Tag Archives: social sciences

Political Failure

God reigns and supports no existing political party; He simply uses human political activity to carry out His plans on earth. However, His Law Covenants make it clear that if you want Him to actually bless your political activity, you … Continue reading

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Divine Amplification

We can never accurately predict actual outcomes. I am acquainted with the Social Sciences and the reasons they exist. It’s an attempt to analyze human behavior at large and quantify what goes in and what comes out. There is a … Continue reading

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A Bit of Cultural Mythology

Brother Ed is a dirt-grubbing peasant. That’s my social background. Not blue-collar, but brown-collar, at best. Yes, I managed to get a really great education, because I went to college back in the days when state and federal government was … Continue reading

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Calm Down

This is your elder/pastor writing, the shepherd who loves you because God taught him how to love: You need to calm down. Okay, some of you need to calm down, or maybe you can try to help folks who aren’t … Continue reading

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Answering 02: Two Realms

How do you explain it? In my mind there remain a handful of people who seemed to understand. They were on their own path and knew it, so I offer not a word of criticism about their choices. Most of … Continue reading

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Cycling: The Giant Loop

On my second run at it, I took a clockwise route. Starting from home, I rolled west on Reno to the entrance of Eagle Lake. Once on the actual bike trail it runs along the North Canadian upstream toward the … Continue reading

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Refuse to Play 2

This should be short; for some of you it may even be sweet. I’ll try to avoid propaganda terms and stick with moral truth: Everything we discuss has to stand before God, which is the same as saying it has … Continue reading

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Pastoral: Fear Not WW3

If you read much news you’ve already heard mention of WW3 as a varying possibility — the possibility varies with who is saying what, and in what context. Most current chatter focuses on Russia and/or China versus NATO and friends. … Continue reading

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Clarity in the Context of Coming Tribulation

If your fundamental assumptions are materialistic, then it won’t matter what flavor your political, social and economic theories are, you will always get things fundamentally wrong. The image here (click to enlarge) was derived from a typical college course on … Continue reading

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No Template

It’s a miracle. Nothing else can explain it. Did it require our planning and labor, the results would kill us. We could use social sciences to examine some of this, but human faculties cannot understand more than some of the … Continue reading

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