Author: Bryan Stearns
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Knowledge Passes Away
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Thought of the day: We devote a lot of our time and energy toward avoiding decay. I don’t just mean thing like putting food in the fridge and keeping our buildings in good repair. I mean all the little practical nuggets of […]
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A Blessing to be Mundane
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Thought of the day: The American culture today raises us to value being unique/weird/special. I grew up with the mindset that I ought to try to do something worth recording in the history books or else I’d be wasting my life. This […]
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Easter Graveyard Procession
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Thought from church this morning: Wouldn’t it be cool to have the Easter procession start in the graveyard outside, looking at the graves with people we know have gone before us, and we say of Jesus, “He is not here, He is […]
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Book 5.1 – Test the Scriptures
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“Forever, O Lord, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens.Your faithfulness endures to all generations; you have established the earth, and it stands fast.By your appointment they stand this day, for all things are your servants.If your law had not been […]
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Receiving God’s Design for Creation
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https://wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/2022-02-09-bored-security-guard-drew-eyes-on-850000-painting-on-his-day-on-the-job/?fbclid=IwAR0mvCLwx82MFMa4e9UmeFON_bBrOjaw0Kc-nHsyQCCbTH-p5IahMg718-I Recently I read this article about how a security guard in an art museum got bored and doodled on one of the paintings on display there. This, combined with unrelated musings, inspired an analogy for God’s creation in my mind: Imagine […]
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Mocking Demons
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Thought of the day. Part of the picture of why we as Christians can tell the demons off: Through Christ we will live forever, in the flesh. Death has no hold on us. The demons, however, are going to perish (in hell […]
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Ode of Jeremiah
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To the tune of The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came: When feminism rears her ugly head,The daughters of Jerusalem fall dead.For glory in the fight for daily bread,No more shall Faith or Hope or Love be wed. But tears of sleepless brows […]
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Behold, The Lamb of God is Born!
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Behold, the Lamb of God is born,Whose holy blood has cleansed rebellious Earth.His altar’s fire our lips has burnedWith bread and wine delivered at His birth.Behold, the holy place’s wall is torn. Lo, how to Bethlehem was sentThe bread of life within […]
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Virtue Signaling in Public Statements
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[Think of the times when a celebrity responds to a news event with a statement that they condemn it.] Why [is it] a virtue to state one’s opinion to no one in particular? [Is there a d]ifference between articles/essays and [such statements […]
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Meditatio vs Tentatio
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When experience tempts one to disagree with higher truth, human abstraction has lost its grounding in reality: little-faith. [Consider the event of when Peter was called to walk to Jesus on the sea during the storm. He saw the waves and was […]