Tag Archives: mysticism

Taking Turns at Serenity

Posted on January 14, 2015 by ehurst

We have to stand in line. We can’t expect priority treatment, all the more so because we simply don’t have a nifty marketing brand. Our biggest draw is our power to live. You and I understand that we obey cosmic … Continue reading →

Posted in sanity | Tagged mission, mysticism, peace, psychology, spirituality | 3 Comments

Driven Out

Posted on January 12, 2015 by ehurst

Now in those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan River. And just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens splitting apart and the Spirit descending … Continue reading →

Posted in personal | Tagged computers, gospel message, mission, mysticism, nature, prayer, spirituality, technology, weather, writing | 2 Comments

Conviction versus Guilt

Posted on January 11, 2015 by ehurst

One of Satan’s greatest victories has been the mythology of objective truth. Do you know that the root cause of crippling false guilt is the imagination that you have transgressed some objective standard? That you will have to deal with … Continue reading →

Posted in eldercraft | Tagged call to repentance, divine mercy, false guilt, law, mysticism, scripture, spirituality | 1 Comment

Paint Your Own Picture

Posted on January 10, 2015 by ehurst

Don’t ape the particulars; strive for the essence. You and I cannot be genuinely Hebraic, nor should we desire it. The context of that era is long gone in human experience. The people who bore it naturally threw it away … Continue reading →

Posted in eldercraft | Tagged ancient hebrew culture, ANE, civilization, culture, epistemology, history, human history, mysticism, scripture | 1 Comment

Restoring Divine Justice

Posted on January 9, 2015 by ehurst

A life worth living requires a vision bigger than yourself. God’s wrath is also God’s blessing. When the Lord brings His Presence to bear on a human situation, some will feel His wrath, some will feel His loving mercy, and … Continue reading →

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StT: Another Sample

Posted on January 8, 2015 by ehurst

All truth is God’s truth. Otherwise, it’s baloney. There’s an underlying principle at work when we study the Scripture here at Kiln of the Soul. We leave the door wide open for Our Father to decide how He will speak … Continue reading →

Posted in bible | Tagged ancient hebrew, epistemology, Jesus, messianic expectations, mysticism, scripture | 3 Comments

Compute Morally

Posted on January 7, 2015 by ehurst

Can the Law of Noah apply to computers? My wife has run Win7 on her desktop machine since it was released. It’s not that she never found any unwanted malware, but that it never affected the operation of her system. … Continue reading →

Posted in sanity | Tagged computers, divine mercy, law, moral imperatives, mysticism, protective software, technology, windows | 1 Comment

Treasury of Hearts

Posted on January 6, 2015 by ehurst

I tell you the solemn truth, the person who believes in me will perform the miraculous deeds that I am doing, and will perform greater deeds than these, because I am going to the Father. (John 14:12 NET) I spent … Continue reading →

Posted in eldercraft | Tagged Charismatics, epistemology, miracles of Jesus, mysticism, scripture, Western Christian mythology | 2 Comments

Spiritualizing the Text: Sample

Posted on January 5, 2015 by ehurst

I’m working back through the passages where the New Testament writers were guilty of “spiritualizing the text” of the Old Testament. That’s sarcasm; I reject the notion there is anything wrong with doing that. Yet the same people who assert … Continue reading →

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Torturing Scripture

Posted on January 1, 2015 by ehurst

“But what if some terrorist had your little daughter chained to a bomb…?” “Yes, what if. What if you decided to trust God for things you can’t and shouldn’t control instead of trying to control things for which you refuse … Continue reading →

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