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The Tragedy of Artificial Holiness

11 Jul 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

“He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.”Matthew 10:39   While I'm on the topic of dying to self, of initiating divorce proceedings from the devil and hell, and not turning back, I'm going to pos...

Tell me the old, old story

11 Jul 2023 3 minute read 3 comments fisherofmen

18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. 19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20 Notwithstanding in this rejo...

Able To Be Horrored

8 Jul 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when he wrote of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it."William Blake   Was Lot's wife a songwriter?  Was she looking...

You're no Jesus Christ!

8 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal...

Dance, dance, wherever you may be

8 Jul 2023 3 minute read 1 comment fisherofmen

here we all are at first, were, perhaps may be, and can be: starting out seeing in the open, able to go anywhere at any speed with any volume of laughter and noise and dirt, and always able to go strip down and wash up in the river and be right as ne...

Proverbs: Why Desire Fulfilled is Like Candy to the Soul

6 Jul 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor

Proverbs 13:19 is a very simple aphorism. It contrasts the fulfillment of desire with turning from evil, an interesting comparison. At first glance, it might be taken to mean that happiness is life's highest purpose. I think that would be going too f...

It's a Gateway World

1 Jul 2023 17 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”Ephesians 4:29   I am in Mexico for every reason.  Good, bad, and everything in between.  Beautiful a...

Is It a Shame Not to Listen to Critics?

29 Jun 2023 2 minute read 2 comments Allen Taylor

Proverbs 13:18 is a difficult verse to reflect on, but for a different reason than many other verses may pose problems. It reads: Poverty and shame come to him who ignores discipline, but whoever heeds correction is honored. It seems simple, but th...

"I will love him, and will manifest myself to him."

26 Jun 2023 3 minute read 0 comments fisherofmen

The book of John is such an intimate account of the life of Jesus Christ, and I will forever be content to simply stand in any place, lonely or crowded, and pick up the book of John and begin reading from almost any point, and know that somebody's li...

The Unreasonable Belief That The 4 Gospels Were Written AFTER 70 A.D.

24 Jun 2023 2 minute read 0 comments CodyMac50

The theory that the Gospels in the bible were written AFTER 70 A.D. is an argument only to discredit the accounts, as well as beyond idiotic. Also, saying that Matthew, Luke, and John only copied and expanded on the gospel of Mark, the shortest gospe...