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• 5 Indicators of an Evil Heart

  

  This past February I wrote a two part series on the problem with evil. The problem with evil is, its beauty. I'd written about how hard it is for us, even... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2017 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Billy Graham Waffles for Breakfast #2: Is AIDs a Judgment from God?

  

  Waffles for Breakfast #1: Billy Graham on the Nixon Tapes, remarking about the JewsThis series is a study on hypocrisy. Number 1 is above. The series is based o... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2017 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Billy Graham Waffles For Breakfast #1: The Jews

  

  This is a study on hypocrisy. Hypocrites deceive us so easily, sad to say. They deceive themselves, worse to say. Hypocrisy is poison for everyone... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2017 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Heaven is a Busy Place

  

  The busyness of Rome's Piazza del Popolo can't compareto the busyness of heavenHeaven is busy. I know you know this. But sometimes we let the invisible become... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2017 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Christ, The Sure and Steady Anchor

  

  Storm of the Century, March 1993. I was living on my sailboat, and I was in it. The arrow shows where.I was saved at age 42, and before that I traveled a lot. Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2017 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Discernment in Entertainment is Really Cultural Discernment, and We Need It

  

  We are told to be in the world but not of the world. What this means is we have to know the world if we're in it. Not love it. Not cater to it. Not compromise... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2017 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• God is Faithful to His Gospel

  

  The Great Tribulation is a time prophesied to occur in the future, where God will pour out His stored-up wrath on the unbelieving world, and onto Israel. Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2017 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Ever-present Peril of God's Wrath, Removed

  

  I mentioned the other day that I've started Professor Grant Horner's Bible Reading Plan. You read ten chapters a day from books in the OT and the NT. Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2017 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Kay Cude Poetry: No Condemnation for the Redeemed

  

  Kay Cude poetry. Used with permission Click to enlarge. Excerpted Artist's statement belowWe know this world is not our home; it is the residence of the... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2017 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• I Finally Found a Bible Reading Plan That Works for Me

  

  I've failed at every Bible reading plan I ever tried. I've tried The Chronological method. I've tried 'read the Bible in 90 days'. I've tried the audible,... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2017 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Is America 'called 2 Fall' on Our Faces as It Says in 2 Chronicles?

  

  Today, Sunday, July 2, a nationwide effort is underway to get people/churches to fall on their faces and pray in repentance and for God to heal America. Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2017 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• No Such Thing as a Carnal Christian

  

  What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. (Philippians 4:9).Paul balances four... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2017 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• What Lurks Within...

  We read in Job that-His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drin... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2017 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Wednesday Word: Three Thoughts and a Video

  

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Persisting in PrayerAre you praying for the lost? Do you have a burden for the lost? Do you live your life as a witness, a poem, a hymn, to... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2017 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Greatest Revival That Ever Will Be?

  

  Yesterday I looked at what true revival looks like. True revivals are far from the superficially but temporarily euphoric "revivals" we have sadly become used... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2017 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Prata's Place Graceful Garlands Will Be Weekly

  

  A few weeks ago, I started a new project called Prata's Place: Graceful Garlands. It was to test my ability to write devotionals, to write short, and to try... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2017 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• What Does a True Revival Look Like? Part 1

  

  We all want revival. We all want the Spirit of God to enter each one of us and make us obviously set apart into a royal priesthood, doing good and devoting... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2017 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Poetry by Kay Cude: In Trials We Are Not Alone

  

  Poetry by Kay Cude. Used with permission. Click to enlarge. Artist's statement belowArtist's Statement:Sometimes the trials we go through seem never-ending! Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2017 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Exposing Or Ignoring the Ignominious Blemish in Our Husbands

  

  Our pastor is going through Jonah. It's a great series. Naturally I got interested in reading Moby Dick, the Great American Novel, by Herman Melville. Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2017 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• All Beth Moore Critiques Here in One Place (Short Version)

  

  I have split the list of Beth Moore critiques into two different essays. There is a long version which includes a lengthy discernment lesson on top before you... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2017 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY