Uninspired
Even in seasons of mental exhaustion and spiritual dryness, God remains faithful, offering rest, grace, and quiet strength to weary hearts.
Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Even in seasons of mental exhaustion and spiritual dryness, God remains faithful, offering rest, grace, and quiet strength to weary hearts.
The albergue looks like a mountain chalet. We are snugly situated deep within the Fonfaraón Mountains, which climb high into the Spanish sky, separating us from an entire civilization below the cloud line.
Here atop the world, the mountain peaks look like incarnations of the Appalachians, with a fuzzy, green carpet-like texture, rounded edges, and swooping valleys that gather pools of fog like a white lake.
We will be hiking this today.
January 1st, 2000 was a strange day for me. After more than a decade operating the photography studio I had built from scratch, I woke up that day unemployed for the first time in my life. I was doing my best to seek God’s direction for the Christian newspaper He’d called me to start. I had some ideas, and having worked for a weekly County newspaper about 14 years prior, and having seen multiple Christian newspapers from other states, I had some knowledge of how to do it.
The Sevenfold Purpose of God in Human Affliction–Are you in the middle of a painful season, wondering if any good can possibly come from your current struggles?
The village of Tineo is bathed in thick morning fog. The impenetrable miasma is smothering the Sierra de Tineo mountains like a damp dishrag.
The miasma is really spectacular. I have always wanted to use the word “miasma.” But I’ve never had a reason to use it until now. I’ve gone for many, many years with a burning passion to use this word, just like actual authors do in actual classic literature, but alas, I’ve never had the opportunity. Until today. But now that I’ve used “miasma,” I don’t feel any elation inside. In fact, I feel nothing. It was not the exuberant vocabularial experience I was hoping for.
“Take time, pilgrim,” the old Frenchman said. “Take time to stop and smell every flower, not just some of them.”
He was old. If not in body, in soul. What little bit of white hair he once possessed had vanished. So had some of his teeth.
A rooster crows as day breaks over the surrounding Cantabrian Mountains. He crows every few moments, singing an anthem to morning, his voice ringing throughout the tiny village of Cornellana.
I am in a bar, drinking morning joe. My bartender is working his buns off.
Our first day walking the Camino. We leave our inn at Oviedo a little after daybreak. There are no people on the streets. No cars. Only one stray dog, dutifully cleaning his privates, and one old man hosing down a section of street in front of his shop while smoking a cigar the size of …
There’s a comforting lie modern people like to tell themselves: we outgrew the occult. We traded candles and chants for peer review and lab reports. We’re rational now. Enlightened. Too sophisticated for ancient nonsense. Michael S. Heiser spent a good portion of his career politely—and then not so politely—blowing that idea to pieces. Heiser, who …
We find a table in the old Spanish café and order two cafés con leche. I order our breakfast by repeatedly tapping the menus and saying in English, “Uh, I’m sorry, I don’t know this word…”
My waitress finds my ordering technique amusing.
Our Father, which art in heaven, hi. How are you doing? How’s the family? Have you made any progress on that request I made earlier about Florida Powerball?
Worship is the way that we show reverence, respect, and love for our God. And music is one of the wonderful ways that we can worship!
This month marks an important milestone for me, because I’m now starting my 27th year of full time ministry in publishing Wisconsin Christian News. It’s been a long, challenging and narrow road. When I began this work, I was a young man. Now I’m old, and feeling my age, and so, I can’t help but reflect on all these years doing the “toughest job I’ve ever loved.” So, I’d like to share the story with you today, and I hope you’ll find some inspiration from it and praise the Lord along with me for all He’s done.
In Deuteronomy 11:13-21 we learn how God wants us to teach our children, instructing them in the ways of the Lord at all times. God is faithful in return, making it so our physical lives on this earth are sustained. When we eat we will be satisfied.
Imagine waking up to headlines proclaiming, “The Vatican Confirms the Existence of Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life.” With one statement, the spiritual and scientific foundations of billions would be shaken. But what would such a declaration really mean? For those who take biblical prophecy seriously, it might not be the dawn of new enlightenment—but the beginning of a global deception foretold in Scripture.
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., discusses the DOJ reporting that the Biden administration targeted Christians on ‘America Reports.’
My packing list for the Camino:
Hiking boots. The route we will be taking to Santiago this year is called the Camino Primitivo. It is the oldest route to Santiago. The first pilgrim to hike this particular route hiked it 1,200 years ago, shortly after the birth of Willie Nelson.
Do Americans not understand what Donald Trump is doing and has done? The Left certainly doesn’t, but he’s virtually removed Iran, the primary funder of Islamic worldwide terrorism from contention, at the same time diminished the potential for Communist China to continue its aim of achieving world hegemony, and has revealed America’s Western partners (NATO) to be feckless, unworthy allies. Trump has positioned America to become the very center of the world’s energy needs and, in doing so, has destroyed the New World Order’s schemes of doing so. He has realigned trading partnerships by enforcing the Monroe Doctrine, removing both China and Russian influence from our hemisphere. He has redirected the world’s energy needs, and has the Socialist Democrat party frothing at the mouth. Trump did this because nobody else had even thought of trying. This represents a major realignment of the world order.
America is betwixt and between more things than you can shake a stick at. The conflict with Iran is on the front burner. Every election cycle at every level is another contest worth winning. Every institution – Government, Business, Education, Media, Arts and Entertainment, Religion, and Family is caught in the crossfire of a No Mans Lands in the Great U.S. Culture War. That’s the struggle against Cultural Marxism and it’s new, best ally – Islamist Totalitarianism.