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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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One Shepherd’s Style
You can’t pretend you are someone else for very long. Keeping secrets is dangerous, but keeping them from yourself is the most dangerous of all. I don’t want to know yours, but if my mission exposes me to secrets, I … Continue reading
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Tagged management, mission, moral accountability, mysticism, psychology, religion, work
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Truth and Facts
Just because I am a mystic doesn’t mean I ignore the facts. I am still trapped in this broken reality and still subject to how it works. That’s why I make so much of God’s Law Covenants. While they point … Continue reading
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Tagged computer science, computers, mission, mysticism, philosophy, psychology, religion, science, spirituality
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The Wrapped Gift
It’s not a Christmas present. It won’t be opened tomorrow. I figure it’s some time after the New Year. Going out on a limb here: I have sensed for several years a calling to something hidden in the mists beyond … Continue reading
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Tagged mission, mysticism, psychology, spirituality
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Conspiracies Abounding
All government is a conspiracy; people conspire to hold power over others because we wouldn’t call it “government” if some small group were not exercising authority over others. Let’s unpack this. The Internet has done more to place information in … Continue reading
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Tagged government, internet, mission, mysticism, psychology, resistance
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Shepherd Tough
We are shepherds; we exult in our toughness. Not that we idolize the little engine that could, but we each seek to be the little engine that would. It is not the toughness of “we can do it” but of … Continue reading
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Tagged leadership, mission, mysticism, peace, spirituality, toughness
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