Tag: goodness
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The Tyranny of Certainty: How Absolutism Distorts the Soul’s Path to Justice The 1950 film Rashomon, directed by Akira Kurosawa, is a masterful exploration of the human soul’s deepest contradictions. I’ve been a big fan of Kurosawa since discovering his work as a teenager, however this is one which took time and experience to fully…
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A Christian Philosopher Watches The Godfather There exists a profound confusion in this age of noise regarding greatness. We tend to equate importance with stature: a towering building, a commanding voice, or an unquestioned position. Something within each of us admires the one who sits highest upon the mountain, yet they more often remain blinded…
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Living in the Kingdom of God Beloved warrior in our Lord, today we discuss eternal duty defining the true soldier: to live as an eager disciple within the domains of heaven. This aspiration, this calling, requires careful considerations in Courage and Loyalty. Far from any earthly definitions, the redefinition in Logos through Willpower Truth, this…
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Training Against the Age Beloved warrior in Jesus, let us now turn once more to the most important training in our repertoire: prayer. Spiritual combat is what we are born to, and it is our prayer which enables us to fight back encroaching forces. In an age where technology seeks to replace the sacred and…
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The Art of Spiritual Dialogue Beloved seeker after sacred communication, we turn to the weapon which clears the battlefield of any confusion, that discourse in spiritual dialogue which is prayer, a bow only as useful as its last strung arrow, yet handcrafted pliancy of layered Prudent yew, elastic flexibility, and Temperate oak, firm rigidity. This…
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Willpower as Spiritual Weapon Dear seeker after truth in God’s love, as we advance in our exploration of spiritual warfare, we are skipping forward all the way to the end now to encounter a weapon of unmatched potency: Willpower. This is not the typical definition of willpower however. What is it then? This is not…
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Truth & Temptation Dear seeker after the gifts of God, this field of spiritual warfare requires discernment. This is not an intellectual exercise but a discipline piercing the soul, separating truth from deception. How can we be expected to perform on this spiritual battlefield if we cannot discern our spiritual enemies from our allies? The…
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Material Power Without Mastery or Spiritual Power Now, the fool in power is both a victim of his own delusion and a participant in the divine comedy as stumbling block. He may believe himself to be the master of his fate, yet he is but a player in a larger drama written by God, outside…
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Our Condition Dearly beloved, ignorance has always been recognised as fundamental to the human setting. However, it is equally true that error is typically not recognisable without a more complete picture of the correct thing and its purpose. Error, therefore, cannot be ignored. To define ourselves by the sin or error, however, is to lose…
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Bridge to Gratitude for Grace On this blog I have discussed the importance of Magnanimity at length. It is the first of the structural virtues and it truly cannot be overestimated as all other virtues depend completely upon it. “Magna” means great and “anima” means spirit, together it produces grace and forgiveness, the greatest GRACE…