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Waiting Is Work
If I knew what it was, I’d probably mess things up. I’m waiting. I don’t know what for, but I’m waiting. Whatever it is hasn’t come yet. The biblical concept of time is ripeness. The proper attitude is that there … Continue reading
Ecclesiastes 3
What can we know from the human level? In Hebrew, context is everything. Thus, it is common sense to folks in Solomon’s time, but was included by God’s design. No one should strive to be the same in call contexts, … Continue reading
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Tagged hebrew culture, human wisdom, intellect, mysticism, reason, scripture, spirituality
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Kindness Needs No Reason
Reason gets in the way of a lot of godly things. Kindness is a command. It is a motivation unto itself in the sense it seeks no particular outcome. If we tie things to outcome, we fail God completely. Seeking … Continue reading
Posted in prophecy
Tagged divine justice, mysticism, peace, psychology, scripture, spirituality
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Emotional Devotions
The hardest thing for a Western Christian is separating emotion from Spirit. My single strongest accusation of fraud against the modern Charismatic movement is their vociferous, almost hateful insistence that their emotional manipulation is the hand of God. No, you … Continue reading
Posted in sanity
Tagged emotional manipulation, epistemology, move of the spirit, mysticism, scripture, spirituality, western epistemology
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Mythical Military
As you may know, the heroic image is baloney. I went through Army Basic Training twice. On top of that, I spent several years working in a whole division of drill sergeants. It was an Army Reserve unit. The entire … Continue reading
Posted in personal, social sciences
Tagged government, military, propaganda, psychology, spirituality
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A Theology of Theology
theology: the study of God and of the nature of religious truth; a school of thought arising from such study; an organized course of study within the academic field of religion There is no theology in the Bible. There entire … Continue reading
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Tagged aristotelian epistemology, aristotelian logic, epistemology, intellect, reason, religion, scripture, spirituality, system of logic
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Mythology of Self-control
Nothing is more comical than someone singing the praises of Western Civilization, when they evaluate it wholly from within Western values. Who would be surprised that Western Civilization is good at giving us what Western Civilization wants in the first … Continue reading
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Tagged civilization, culture, mysticism, scripture, spirit realm, spirituality, western civilization
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Spiritual Introversion
Humanity is both highly varied and generally predictable. So while you could propose something like the MBT Personality Inventory, it will only go so far, utterly failing to set forth the truly critical issues of human nature. That’s because the … Continue reading
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Tagged mysticism, psychology, spirituality
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Mass Produced Creativity
Think about it. We are passing through a rare economic shift, says Charles Hugh Smith. He summarizes Peter Drucker’s Post-Capitalist Society. Taking his thesis, you suddenly realize that we no longer need mass capital to advance technology and production of … Continue reading
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Tagged economics, internet, mysticism, science, social sciences, spirituality, technology
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Organic Life of a Church
Churches aren’t built; they grow. organic — having properties characteristic of living organisms; constitutional in the structure of something, the nature of the thing One of the most evil trends in modern church life has been convincing churches that they … Continue reading