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2026-10-07T18:32:16-07:00

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Did Jesus Fear God’s Wrath in Gethsemane?

Last updated on: October 7, 2026 at 6:32 pm By Clark Elder Morrow

That Time Jesus Was Terrified Before we begin, let me say at once that I believe Jesus Christ was the bravest man who ever lived. I’m afraid the following remarks may lead some people to think I am casting blasphemous shade on the Redeemer of Humanity, when in fact my purpose is the exact opposite. Here, if you’ll accompany me, is my chain of reasoning. Proverbs 9:10 tells us that “Fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom”. Well... Read more

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2026-09-10T08:18:55-07:00

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Why Is There An Altar In Heaven?

Last updated on: September 10, 2026 at 8:18 am By Clark Elder Morrow

Presumably there are no bulls or sheep in Heaven to be slaughtered. I think we can safely assume that there are not, in fact, and never have been, animals of any kind in the immediate Realm of God, though a branch of the angelic beings is depicted as having certain bestial attributes. However much the seraphim or Four Living Creatures are painted as resembling oxen or eagles or lions, it must be concluded that they could never serve as sacrificial... Read more

2026-08-15T09:48:01-07:00

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Why Exodus 23:19b May Be the “Linchpin” of All Scripture

Last updated on: August 15, 2026 at 9:48 am By Clark Elder Morrow

Ten Words of Compassion “You shall not boil a kid in his mother’s milk.” Nowhere else in literature will you find so much heartfelt compassion, so much lovingkindness, so much heartbreaking pathos, or so much moral sensitivity, packed into ten simple words. In a world where other societies were literally burning their children in sacrificial flames, Moses was told, in effect, that it would be unendurably anguish-making to see a young goat boiled in the milk its mother had given... Read more

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2025-10-02T06:18:07-07:00

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Are the Dead in Christ Alive or Dead?

Last updated on: October 2, 2025 at 6:18 am By Clark Elder Morrow

Apparently there are two senses in which you exist after your body ceases to function: you are dead in the clinical sense, and you are alive in the spiritual sense. This may sound rather obvious to many people, but the Bible leaves the matter in a bit of obscurity. Here’s what I mean: In Mark 12:27, as the Sadducees are trying to convince Jesus that there is no resurrection of the dead, Christ responds by reminding them that God had... Read more

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2025-07-20T06:39:55-07:00

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The Saint as Revenant: How Homecoming Hones Holy Hunger

Last updated on: July 20, 2025 at 6:39 am By Clark Elder Morrow

If you could be taken instantaneously into the immediate, unfiltered presence of God, face to face, for only sixty seconds, and then returned to Earth, you would at once lust feverishly for Purity writhe and wrestle impatiently for Patience mourn with the look of an ignoramus for your own lack of Wisdom yearn with all the rebelliousness of history’s fiercest outlaws for Obedience feel your heart vault skyward in a leaping search for Humility, and feel your soul struggle like... Read more

2025-05-18T16:09:28-07:00

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The Two Kinds of Prayer: One Fast, One Slow

Last updated on: May 18, 2025 at 4:09 pm By Clark Elder Morrow

Recently I’ve been toying with the idea that in the realm of prayer, there are two vast and ill-defined regions: the occasional prayer and the non-occasional. Allow me to explain (and I certainly hope that my explanation offers some small measure of consolation to those who suffer from what they perceive to be an ineffective prayer life). In the 18th century composers would often produce works to celebrate or mark a particularly important event in the personal life of a... Read more

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2025-03-17T18:19:58-07:00

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Does Hell Drive the Lost Insane?

Last updated on: March 17, 2025 at 6:19 pm By Clark Elder Morrow

On those surprisingly frequent occasions when we imagine what Hell must be like, most of us, I think, tend to see tormented souls languishing in regret and misgiving. We see them writhing in an agony of repentance, sorry that they had wasted their lives in vain pursuits and ignominious sins. If we picture them at all – in any kind of psychological detail – I suppose we picture them in a state of perpetual repining, and ready (if the chance... Read more

2025-02-10T10:09:03-08:00

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Lambs as Soldiers? Christianity is Strange

Last updated on: February 10, 2025 at 10:09 am By Clark Elder Morrow

I’m certainly not the first one to point out that Christianity is a faith that entails a thousand paradoxes (G. K. Chesterton, of course, was the master at delineating them). But it may be possible that I can shed a little light on one in particular, and I feel that this paradox is especially odd. As Christians, we are called upon to be soldiers, of a sort – marching ever onwards, as the hymn has it, waging spiritual warfare and... Read more

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2024-09-17T10:59:02-07:00

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Tristitia: The Christian Sin of Surrender

Last updated on: September 17, 2024 at 10:59 am By Clark Elder Morrow

Tristitia is the Latin name for a sin, or a negative spiritual state, that is the subject of some degree of controversy. Usually, of course, sins are not very controversial — you won’t find many people defending theft, for example, or singing lauds to the glories of unadulterated envy. Murder is universally deplored, and adultery — if glanced at somewhat admiringly by the vanguard of degeneracy in our contemporary culture — retains its pejorative shading in most circles. But tristitia... Read more

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2024-08-26T12:42:38-07:00

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Tragically, God Gives Us What We Want

Last updated on: August 26, 2024 at 12:42 pm By Clark Elder Morrow

We are all aware of the fact that God hardened the heart of Pharaoh when Moses demanded that the Jewish people be allowed to leave Egypt. Pharaoh said No, and he said it repeatedly. And we know from our studies of Hebrew that when the Old Testament text says that God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, it means that God accelerated the man’s already-established predilection in the direction of refusal. Pharaoh had already determined on a course of stubbornness in regard to... Read more

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