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Mountain of Hearts
It was beautiful weather today but I couldn’t go riding. I had to wait for some kind of periodic mass maintenance at our apartments today; they wanted someone home because there’s a bit of risk involved in using their pass … Continue reading
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Tagged heart-led, Matthew's Gospel, scripture
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Psalm 117
Some people find significance in the observation that this is the middle chapter in the entire Protestant canon, and also the shortest chapter. In a few manuscripts it is considered part of either the previous or succeeding psalms, but there … Continue reading
Psalm 114
This is the second of the “Hallel Psalms” sung before the Passover meal. In Hebrew, this is the lyrical equivalent of a powerful appetizer — it is very small and simple, yet dense in satisfying flavor. These few brief words … Continue reading
Reviewing Darkness 04
On the one hand, we recognize that the typical Western Christian image of demons is comical, and tragically misguided. The popular mythology of “spiritual warfare” is a big joke to Satan. It’s another distraction that keeps folks from paying attention … Continue reading
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Tagged christian mysticism, parable, Satan, scripture
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Reviewing Darkness 02
By now we should understand that the term “demon possession” conjures a wholly bogus image of how things actually work. The question is not binary; all of us suffer some demonic presence in our lives to varying degrees. There is … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, Creation, culture, heart-mind, intellect, psychology, Satan, scripture
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Reviewing Darkness 01
Let’s take a fresh look at the Dark Side, shall we? Take a moment to refocus your awareness in your heart-mind. Get a good grip on the moral anchorage of your convictions, because we need to face some stormy truth. … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient civilizations, ANE, heart-mind, history, intellect, intellectual culture, Satan, scripture
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Gospel Missions
Sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. No matter where you touch the living truth, it always leads to other things. The Western tendency to make thinking discrete and linear, with binary logic, is a major hurdle to overcome … Continue reading
My Father’s World, Part 6
We must live in the Land Without Words. In our English translations of the Bible, we have this expression: “someone’s word.” It shows up in our phrase, “the Word of God.” Our culture offers no good translation of the Hebrew … Continue reading
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Tagged epistemology, heart-mind, mysticism, philosophy, propaganda, prophecy, scripture, spirituality, western civilization
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My Father’s World, Part 4
In the moral realm, the supernatural is natural; the paranormal is normal. Creation is loaded with manifestations of God’s glory and power. Why stop with spooky stuff? Human existence is filled with things that man’s intellect could never understand. If … Continue reading
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Tagged heart-mind, New Testament, scripture
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My Father’s World, Part 1
When we read the Bible, we are facing two layers of false mythology. The first is the underlying bias of the translators. In the US, our religious culture is largely the product of the Anglo-Saxon biases behind the King James … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, epistemology, mysticism, peace, propaganda, scripture, superstition, western biases
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