Faithfulness carries its own rewards
13/11/2024
Too little is taught of virtue, and faithfulness is not held in high regard. Virtue is the foundation to the Throne of Grace.
Category: The Two Trees
The Challenge from Eden
16/5/2023
To my mind 'obedience' is easy to say but ridiculously hard to do.
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Indecent Christian Faith
17/1/2023
Pure christian faith steps out of the boat without any visible means of support. A young and impulsive Peter first modeled this.
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SOUL SNACKS ~ Readers' Choice 2022
29/12/2022
APPREHENDING THE SUPERNATURALChristians believe in the resurrection of the dead. This is supernatural. But, after that many a Christian simply resides in a slippery spiritual acquiescence.
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The Conflict of ALL Ages!
23/8/2022
Since Adam and Eve's 'generosity' mankind too has chosen to 'eat' between two trees, the Tree of Life or the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
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Darkness is still darkness, Light is still light!
4/8/2022
There are still two trees. Only one teaches evil. Evil now 'hollers' out, demands that it is correct. Evil binds its adherents.
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The 1st two fruits from the Tree of Knowledge
1/5/2022
Countless trees were abundant in Eden, but God only named two of them. These two trees have challenged the course of the human race.
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The Bible is its best commentator!
1/2/2022
Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he? (Isaiah 2:22) For the history buffs and the trivia lover this post-flood record will fascinate: The Masoretic Text...
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Salvation, Peace & Decision
11/7/2021
The Scriptures can never fail me. Salvation, peace and decision making are three of its strongest elements.
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3 Provocative Theological Branches
29/8/2019
What informs us, forms us. ~ Michael Cartwright Countless trees were abundant in Eden, but God only named two of them.
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The Power of Unmeasured Patience
11/3/2019
Countless seasons have waxed and waned upon their necessary reliability. These are fortunately equal to my great skill at slow learning.
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Fed by Ravens
27/9/2018
The Lord feeds His own, those He sets aside - differently. So Elijah did what the Lord had told him.
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When Relationships Burn
24/9/2018
Don't try to fix me, I am not broken. ~ anon. Accusation and argument awakens the proud heart, but steals another's joy.
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The Cave & the Classroom
28/5/2018
There are only two seats of learning. The first seat is in a college with many instructors. Here there are equally many and contrary opinions.
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Easter plants the new Tree of Life!
25/3/2018
Prior to recorded time Adam and Eve were banished from Eden. God placed angelic sentinels with flaming swords at Eden's gateway to prevent mankind's return.
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Climb 'Till Your Dream Comes True
19/2/2018
Often your tasks will be many, And more than you think you can do. Often the road will be rugged And the hills insurmountable, too.
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Shaking a Sacred Tree
27/12/2017
With more than a hint of courage Martin Luther peeled back the accumulated Christian thinking of the church five centuries ago. Christian knowledge and theology were most necessarily refined.
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The Weakness of Adam
24/10/2017
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Humans are beggars in various clothes. The most tawdry of all clothing is acquiescence. It bemoans courage, covers sin and flees truth.
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God's Intent for the Nations
17/10/2017
It hasn't happened yet. . . God intends for righteousness and praise to rise before every nation. The nations have chosen the ways of wickedness, they slander Heaven.
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The Fatal Flaw of Equality, Tolerance & Love
29/8/2017
Launched from a post dawn Eden flies the perennial conflict between faith and knowledge. It wages to this day.
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The Eternal Story of Life
27/8/2017
The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food.
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The Different Portion from 2 Trees
22/8/2017
The search for knowledge is the task of the dissatisfied, those who seek answers to the unanswerable. Two paths exist to the student acquiring knowledge and enquiring of it.
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Chewing on Bushels of Knowledge
6/7/2017
God gave names to only two trees in the garden of Eden. He instructed Adam very carefully to only eat of one.
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Innocence is Meant to be Safe!
28/3/2017
Walking naked, innocent (and at first lonely) among the avocado trees, under the swooping parrots and beside the mighty Pishon River was the only life Adam had ever known.
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Shaking the Tree of Knowledge
28/11/2016
'Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers'. ~ Calvin Coolidge Our knowledge piles up, so too its impact.
