Tag Archives: spirituality

Exercising the Heart

Posted on December 22, 2014 by ehurst

Perhaps it’s not so hard for you, but some of us will need some extra time and effort regaining our connection to the sensory heart. It may also be a matter of learning to engage your heart in areas of … Continue reading →

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Moral Down Payment

Posted on December 19, 2014 by ehurst

Do you suppose the grass sang when His resurrected feet trod the ground of the garden where He had been buried? Given the recent months of teaching here, consider again what Paul says about Creation and the Fall: For the … Continue reading →

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The Distaff Problem

Posted on December 16, 2014 by ehurst

The key to reclaiming biblical manhood lies first in teaching your mind to obey your heart, and developing a genuine masculine tenderness and empathy. Women have their own kind of empathy. You would expect some overlap in effects, but the … Continue reading →

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Quantum Empathy

Posted on December 15, 2014 by ehurst

This is just a side note, not part of the current series on sexual identity. Recall that the term “quantum” refers to the smallest possible increment of something. In science and technology it refers to working on things at the … Continue reading →

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Empathy’s Sweet Power

Posted on December 15, 2014 by ehurst

Having a masculine tenderness and empathy won’t keep you from lopping off a few heads, but it will teach you to approach the dirty task with greater moral justice. Popular images of Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) justice are rife with … Continue reading →

Posted in eldercraft | Tagged ANE, civilization, empathy, King David, Law of Moses, love, moral justice, psychology, scripture, spirituality | 2 Comments

The Long Road of Tenderness Recovered

Posted on December 14, 2014 by ehurst

One of the deepest perversions of Germanic mythology feeding into our modern Western culture is the destruction of masculine tenderness. Men are wired for tenderness. We have no trouble understanding that David and Jonathan were buddies, but our entire cultural … Continue reading →

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Hectic Cathexis

Posted on December 9, 2014 by ehurst

Cathexis is a big fat liar. In the study of human behavior, cathexis refers to the tendency to fall in love in the worst sense. Most of us wander through life with an appetite for certain things, a sense of … Continue reading →

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Just Thinking — Or Not

Posted on December 7, 2014 by ehurst

This is your chance to get to know me a little better. I share what follows as a consequence of my divine calling, but this is not central to my message. While there are prophetic elements, I’ll note carefully when … Continue reading →

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Confusing the Two

Posted on December 5, 2014 by ehurst

The underlying mythology of our age is rabid materialism married to a grouchy Norse god. This god’s moods range between cold indifference and implacable rage, smiling only when he has played some heartless cruel trick on someone. We think of … Continue reading →

Posted in eldercraft | Tagged ANE, biblical morality, civilization, consequences, culture, justice, law, mysticism, scripture, spiritual awakening, spirituality | 9 Comments

Growing Pains

Posted on December 4, 2014 by ehurst

Over the pasts few weeks I’ve hit hard on fundamentals. It’s one thing to tell you how humanity has gotten some wrong ideas, but it’s another thing altogether to chase out how those ideas bring us into a wholly different … Continue reading →

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