My servant Isaiah has been going around too sexy for YouTube for three years. (Isaiah 20:3) Paraphrased
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
(Romans 1:28) KJV
Google search console is fascinating. It allows you to see how people find your content. People find us who are worried about whether or not they may have a reprobate mind.
Continue reading “Can a reprobate mind be reversed?”
Have you ever felt constrained? trapped? or tied down? If yes then hopefully you also know what it feels like the be released, set free, or liberated. We (that’s me and the Holy Spirit) are feeling this now.
Continue reading “We dodged a dystopian hellscape, for now”
Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:
(Jeremiah 23:15) ESV
“Behold, I will feed them with bitter food
and give them poisoned water to drink,
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”
Reaping what we sow as bitter consequences for bad decisions is caused by misrepresenting God and leading people astray with false teachings. Jeremiah made this charge against false prophets in his time.
Continue reading “We Reap What We Sow”
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
(2 Peter 3:9) KJV
Water is the essence of free will which is why God used it as the raw material for the universe. God’s goal was to create sentient life that had the ability to accept or reject Him as creator based on the testimony of the creation itself.
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Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.
(Luke 15:13) ESV
1988 was a pivotal year in our life. We went from life in a small English seaside town to life in a sprawling metropolitan area with a University campus with a population larger than our home town.
Continue reading “1988: The Year Donald Lost His Mind”
Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
(Philippians 4:4-7) KJV
We can find ourselves in turmoil at this time of year with the frantic running around that needs to be done. The rest of the world is also frantically running around at the same time.
Continue reading “Peace that Passes all Understanding”
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
(Isaiah 14:9) KJV
Is it Christian to warn people that hell is real? Hell is expanding, it’s the cause of global warming.
Continue reading “September 26th”
One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
(Revelation 9:12-19) KJV
And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
(Revelation 16:12-16) KJV
The first five trumpets and vials are all part of the first of three woes. Blowing the 6th trumpet and pouring out the 6th vial of wrath is described as the second woe.
Continue reading “November 9th”
I’m years behind the curve of understanding the impact that self publishing has had in the publishing business. I’m last one off the blocks in learning the ins and outs of social media. When it comes to technology and consumer electronics I like mine 5+ years old. I’m not in a rush here folks, so why do I feel so much pressure?
Pinning one’s hopes on becoming the next Jeffery Archer or Stephen King has probably slimmer odds than winning the lottery. Self publishing an ebook on Amazon means that the work in question has to be finished and polished. Such dilemmas. Looking at the offerings for advice on preparing a manuscript runs the gamut from: ask a friend who is an English teacher to read it, to: hire a team of editors, illustrators, marketers and publicists.
What if I choose none of the above? From my vantage point every strategy I have seen to date has really just one goal: selling books. Which is another way of saying: making money. What if I were to take that out of the equation? If making money has no bearing at all on my motivation, then why am I motivated?
With the ultra-connected internet of everything breathing down our necks let’s take a moment to think about cultural longevity. When kids were asked which would they prefer, a long-lasting stable career or to produce a viral video? Most of them chose the viral video. It would be pretty neat wouldn’t it? to have 1 billion views of a video of me tipping over a barbed wire fence and having my pants ripped off. Hilarious. Painful, but hey, it got 1 billion views.
The quest to go viral has become viral.
Given this backdrop, of multiple multimedia platforms able to reach about 1.6 billion people around the world, let’s think about this: would it be possible to have our ideas, characters and story, woven into the cultural fabric of our time? It is theoretically possible to have the entire collective consciousness of internet users be familiar with our product. It should even be possible to do this without either spending or making any money.
If it is possible to do this it would represent a breakage of the link between wealth and influence. Traditionally wealth would be necessary to have influence, and a great example of this is the Donald Trump Presidential campaign. Love him or hate him, the power he has to attract media coverage is because of the influence of his wealth.
Poor people have had great influence, to be sure. Jesus Christ for example. He feeds a deep spiritual need and give hopes to millions of people. Could that avenue be tapped? Could we find the spiritual truth that people today don’t even know that they need, and use it to become universally known? Would it be wrong?
These are interesting times to be sure. let’s not miss something blindingly obvious because we are trying to make money.
So we come back to the thing that has been bothering me. Jesus Christ gave to the church a great commission,
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the World. (Matthew 28:19,20)
Given the power of social media to reach out to people all around the world, it would seem that there is a moral imperative to use it to reach as many people as possible. Let’s face it, all this technology and the power of the internet surely has more value than to simply promote pornography, right? Plus, if our endeavor is within the will of God then His divine power and influence will be brought to bear. Imagine that, we can do like an experiment, a testable hypothesis indeed:
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31)
So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. (1 Corinthians 3:7)
Consider this my way of telling the world that I am beginning an evangelistic mission, preaching salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. On the internet, for free.
The Naked Prophet 