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Leaving Yourself Open to Manipulation
The guidance of Scripture is not that hard to fathom. The real question is whether you believe strongly enough to obey it. I’ve said it often enough: The issue is not success in the real world. The issue is making … Continue reading
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Tagged decentralization, dependence, gatekeepers, health, peace with god, politics, survival
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Why God’s Wrath Is Falling
Christian Mysticism isn’t a collection of principles. Discussing it is a matter of offering counter-principles to false ideas; Christian Mysticism itself transcends principles, but offers some very pragmatic guidance. So the counter-principles we have so far: We are fallen creatures; … Continue reading
The Mortality Filter
The hardest thing you’ll ever do is rewrite all the mental programming that demands you try to save this life and this world. Try to process: This world is damned and God will not permit it be saved. He wants … Continue reading
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Tagged Creator, divine revelation, heart-led, mortality, peace with god, religion, shalom, spiritual birth
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Meet the Context
There’s no way we can tell the secular world that death is not a tragedy. Leaving this world means going to be with God, on whatever terms we have worked out with Him while we were here. It’s pretty sad … Continue reading
The Philosophical Question of Violence
Violence is part of our fallen nature. If the world were more inclined to seek God’s favor and learn His revelation of how to live in a fallen state, there would still be violence. It cannot be quantified; there’s just … Continue reading
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Tagged Biblical Law, mortality, peace with god, scripture, secular state, violence, war
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Legalistic Reading
Have you noticed the tendency of many Western Christians to read Scripture legalistically? They get it from the Pharisees. Their mind approaches the Word with a legal frame of reference, looking for loopholes and ignoring the wider context of the … Continue reading
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Tagged healing, Jesus Cleansing the Temple, miracles of Jesus, peace with god
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Radix Fidem Curriculum: Norming
7. Norming The norm is not this world. The norm is walking the path back toward Eden. The norm is still through Biblical Law, but in Christ we are granted self-death and faith before we start the long journey. That … Continue reading
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Tagged Biblical Law, divine justice, heart-led, peace with god, spirit realm
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Divine Expectations
This is Christian Mysticism. There is a very strong reason I play loosey-goosey with theology: Your brain cannot contain divine truth. God does not work in the brain in that sense; He works only in the heart. You convictions, written … Continue reading
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Tagged communion, fellowship, heart-led, holiness, human differences, human intellect, moral character, peace with god
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Hands Tied by God
First and foremost: We follow Christ alone. Without any apology, we serve Him at whatever cost to our comfort, convenience, or even our lives. Furthermore, we assert that most Westerners have no clue who He is, nor who He was … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient hebrew culture, Biblical Law, human reason, Jesus Christ, peace with god, shalom, western biases
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The Identity of Escape
We live under the Curse of the Fall. For all our efforts, there is absolutely nothing we can do from here to get out, except to die. Meanwhile, we live with the misery of having no purpose, and most people … Continue reading
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Tagged Biblical Mysticism, communion, fellowship, Garden of Eden, heart-led, human capabilities, peace with god, shalom
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