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Photo Log 1: Biking SE OK County

Posted on June 2, 2015 by ehurst

Background: Oklahoma was surveyed in a square-mile grid. From what I understand, the surveyors simply cut a straight line path between corners, and locals kept using that path they cut, which eventually saw improvements in some places. So most of … Continue reading →

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Blackberry Day 2015

Posted on June 1, 2015 by ehurst

If you live east of the Rockies, you have seen plenty of rain and maybe some snow this spring. If you live anywhere near Oklahoma, or followed the news, you know we’ve had an endless supply of storms and tornadoes. … Continue reading →

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The Vacation Continues

Posted on May 6, 2015 by ehurst

Back when I was first sent to my assigned military duty station in the Netherlands, I spent a week shadowing my supervisor. He and another sergeant were chatting about taking in a volksmarch later that day. The other fellow said, … Continue reading →

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Heart of the Mission

Posted on April 21, 2015 by ehurst

Heart-led living is not the mission, but the means to it. Whole civilizations rose and fell under the fundamental assumptions of heart-led living and paid little heed to our Creator. Rather, heart-led living is a basic necessity of living itself. … Continue reading →

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Heart of Faith: Chapter 11

Posted on April 15, 2015 by ehurst

Chapter 11 — Testing, Testing I propose a test. Teaching the mind to follow the leadership of the heart takes time, for those who have never tried it. The full flower is when a firmly held intellectual belief is trumped … Continue reading →

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Heart of Faith: Chapter 7

Posted on April 11, 2015 by ehurst

Christine has asked me to share her story second hand. She’s a marvelous writer but the timing of this book caught her tied up with a lot of her own moral responsibilities. What makes her story important for us is … Continue reading →

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Heart of Faith: Chapter 4

Posted on April 8, 2015 by ehurst

Chapter 4 — How Will I Know? Our biggest problem is that we have nearly two thousand years of Christian history ignoring this critical aspect of human nature. More, the secular society at large is hostile to the whole concept … Continue reading →

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BLDJ: Chapter 7

Posted on March 20, 2015 by ehurst

(Serializing here the draft of my book, Biblical Law: Divine Justice.) 7. Hostile World We live in a world that is hostile to divine justice. We are not surprised that Paul warns the Roman Christians of his day that all … Continue reading →

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BLDJ: Chapter 4

Posted on March 17, 2015 by ehurst

In essence, the Law of Noah is hard-wired into human nature. That is, the Law of Noah reflects what God revealed as the best way to live after the Fall. It would prevent the necessity of another global destruction of … Continue reading →

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Transience

Posted on March 9, 2015 by ehurst

A measure of uncertainty is our certitude. Recall that fundamental to the Fall was human presumption on divine prerogative. Creation remains in a variable state; it is in one sense nothing more than the contextual extension of God’s imagination. It … Continue reading →

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