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In Praise of Folly is deserving of a place on any believer‘s reading list. It’s somewhat surprising to me that Erasmus was able to get away with his satire. He burned down the house without burning down the house, and without paying for it with his life. I’m currently reading The Testaments of...

“When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.” - George Burns

“What is the mariner without his compass? What is the Christian without the Bible?“ - Charles Spurgeon

X. X marks the spot. The spot of what? Something lost, and that saddens me a little. Was it something important? Was it something insignificant? A “dead soldier thought“. Something lost to posterity. I got in the habit of writing down events and thoughts - some spectacular, some mundane - on a...

A near death experience isn’t a death experience. The dead know nothing at all. A brain in the process of being deprived of oxygen will, apparently, imagine many things. That doesn’t mean that what it imagines is true, but neither does it mean that what it imagines is satanic. What scripture...

My advice -> don’t do it. Fictionalizing “the real deal” requires speculation and speculation, even if well-intentioned (which is what I think your project is), can easily direct people down the wrong path.

Atheists are potential believers in response to hearing the gospel. Some have, more will. It’s not possible to know in advance who will and who won’t. I’ve wasted my time with many people but I’ve never considered it a waste of my time to present the gospel to anyone.

As fate would have it, I just finished drinking a glass of chocolate milk. Milk good. Chocolate milk was good. I‘m good with it. Romans 14:23.

It’s the premise that strikes me as being strange. Perhaps that was intentional. No one who truly accepts the king rejects the kingdom established by the king.

Speaking as someone who identifies as a disciple of the Messiah, I’ve never been concerned about anyone putting a curse on me. Their words have no power over me. I don’t fear them. Father, keep me from the evil one. That suffices for me.