Tag Archives: intellect

New and Ancient Normal

Posted on June 20, 2016 by ehurst

A clinical approach will give you clinical results with a utility approaching zero. Conditions permitting, I go out each morning and pick up solid waste (pollutants) around my apartment building. That it looks nicer without visible trash is just a … Continue reading →

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Divine Amplification

Posted on June 17, 2016 by ehurst

We can never accurately predict actual outcomes. I am acquainted with the Social Sciences and the reasons they exist. It’s an attempt to analyze human behavior at large and quantify what goes in and what comes out. There is a … Continue reading →

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Head and Heart

Posted on June 14, 2016 by ehurst

I have no doubt that some US government agency is behind the slaughter in Orlando. I’ve worked in US government service; I’ve seen how it works. The hive-mind of the bureaucracy is dehumanizing, inhuman and inhumane. I know for a … Continue reading →

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Mission and Mortality

Posted on June 9, 2016 by ehurst

If it were a simple matter of efficiency and logic, we would all simply commit suicide. Perhaps he didn’t intend to teach what I caught from it, but one of the fellows who helped to shape my awareness during my … Continue reading →

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Relational Heart

Posted on June 4, 2016 by ehurst

It’s not that the heart does not comprehend data, but that the heart operates on a far higher level. The realm of moral imperative is not objective or impersonal, but intensely personal. The structure of heart “thinking” is relational. The … Continue reading →

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Ditch the Systematic Theology

Posted on June 2, 2016 by ehurst

“What must I do to be saved?” We see this question from the Philippian Jailer in Acts 16:30. The question itself arose from Greek culture. It became a figure of speech, so the actual meaning varies with the context. It … Continue reading →

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Duty to Deceive

Posted on May 30, 2016 by ehurst

First, a little context: faith = convictions = heart-mind moral discernment. We’ve had two millennia of people abusing the word “faith” to mean an intellectual body of belief plus the actions arising from such belief. It goes back to that … Continue reading →

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Factions and Sects

Posted on May 29, 2016 by ehurst

After the initial opening in 1 Corinthians 1, Paul immediately jumps into condemning sectarian divisions in verse 10 and following. It’s not hard to understand. The Corinthians detected intellectual variations in how the different apostles taught and preached. And why … Continue reading →

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Realm without Words

Posted on May 21, 2016 by ehurst

What can I tell you? I don’t want meaning. I want peace and faith. I want a connection to the Creator so that I can discern His character directly in Creation. What my mind can make of these things is … Continue reading →

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What the Hell?

Posted on May 18, 2016 by ehurst

Some of you get it, but it seems there is enough confusion that I need to restate things for clarity. I use the English word “Hell.” If you have been paying attention, you’ll notice I use it in the vernacular … Continue reading →

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