Tag Archives: moral discernment

The Lie of Open Society

Posted on July 12, 2016 by ehurst

Perhaps you’ve heard of the Open Society concept. Despite all the sweet sounding rhetorical promises, it’s a lie from Satan. It presumes the perfectibility of man, a flat rejection of God’s revelation. The major flaw is the rejection of man’s … Continue reading →

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Psalm 107

Posted on July 2, 2016 by ehurst

Book 5: Psalms 107-150 This is a catchall collection of several smaller collections of public worship songs, including the songs of Ascents and Hallelujah psalms. In other ways it seems to celebrate specifically covenant promises and how to claim them. … Continue reading →

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Toward Eden

Posted on June 26, 2016 by ehurst

If you go outside today and speak to the grass, flowers, trees and birds, you’ll discover that they aren’t too worried about Brexit. The rocks and dirt may seem untroubled by the 500 trillion dollars of notional derivative debts held … 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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Anti-Activism

Posted on June 16, 2016 by ehurst

It’s a question of dominion. You and I are permitted to take assertive action only within the boundaries of covenant. When it comes to social and political issues, the prevailing applicable covenant is Noah’s. We could easily get lost hashing … Continue reading →

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Down Payment

Posted on June 12, 2016 by ehurst

Some of you reading this are, or will be soon, under a prophetic calling. There is simply too much divine business at hand that my prophetic gift should be isolated; I’m not equipped to handle this alone. Forget all the … Continue reading →

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Legitimate Suffering

Posted on June 12, 2016 by ehurst

Re: Suffering Is Your Ally — Steven raises a common and important issue Westerners have with suffering and pain. On the one extreme, we have a typically middle-class American doctrine in the Prosperity Gospel. This idea stands on the ancient … Continue reading →

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On the Evils of Chivalry

Posted on June 10, 2016 by ehurst

Let’s not get bogged down in the details. What Westerners in general, and Americans in particular, laud as good moral guidelines stands in flat contradiction to the Bible. Broadly, chivalry as a body of lore arising from the European Middle … Continue reading →

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Don’t Surrender Your Kids

Posted on June 7, 2016 by ehurst

It’s all finger-pointing and blame-shifting. The teachers complain that parents don’t know how to raise well-behaved children. Parents say the teachers spend more time with their kids than they do at home, which makes the teachers the dominant influence in … 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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