RU Essay 3: Romans 8

Greetings, Romans neatly divides into two main halves that flow smoothly into each other. The first is most pertinent to my series, although the second is also very important. So I will focus on the one half, and merely sum up the second half. First off, there are two very important words to notice in [...]

RU Essay 2: Romans 6

Greetings, Romans six has two main topics. I could, I suppose, have subverted the text to render the more traditional three topics, but I find the two to be the more natural and exegetical option. These two topics are the Motivation for Sanctification, and the Method of Sanctification. Motivation for Sanctification Paul deals twice with [...]

RU Essay 1: My Testimony

Greetings, Reformer’s Unanimous is a faith-based addictions program. It does not focus on self-improvement, but on the vanquishing of self by yielding to the meekness of Christ. It does not focus on conformation to a behavior pattern, but on inner transformation into the image of Christ. It does not define addictions as an undesirable habit [...]

The Semantics of Risk

Greetings, I am going to embark on a risky subject: a semantic quagmire. I hate semantic debates, for they always tend to disrupt any effort made towards efficient communication. I have yet to see a semantic delineation that was both elegant and clear, while at the same time as brutally practical as semantics need to [...]

Update

Greetings, I have not been posting nearly as much as I have been wanting to in this past week or so. It is not because I ran out of topics, far from it. I have a hugely long list of topics that need to be got to. Basically I just ran out of steam and [...]

Loci Memory System

Greetings, I have had a few curious questions regarding my “Loci” memory system that I use. I have mentioned it in a few places, and so I am thinking that it might be good to give a quick overview of what I do. I learned my system from Ron White‘s course “Memory in a Month.” [...]

Free, Very Important Lesson from Gracie University!

Greetings, As many of you probably have noticed, I, my brother Patrick, and my father are all learning Gracie Jiu-Jitsu. We are learning it because it is the most effective and efficient martial arts system in the world. It is also geared for a mindset that is congruent with the principles that a Christian should [...]

Thoughts, Clouds, and God

Greetings, Something that the Lord has been blessing me with in the past two weeks is a growing awareness of the Spiritual side of things. It is so amazing to be thinking about one thing, and then suddenly it is connected with a spiritual principle, reminding you of who you are in Christ, and of [...]

Tazhgü recipe

In Ämos Maracca, the capital of the Karnanian province of Tskarnor, there is an avenue of merchants that is adjacent ot the street of Almonds and Dates. All along it, by almost every stall, there are great braziers, wafting upwards a multitudinous variety of scents, albeit with a common theme: they are the Tazhgü dishes [...]

The Definition of Crime

1 Peter 2:9 But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: I am not declaring these definitions to be universally binding, only that this is how I will [...]