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The Centrality of Christ
The centrality of Christ–born of a woman, lived among us, crucified, and resurrected from the dead to sit at the right hand of God, coming a second time for the full redemption of humanity– is in God’s plan of salvation the most essential truth, the most essential reality, that gives meaning to all created things, Continue reading
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Living As A Christian With Mental Illness: Dysthymia / PDD
A little bit about my mental illness and how I live with it as a Christian. The video is on my YouTube channel, Voices in the Garden. Continue reading
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From Today’s Personal Journal
I write my daily journal in Obsidian. Here is the beginning of today’s entry. (I highly recommend Obsidian as a second brain.) 12:10 Thinking about sermon and children’s story for tomorrow. Thinking means I am working through what I might say. The pastor sent me a text aasking for a title for a Continue reading
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Christian Morality and the Righteousness of Christ
Christian morality is rooted in the character of God as revealed in Christ. It is not an achievement by which we are considered righteous, rather, it is the fruit that is born by those who are already righteous through faith in the blood of Christ. To act right we must first be right with God. Continue reading
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Heart Matters
“What the heart loves, the will chooses and the mind justifies.” ~ Ashley Null, in Thomas Cranmer’s Doctrine of Repentance: Renewing the Power to Love Therefor, we cannot follow the natural heart, but what God has revealed in his word. Since… “The heart is more deceitful than all elseAnd is desperately sick;Who can understand it?“I, Continue reading
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Perfection: What did Jesus mean when He commanded us to be “perfect”?
We know from the context of this passage that Jesus was speaking of the perfection of love in the character, such a love that embraces even one’s enemies, just as God does with us. Such is what it means to be like our heavenly Father, who so loved the world that he gave his only Continue reading
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The Asbury Revival: Is this how the Holy Spirit works?
For over 2 weeks, there is a “revival” at Asbury University and Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. Day-and-night, the chapel has been open and filled for singing, praying, and just hanging out. Continual, repetitive phrases are sung, mantra like, united with clapping, shouts of “praise,” swaying bodies, and not a little jumping up and down. Some Continue reading
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He Fed Them By The Lake
Here is a freshly recorded impromptu video from Cedar Creek Lake near Crab Orchard, Kentucky. It is a little bit of catching up but primarily a spiritual lesson from the Gospel of John, chapter 6. It is a blessing to offer it to you and I hope it is a blessing for you to hear. 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.
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