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2023-09-04T11:28:09-07:00

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The Power of “Not Me”: One Man’s Opinion

Last updated on: September 4, 2023 at 11:28 am By Clark Elder Morrow

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Beloved brothers and sisters, let us reflect for a moment on the extraordinary magic and significance of something not being us. How wonderful it is that the trees and the lakes and the mountains are not me, and – what is infinitely more important – that they are not God. I rejoice in the fact (the thankfully undeniable fact) that there is a gulf and a chasm that yawns between myself and the world of Nature – personify her as... Read more

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2023-08-28T10:25:51-07:00

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How Long Will God “Discipline” A Follower of His?

Last updated on: August 28, 2023 at 10:25 am By Clark Elder Morrow

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In John 16:33, Jesus tells His followers that “in this world” they will have troubles or afflictions, but not to worry: He, Jesus, has “overcome the world”. Which I take to mean that whatever trouble you face as a Christ-follower can be easily overcome by the Lord, depending on how He weighs the relative advantages of your ongoing chastisement or your immediate succor. Now earlier, in Luke 8:7-14, Jesus had told “the parable of the sower”, in which He had... Read more

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2023-08-21T19:51:24-07:00

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The Virtue of “Negative Capability” in Christian Life

Last updated on: August 21, 2023 at 7:51 pm By Clark Elder Morrow

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“Your ‘if’ is your only peacemaker: much virtue in ‘if’” — Shakespeare This may not be the place to launch into the eternally-convoluted battle over predestination, but it might be worth considering for a moment the sheer number of times the word “if” is used in scripture. I haven’t counted up all the instances of its occurrence in The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, but they spread like lines of sprinkled pepper on page after page. According to one... Read more

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2023-08-06T12:43:21-07:00

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When It Comes To God’s Will, Who Knows?

Last updated on: August 6, 2023 at 12:43 pm By Clark Elder Morrow

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In the second book of Samuel, in chapter 12, we read the story of how King David’s infant son dies as punishment for David’s adultery with the baby’s mother, and for the king’s complicity in the murder of the mother’s husband. While the child lingered in illness, David prayed desperately and fasted, imploring God for the baby’s recovery. After the infant dies, the king washes, resumes his usual countenance, and sits down to a meal. His courtiers respond with these... Read more

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2023-08-05T16:03:01-07:00

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Yes, We Should “Fear” God

Last updated on: August 5, 2023 at 4:03 pm By Clark Elder Morrow

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Imagine you and a friend are hiking through a large Northern California forest, and the two of you are immersed in a deeply-involving discussion of philosophy. Lost to your surroundings, you both stop for a moment, face each other, and expound your points enthusiastically. You put an exclamation mark on your last sentence and turn around. You walk smack into the largest, tallest Redwood tree on earth. You look up: the monster tree looms like a skyscraper and is wider... Read more

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2023-08-21T13:25:39-07:00

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A Long-Dead Frenchwoman Tells Us How To Nurse At God’s Bosom

Last updated on: August 21, 2023 at 1:25 pm By Clark Elder Morrow

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G.K. Chesterton once wrote that a person who relied entirely on his own spiritual resources, was like a man who sucked his own thumb in order to derive nourishment. Obviously we have to look outside of ourselves to find our true “food”. Our eternal sustenance comes from an eternal Source; the immediate question is: how do we cultivate and ingest that “immortal manna”? We human beings tend to make a great pother and to-do about getting close to God, as... Read more

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2023-07-17T09:15:42-07:00

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God’s Providence? What’s That, Exactly?

Last updated on: July 17, 2023 at 9:15 am By Clark Elder Morrow

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It doesn’t seem to be true at first glance, but the words provision and providence mean exactly the same thing etymologically. The prefix pro-, a variant of pre-, means, of course, “before” or “preceding”; while both -vision and -vidence derive from the Latin video, meaning “I see”. Therefore, both provision and providence signify a kind of “foreseeing” or a “seeing something before” the events that follow after. But we know well enough that the definitions of these words differ greatly. ... Read more

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2023-08-01T11:30:57-07:00

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The Natural vs The Unnatural

Last updated on: August 1, 2023 at 11:30 am By Clark Elder Morrow

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One of the earliest of the operettas by Gilbert and Sullivan is The Sorcerer, which dates from 1877. I don’t know whether W. S. Gilbert had become familiar with the works of Karl Marx by that date, but his libretto for The Sorcerer is a brilliant parody of the idea that class distinctions in society can be artificially and (the word is inevitable) “unnaturally” done away with. As this is the introductory essay for the Dinosaur, I am going to... Read more

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