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The Tactics of Knowledge
27/11/2016
Around the turn of last century (circa 1903) Arthur Tappan Pierson (an American Presbyterian pastor) wrote of the dire tactics from the Tree of Knowledge to suppress the knowledge from...
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Dividing Good & Evil
14/6/2016
Mankind sings himself hoarse to his own changing tunes. He dances in Babylon but refuses join hands with Jerusalem. The libraries of this world become our kitchens.
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The Meeting of Wisdom
15/5/2016
Life letting you down? Maybe your days are throttled by the worry and fears of tomorrow? Are your paths unclear, with many differing voices that conflict? So much conspires.
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Of Apostles, Prophets & Pharisees
4/4/2016
What is the foundation of the reformed modern Christian church? Is it not knowledge with the cornerstone of academic degrees; self-feted by the legalism of a proud correctness.
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The Garden of Theology
1/12/2015
The Bible names just two trees in Eden, although trees were in abundance.
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Pleasing the Eye
13/10/2015
Deliberately God planted two significant trees beside each other at the center of Eden. So noteworthy in fact, they were the only two trees He named.
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6 Reasons Why Healing Fails
21/9/2015
Our prayers have risen as incense to heaven. Though persistently released from our heart in great hunger, we may even beg for supernatural healings yet they fail.
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Healing - a Cautionary Tale#
20/9/2015
It is disturbing to me that God can be viewed by Christ's followers as a willing under-achiever. Countless generations prior to the invention of the printing press (c.
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A Healing God? ~ Part B
17/9/2015
There is an impassioned plea to be made for the God who raises the dead, heals the sick and conquers evil - HE STILL DOES THIS! Yet too many Christians languish...
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The Idol of Theology
17/5/2015
Man's measurements and God's measurements do not equate. What is highly valued among man is detestable to God.
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Navigating Spiritual Disability ~ B
22/4/2015
Why is man so literally blind to the infinite truths of the spiritual world and its permanence? Stephen Hawking suggests an old chestnut that further illustrates the above question: "There is a...
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Navigating Spiritual Disability ~ A
21/4/2015
Are we not spiritual cripples? Why is spiritual perception so dull? Why does so much of the western world believe in few or no spiritual realties at all? Why does the human body...
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That Bad Tree!
12/3/2015
The battle of life is the battle for the soul. This war is waged on one field called 'life', but within the shade of two trees.
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2 Sources of Wisdom?
19/1/2015
There were two trees in the Garden of Eden - one has seduced us and other has saved us.
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Theological Twilight ~ B
27/11/2014
Soul Snack 228/14 . . . Shepherds gather sheep. They search for the lost, bind up the wounded and heal the sick.
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A Dose of the Holy Ghost!
9/10/2014
Soul Snack 193/14 . . . Christians are all apprentices in the arms of the Lord.
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The Serpent's Contours
6/7/2014
Soul Snack 126/14 . . . Ponder the serpent in Eden. Pictorially it is often portrayed as coiled around a trunk and whispering to Eve.
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The Enemy of Love
3/7/2014
Soul Snack 125/14 . . . With a now memorable disappointment, I read last century an aging journalist's singular top tip for life.
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Axing Adam
1/7/2014
Soul Snack 123/14 . . . Did Adam listen? God planted two trees at Eden's center prior to placing Adam amongst them.
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Adam's Ache
15/5/2014
Soul Snack 92/14 . . . Adam's disobedient reach to the apple would bear far more than belly pain.
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The Un-Social Media
21/4/2013
Soul Snack 74/13 . . . The Un-Social Media The social media is a Trevi fountain of the ratbags and the rabid.
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To the serially rejected
20/3/2013
Soul Snack 55/13 . . . To the serially rejected The torn heart, the compressed soul or the shattered spirit is the dwelling of the serially rejected.
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Kingdom Keys
25/6/2012
Soul Snack 104/12 . . . Kingdom Keys Keys are about understanding, privilege, authority and ownership. Keys are received by birth, education, promotion, good association or by wealth.
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The Prince of Paradise - A
3/8/2009
Soul Snack 82/12 . . . The Prince of Paradise - A All forms of vegetation abounded in Eden and surrounded Adam.