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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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Tagged divine justice, jesus parables, law, mission, mysticism, scripture, spirituality
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Chasing Sheep on Narrow Tracks
He doesn’t have too awful many, so it’s worth chasing down the few that can be found. I’m serving the Shepherd King. That’s a parable of reality, a parable and reality few recognize, never mind what the PR suggests. He … Continue reading
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Tagged civilization, gospel, human understanding, intellect, leadership, mission, parable, scripture, spirituality
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Ignore Me If You Can
Fundamental to our message is that we have no intention of convincing anyone of anything. What we hope is to offer a slice of truth that compels attention of itself. We don’t get in God’s way because we never imagined … Continue reading
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Tagged mission, mysticism, psychology, scripture, spirituality
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Shouting Silence
The biggest problem in acquainting Westerners with truth is their lack of a sense of paradox. Yeah, they can learn it, but to make it instinctive is what is so difficult. Without that predisposition to expect paradox, truth remains elusive. … Continue reading
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Tagged mission, mysticism, religion, spirituality, The Great Commission
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What to Expect
All I have is my limited analytical talents and my intuition, so take this with a grain of salt. This is a working model I’ll use until it crumbles. The Cabal should not be identified with any particular institution. It … Continue reading
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Tagged economics, government, internet, mission, mysticism, oppression, resistance, social sciences
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Sacrificial Service
In order to give shape to what I consider a renewed religion, I made some changes to my static website (gone as of 2020). One of the first articles linked there is “Summary of Opposition,” an outline of how I … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian religion, human need, Humility, mission, psychology, religion, serving, spirituality
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Flooding Human Vanity
We think of vanity as a bottomless pit. Solomon’s royal service manual (Ecclesiastes) starts out announcing that our human existence is vanity. The translation could as easily be meaningless, pointless or futile. The root meaning of the English word “vanity” … Continue reading
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Tagged civilization, culture, fitness, health, mission, psychology, spirituality, Two Realms
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I’m Tech Support
This is an exercise in mirror reading. There is no social group for me. I’m an alien in virtually every human context, in part because I am “not of this world” (Romans 12:2) — Even among my fellow Christians, I … Continue reading
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Tagged epistemology, ministry, mission, mysticism, philosophy, psychology, social context, spirituality, tech support, technology, virtual world
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Dinner with Jesus
Jesus wined and dined with sinners. This was no mere social justice campaign. That it appears as such is merely the insistence of reading modern Western politics back into something totally alien. It’s not as if Jesus never engaged in … Continue reading
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Tagged human institutions, human nature, Jesus, mission, mysticism, psychology, religion, social justice, spirituality, Two Realms
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