Pause, and calmly think on that.
This is going to get uncomfortable. There are existential ramifications coming into the fullness of the New Covenant. Speaking to Jewish converts, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free,” (John 8:31). These Jewish converts were still struggling to let go of the idea that they needed the Old Covenant Law to live rightly before God.
I see a time coming when most, even Christians, will lose confidence in our ability to make sense of Christian morality in the ways that we have done so up until now. We find ourselves in a position where we want to defend Christianity, again, but we have lost confidence in in our ability to justify it. This, I see, is the challenge for the next era of Christianity. It is a challenge to which I believe I can offer a vision for a path forward.
As outside observers, who are of different cultures than either of the parties in conflict, it is admittedly difficult to know how we should respond. Israel is justified in wanting to eliminate Hamas while Gazans are caught in-between and are justified in wanting peace and protection. How, then, should a Christian respond? This is my attempt at looking at the conflict through the lens of the principles of the New Covenant.
This is a cheatsheet of notes I’ve been taking and practicing in my own fitness journey. My goals are not to get jacked but to be generally fit and capable, lose weight, decrease overly high BMI, and reduce body fat percentage. Here’s what’s been of help to me on this journey.
The Great Commandment, The Great Commission, and The Great Mercy. I have identified these three principles and have discussed their value as a way to know what is right but I have never said, precisely how. I will attempt to remedy that somewhat, here.
Universal patterns are descriptions of reality as such and how reality and being play out fractally at every level. Their value is not just in showing us how reality plays out but in showing which patterns produce optimal results. In this way, universal patterns are something like vectors in mathematics in that they can be…
Grim was the world, and grey last night. All ways and paths were wild…
A small Christmas tale deep in the winterwoods where a little pixie named Nim embarks on a journey to a human settlement. Also known as Nim’s Vintersaga or Nim’s Winter Journey, this is a high quality QHD 1440p 60fps OBS capture for posterity from a source that appears to have captured the original high quality…
The Psalms are talked about as some of the great poetry of English literature and yet I have always wondered if something was lost in translation. Were we hearing what the original hearers were hearing? So, I asked ChatGPT to help English speakers hear it in a new way. Here are those results. Psalm 121…
If God told you to kill a baby, would you? What kind of a question is that? Good question. The following is a re-post of a Twitter exchange of someone trying a ‘gotcha’ moment on a pro life post. The idea would be to catch someone in a trap if they are pro life yet support the death of children as commanded by God and recorded in the Bible.