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The Sabbath, Holiness, and Righteousness By Faith
I’ll begin with a quote… “No other institution which was committed to the Jews tended so fully to distinguish them from surrounding nations as did the Sabbath. God designed that its observance should designate them as His worshipers. It was to be a token of their separation from idolatry, and their connection with the true Continue reading
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The Jewish Witness of Jesus As The Messiah
The New Testament writers, all of them Jews by birth, gave convincing evidence from their Scriptures that Jesus, and only Jesus, was the promised Messiah. They were Jews. Jesus was a Jew. The Scriptures came through the Jews, God’s elected covenant people. “…to them were committed the oracles of God.” Romans 3.2 “The Deliverer will Continue reading
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Another Essential Passage
Few passages, if any, have done more to shape my understanding of righteousness by faith, of Christ our righteousness. This passage is from a larger chapter commenting on the story Jesus told of two worshipers, the Pharisee and the Publican in the Gospel of Luke. I’ll offer the Bible text and follow with the passage Continue reading
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How Do I Know?
How do I know I’ve been “born from above”, born again, of the Spirit and not merely the flesh? I like the way Ellen White put it in her book, Steps to Christ. “ Like the wind, which is invisible, yet the effects of which are plainly seen and felt, is the Spirit of God Continue reading
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Complex Trauma: Dr. Diane Langberg Video
I first read Diane Langberg’s, “On the Threshold of Hope”, around 2006. It was hard to read. Trauma is contagious. I was a pastor in Newport, Wales. A young black woman from the Caribbean who had outstayed her visa in England came to me for counseling. She and her two sisters were sexually abused by Continue reading
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Blog (life) Update
I continue to write in my journal. I still think of myself as a writer, not by profession though I’ve published a few times over the years, but more as a part of who I am. I have to write. It can be very hard, but I like it. I need it. I do it, Continue reading
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Recorded yesterday, this is a full message, 30 minutes, in the form of a personal testimony of my experience with the love of God in Christ. I briefly talk about my addictions and multiple marriages, the nature of my fall, briefly of my childhood to the present, and how the love of God heals my Continue reading
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From My Reading This Morning
Something on having sympathy for each other with our inevitable imperfections… “If we keep uppermost in our minds the unkind and unjust acts of others, we shall find it impossible to love them as Christ has loved us; for there are few persons who do not on close acquaintance reveal unamiable traits of character. Even Continue reading
About Me
A Christian, thinking, vlogging, and writing online. I live elsewhere as well. I follow the theology of the cross in the faith and practice of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Formerly a pastor in Europe and America, now living semi-retired in Kentucky (U.S.), driving for the Amish and in-home carer.
Crucified Hearts 