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Do Your Homework Series: Fitch, Foucault, Rhor & Zahnd (And No, That is Not a Law Firm…)

March 15, 2024
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Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Do Your Homework Series, Linguistics and Language Series, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

This piece will be in several sections and includes some of my explorations this past week and what I’ve been learning. Basically, I’m going to link information and commentary for those who deeply care about remaining in the arena of sound, biblical doctrine and avoiding associations and “discipleship/conversionship” by modern-day heretics and those in the Church bent on promoting a variety of deconstructionist ideas (of both a soteriological and political nature). I want to start by recommending the following talk...

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He Sustains Me With Raisins

March 3, 2024
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Personal Writings, Writings

I was feeling pretty discouraged in various ways when I went to bed last night. Partly situational, but a good deal of it was simply being absolutely saturated with listening to all kinds of podcasts and news updates this past week and yesterday, especially. I had over three hours of road time yesterday listening to this stuff, and then last night as I painted, I listened to more. It’s discouraging for a number of reasons. I awoke this morning gearing...

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The Fire is Your Friend

February 25, 2024
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Personal Writings, Writings

One of my FB friends shared something I read tonight and I thought I’d start off with a re-telling of the story he shared. He’s a DJ, and he told the sad story of showing up early for a booked 70th birthday party and no one was at the venue nor was anything set up for the event. He called the client and learned that the person of honor had suddenly passed away a week ago, and everyone was at...

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Book Review: “Reckoning With Power” by David Fitch

February 24, 2024
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Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Linguistics and Language Series, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

Fitch begins the introduction to his heretical work with two basically-flawed premises that there are “only two types of power in the world” and that “God’s power is never coercive.” “I hope you will put up with me in a little foolishness. Yes, please put up with me! I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. But I am afraid that just as Eve was...

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An Undivided Heart

February 14, 2024
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Personal Writings, Writings

Today marks another Valentine’s Day where I (and many others) find themselves in some condition of aloneness in this life–even those who are married may ultimately exist in this state of being for any number of reasons. Today also marks the beginning of Lent–Ash Wednesday. I like the idea of taking something up during Lent rather than giving something up. As I prepared for sleep last night, I thought that perhaps during this Lenten season I should daily take up...

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Guest Writing: A Christmas Memory, by Lucy S. Moise

January 25, 2024
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Guest Writings, Writings

I think I was about seventeen years old. Christmas Eve had finally come. The choir at our church had worked very hard on our Christmas music and I felt like I was ready. When the Midnight Mass Service was over, I felt extra good about myself. I had been in the church choir for several years already, but this time I felt more grown up. I felt like I had contributed my voice to bless others, and felt like I...

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“I Am He”: Hundreds Fell Back Before His Singular Pronoun (Part II)

December 18, 2023
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

By night and during the time of preparation for the Passover, Judas personally escorted some officials from the chief priests and Pharisees, along with a detachment of hundreds of armed, Roman soldiers, to the Garden of Gethsemane with the intent of arresting Jesus. Like a Lamb being led to slaughter, He fully cooperated with the beginning of the process of his death by crucifixion. Now Judas, who betrayed him, knew the place, (What is the Garden of Gethsemane and Why...

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The “Great Reset” of the Historic Christian Church and the Linguistics of Getting the Church “To Board” This Flight

October 3, 2023
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Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Linguistics and Language Series, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

In 1971, political-leaning John Lennon wrote a song that has a terribly beautiful feel and melody, and that has since moved people (musically and/or ideologically) of many spiritual/political leanings, seemingly transcending the actual linguistics of his imagined world. “Imagine there’s no heavenIt’s easy if you tryNo hell below usAbove us, only skyImagine all the peopleLivin’ for todayAhImagine there’s no countriesIt isn’t hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion, tooImagine all the peopleLivin’ life in peaceYouYou may say...

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Today is the Day I’m Going to End This

September 14, 2023
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Dreams, Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

If you honestly believed you were under a generational family curse–an actual pronounced or written, intentional curse–what would you do to put an end to it? As Christians, we claim to believe in the supernatural realm. Our very faith rests on a confession of belief that Jesus Christ of Nazareth suffered in the spiritual realms to reconcile us to God. We confess belief that the physical, manifested symbol of that spiritual work was evidenced in His bodily resurrection, and that...

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Hand-Written Invitations (to LIFE, or to Sin, Immorality and Death?)

August 21, 2023
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

“What is the end of all of this ‘STUFF’?” — I ask myself. It seems almost every morning of every day as I awake (in the traditional sense of becoming aWOKEned with my coffee and such)–when I briefly browse Facebook–I see memes and statements that seem to be inviting others to “something” that are being written in a new Christianese. Welcome to the “brave, new world” that is slowly infiltrating the Church of which Jesus-followers must now navigate. But first,...

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Eileen Slifer

I am a visual artist who works in a variety of mediums - producing fine art, illustration and design commissions/products for clients. I have been creating since childhood and sharing my giftings for hire since 1989. I also love to write and have been expressing in this way for a number of years in private poems, stories and journals that have been shared with treasured friends or publicly. Thank you for visiting my blog. I value the time and interest you spend on my expressions, and I read every comment.

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