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17 Jul 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.09
"Sin is the missing link."Pablo Smog There is a silver lining to all this madness. Every time something unbelievable happens, it is an opportunity to see the world as it really is. Not a treasure trove of light and shallow virtue, in which powerf...
11 Jul 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.05
“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...
8 Jul 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.13
"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...
8 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark $0.11
"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...
6 Jul 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor $0.31
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...
1 Jul 2023 17 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.03
“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...
29 Jun 2023 2 minute read 2 comments Allen Taylor $0.52
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...
24 Jun 2023 2 minute read 0 comments CodyMac50 $0.13
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...
22 Jun 2023 7 minute read 21 comments Allen Taylor $0.34
I find Proverbs 13:17 to be both troubling and encouraging. It's a fitting pearl of wisdom for our absurdly awkward time. Many proverbs, we've found, make a comparison between wicked people and the righteous. Here, we find the comparison to be betwee...
18 Jun 2023 12 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.08
1. The Museum Glass of Heaven I went to Juárez, Mexico with a church group in January of 1994. We were there to build a house. By "house" I mean concrete structure that may or may not have had any holes in the floor or walls for plumbing and elect...
