Elizabethprata

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• Bad Fruit is Bad

  

  Yesterday I wrote about the wind, meaning, the Spirit, blowing where it will. I wrote of how we can't see the wind at the time but we can see its effects. One o... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Wind Blows Where It Will

  

  I was years and years upon the brink of hell—I mean in my own feeling. I was unhappy, I was desponding, I was despairing. I dreamed of hell. My life was full... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Bible Word of the Day: Immanence

  

  Last week the word was Transcendence. God is apart from His creation, different from it. This week the word is Immanent or Immanence,God’s immanence refers to... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Prata's Place: Graceful Garlands 43: Final Father

  

  The title for my pithy sayings comes from Proverbs 1:8-9,Hear, my son, your father’s instruction,and forsake not your mother’s teaching,for they are a graceful... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• What's on My Nightstand- and Why

  

  My church family is a family of readers. That's good. I am a reader too. That means we are also talkers about books. We love to interact mindfully and... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Magnet Fun and Irresistible Grace

  

  First, the original intent of the video, to show science. Here is the original poster's comment:Nice slow-motion footage of smaller magnets engulfing larger... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• He Did This ... So He Could Do This

  

  Satan tempted Jesus with hunger. (Matthew 4:3)Satan tempted Jesus with suicide. (Matthew 4:6).Satan tempted Jesus with power. (Matthew 4:9).Satan tempted Jesus... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Mailbag: Do People Who Commit Suicide Go to Hell?

  

  Today's question was Do people who commit suicide go to hell?The query came on the heels of fashion designer and celebrity Kate Spade's suicide on June 5, 2018... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Prata's Place: Graceful Garlands 42: Sanctified Savings

  

  The title for my pithy sayings comes from Proverbs 1:8-9,Hear, my son, your father’s instruction,and forsake not your mother’s teaching,for they are a graceful... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Sunday Word of the Week 2: Transcendence

  

  A theological term referring to the relation of God to creation. God is "other," "different" from His creation. He is independent and different from His... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Christian Feminism Coming Home to Roost: Retrospective from 6 Years Ago

  

  Today in evangelical circles we are dealing with an unthinkable situation: serious discussions of the possibility of a female President of the Southern Baptist... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Lessons from Blind Bartimaeus – Keep Crying out

  This first was published on The End Time in October 2011. It's a lesson we need more than ever today, 8 years later and the world grows ever more hostile to... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• An Encouragement

  

  We see the collapse of denominations and the fluidity of gender, the perverted homosexual agenda and the perverted Christian agenda, the child nappings and the... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Stop It

  This essay was published in January 2011I listened to a great John MacArthur sermon that discussed how sin starts and what happens when we allow sin to... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• A Comment to the Snowflake Society

  

  I'm over the victim culture.Really over it.I don't doubt that there are real cases of abuse and intimidation and oppression out there. There always have been. Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Entangled in Sin

  

  Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Word of the Week

  

  We're losing the meaning of our uniquely Christian words.I listened to a Phil Johnson interview where he talked about being caught off guard this spring with th... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Act Your Age

  

  Our church has a healthy demographic of college kids. The other day I was watching an Instagram video story a young friend posted of a bunch of the youths in... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• I Deserved This

  

  I spent 42 years striding the earth, self-satisfied with my smartness and artful living. I was at enmity with Jesus, hating Him and loving self. I sinned, sinne... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• On Discontented Women

  

  I was destined for great things. My mother promised. Women can do anything. My mother said. We should be feminists. My mother urged. All in our family are... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY