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Rehab for Fallen Leadership?

Let’s step away from the Heiser passenger train just a bit. We need to get away from the tightly controlled route to cover something he could not and would not have touched. Over and over again, the foundation for our … Continue reading

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Cast Out Your Own Demons

Biblical feudalism is highly decentralized on the human side of things. There can be no centralized human authority on this earth for a spiritual kingdom. Christ alone is the Lord of His people. He appointed messengers, not rulers over His … Continue reading

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Children of Law

Let’s talk about child-rearing. Writing a curriculum would be antithetical to the very nature of Christian Mysticism. The whole point is to offer an example that would help you make up your own mind. We lead by example from the … Continue reading

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The Days of Noah

Let’s review the Three Rebellions: The Fall in the Garden, the descent of the Watchers, and the rise of idolatry after the Tower of Babel. The Fall brought mortality; that’s what the Fall and the symbol of Adam is all … Continue reading

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A Spiritual Free-fire Zone

As I’ve said before, Americans have a persistent problem with binary logic. It’s the go-to assumption everyone makes about anything they don’t really understand. While Americans are capable of gradations, levels and nuance, they don’t go there until forced into … Continue reading

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Cancerous Spite

Kiln of the Soul parish is a covenant community. The Covenant of Christ is everything, and we assert that you cannot fully grasp the Covenant without embracing a Hebraic mental approach. It’s not enough to simply be aware of Christ’s … Continue reading

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His Sacrificial Love

Two problems — (1) It’s one thing to recognize the utility of simple observation and analysis. It’s another thing to imagine that your analysis answers all the pertinent questions. (2) The miracles of faith are extraordinary, and yet should be … Continue reading

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Wolf and Shepherd

The quintessential man of God is the shepherd. If you see yourself as the lone wolf, then you are not serving God. You are simply a predator totally wrapped up in this world’s ways. You will receive only a wolf’s … Continue reading

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Partisan Church Politics

I confess that I belong to a partisan movement within Church History. I’ve shared this on the forum. I promote the shepherd image of church leadership, and the relative independence of lay people. The flock is the whole point. What … Continue reading

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Leaving the Herd 05

We need to make some distinctions before I end this series. The individualism of the West is a very poor match for biblical self-reliance. The former arises from the challenge of survival that became an inherited trait of in the … Continue reading

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