianity
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Demonic Mythology of the Mind
One of the biggest flaws in Western Christian thinking is to externalize and project moral conflict outside of self. The idea that all moral conflict is outside of oneself permits the deeply false model of internal problems as “illness.” The … Continue reading
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Tagged convictions, demons, individual faith, moral authority, sensory heart, spiritual warfare
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For Everything a Season
An issue in the mind of Simon the Pharisee in Luke 7 was that of defilement. For him, keeping oneself ceremonially clean was equivalent to holiness, and the key to God’s favor. Since he was scrupulous to maintain that ritual … Continue reading
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Tagged Biblical Law, convictions, divine justice, heart-led, human government, moral purity, penitence, rituals
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