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Faith and Pedophiles

Posted on March 18, 2019 by ehurst

What happens when a pedophile becomes a heart-led servant of Christ? If you go by the experience of mainstream American Christianity, you don’t have a clue. The mainstream churches have no plan for dealing with moral and spiritual recovery of … Continue reading →

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Understanding Spiritual Gifts 03

Posted on February 22, 2019 by ehurst

2. Motivations (Romans 12:3-17) This is another open list, but we can’t discern any additions until we understand well enough what Paul delineates here. The list of temperaments could be translated as prophetic, servant, teacher, encourager, giver, elder, and caregiver. … Continue reading →

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Understanding Spiritual Gifts 01

Posted on February 20, 2019 by ehurst

I’m not sure where this teaching arose, but I first encountered it in the mid-1980s while testing the waters with a charismatic church. The experimental church fell apart, but I learned an awful lot about the mythology of neo-pentecostalism. If … Continue reading →

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Pastoral Psychology and the Heart 04

Posted on December 30, 2018 by ehurst

Moral truth was firmly established before Creation. The fatal flaw in choosing the Forbidden Fruit is that the human intellect is utterly incapable of being objective. Reason leading to objective truth is just a myth. Inevitably the traffic feeding into … Continue reading →

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Pastoral Psychology and the Heart 03

Posted on December 29, 2018 by ehurst

Making a deity of any part of yourself is a poor substitute for reaching out to eternity. Some of you may have heard of B.F. Skinner and his theory that human personality is nothing more than the net result of … Continue reading →

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Pastoral Psychology and the Heart 01

Posted on December 27, 2018 by ehurst

Radix Fidem is the name of our covenant and our religion. As long as I’m alive, this will never be formalized into a government approved tax-free denomination. You are a member if you think you are and you try to … Continue reading →

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Only If You Tell Me

Posted on December 11, 2018 by ehurst

A critical element in pastoral counseling is helping people accept who they are and what they are made of, and to stop trying to change things that don’t need changing. It’s an art, a moral art form that yields precious … Continue reading →

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The Human Need to Give

Posted on December 7, 2018 by ehurst

There is a sense in which this can’t be explained, but it surely needs to be declared: Every human desperately needs to sacrifice for others. I’m not talking about our need for others to love us; that’s real but it’s … Continue reading →

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Neutral on Jordan Peterson

Posted on December 6, 2018 by ehurst

This is not aimed at anyone in particular; I’ve had a few hints and questions from several readers. You don’t need me to tell you what to think about people like Jordan Peterson. All I can do is tell that … Continue reading →

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Present versus Future Orientation

Posted on October 30, 2018 by ehurst

Live in the moment. I’ve read excerpts from court cases where judges have ruled that the only proper orientation is a future-oriented outlook. Some have flatly said that living in the moment is barbaric. If you aren’t working for tomorrow, … Continue reading →

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