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Funeral for the Red Pill
I’m hardly the only person to notice that, for those coming of age for marriage, America has become a social toxic wasteland. It’s bad enough that America is Western, with all the serious problems that can bring. Still, within that … Continue reading
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Tagged civilizations, culture, eldercraft, game, heart-led, marriage, Networked Civilization, networking technology, otherworldly, social context, worldliness
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Idolatry Refugees in the Church Marriage Market
Re: Sigma Frame’s Coram Mundo vs. Coram Deo Jack restates a question that appears often in the Christian Manosphere: Can women who were s1uts in the past, but then had a “born-again” saving experience, really become pure and undefiled? This … Continue reading
Posted in religion
Tagged biblical manhood, biblical womanhood, church, faith community, game, marriage
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Covenants 06
Epilogue: The Covenant God offers today has been the same since Creation itself. Now that we stand in the Spirit of Christ as our guide going back through the written Word, we note something important in the narrative of the … Continue reading
Posted in teaching
Tagged biblical manhood, biblical womanhood, covenants, game, marriage
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Make Him a Hero
To the world, Biblical Law looks like legal obligations. To Christian Mysticism, Biblical Law is the grace of God revealing how things work in a fallen world. If you embrace Radix Fidem, then anything resembling teaching of law is just … Continue reading
Is Biblical Courtship Possible?
Jack over at Sigma Frame has requested that I explain a comment I made on his blog that a biblical courtship is so counter to our Western culture as to be virtually illegal. More specifically, he broke it down into … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged Biblical Law, covenant community of faith, feudalism, marriage, tribal society
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Only 41 Years?
Where did the time go? This is my blushing bride from June 1978. We were moving into our first apartment after the wedding. Babe, I’d do it all over again in a heartbeat.
A Thought on Covenant Living
Keep mind the context here: We assume an effort to embrace the Biblical Covenant of Christ. Faith is the extension of Law Covenants, the goal of law teaching. Ideally, a man knows that his family household is his greatest treasure. … Continue reading
Theology and Practice — Odds and Ends
(This is the last in the series before I turn it into a book. You can always ask questions anytime, but if you want any additional issues covered in the book, you need to shoot me the questions in the … Continue reading
Treasures in a Far Country
Ancient Israel was an agrarian tribal society living in what we now call the Levant. The Law of Moses was specifically suited to that people, that time, that place. The New Testament pointedly says we are not obliged to copy … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible History, Biblical Law, cultural anthropology, marriage, shalom, tribal society
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Courtship and Longing
Courtship leading to marriage is a badly broken model. In a fully developed parallel society of heart-led awareness, there would be no courtship. Marriages would be arranged by heart-led elders, the people who know the couple best. Granted, the arrangements … Continue reading
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Tagged Biblical Law, eldercraft, marriage, shalom, shepherd role, social mythology, western civilization
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