Exodus 3:9 is a strange verse. Where was God, those 400 years that “finally” he heard, finally he saw? Was he busy on the other end of the universe—perhaps evidence that we are not alone, not so very special? Evidence that God needed 400 years to take care of some...
Market, Money, Time and Faith Porn Fiction
I am in the process of writing a very fun sci-fi suspense trilogy. I call it Pogland. Fun and challenging and time-consuming (which is why I've been off of social media). If you know me, you know I have some strong views on the role theology needs to play in fiction....
Worldling
"It is the folly of most men, to mind and pursue that which is for the body and for time only, more than that for the soul and eternity." Matthew Henry Luke 12:13-21 Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with...
You Are What You Do
SEPARATING SHEEP FROM GOATS Separation filters are things in this life that prove what you are. They are tests, opportunities, situations, scenarios that require you to take a step one way or another. The step you take shows what you are. In Biblical Hebrew there is...
Jonathan Edwards on Pleasure
Jonathan Edwards: If we spend our lives in the pursuit of a temporal happiness; as riches or sensual pleasures; credit and esteem from men; delight in our children, and the prospect of seeing them well brought up, and well settled, and etc. All these things will be of...
The Secret Filter of Suffering
Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness,...
Isaiah 66, in Depth
The Principles of the Prophets are the themes of the Bible. Isaiah 66, Verse by Verse In this study we will go verse by verse, as opposed to an overview by color, which we did here. If you are not yet aware of the colors of the Principles of the Prophets, take a look...
Isaiah 66 reveals Principles of the Prophets
It was in Isaiah that I first noted the repeated themes I've been showing here on my blog. The message God burdened Isaiah with was the same one every other prophet spoke, and the same message given by Christ and his apostles. The Principles of the Prophets are the...