The Underground Scribe

What's the Relationship Between Eternal Security and Forgiveness? (Disparate Things #3, Questions #2, Part 2) I  enjoy drawing parallels between seemingly disparate things, and as a Bible college student I love when questions pop up in my studies t...

PART 2 -- Bible student question of the week: What's the relationship between eternal security and forgiveness?

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What's the Relationship Between Eternal Security and Forgiveness? (Disparate Things #3, Questions #2, Part 1) I  enjoy drawing parallels between seemingly disparate things, and as a Bible college student I love when questions pop up in my studies t...

Bible college student question of the week--How are the Christian concepts of forgiveness and eternal security related?

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In Plain Sight A cookie cutter a glisten of sugar a remnant of lace a length of ribbon a rose from a long-ago corsage bits and bobs gathered bring out of...

bits and bobs gathered
bring out of hiding
more beauty than we ever guessed was there.

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Musings P art of the sin of anger is that it's often a cover for more vulnerable emotions. To the extent anger isn't anger, it's a lie. T he only pe...

Part of the sin of anger is that it's often a cover for more vulnerable emotions. To the extent anger isn't anger, it's a lie.

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Prayer for February D ear Father, we often give little thought to February except to call it dreary and short. Lacking the frosty diamond brightness of Januar...

Father, thank you for your grayscale, silvertone, interlude called February, and use it to speak to our spirits.

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When Your Gift W hen your gift doesn't make room for you usher you anywhere at all even though the word says it will-- wait look  it'll come: the small c...

When your gift makes room for you
ushers you in
because God said it would,
go in on your knees
go in with your readiness
go in with integrity
go in, in Him
because you've been ushered
into the presence
of the Great.

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Musings S ince the Holy Spirit lives in me, I want to live in such a way that He is happy about it.  W hen sharing the gospel, who you are matters...

Since the Holy Spirit lives in me, I want to live in such a way that He is happy about it.

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A Year of Beauty T ea and a sweet, anyone? I don't usually think in terms of choosing a "word of the year," but the word beauty has been repeating strongl...

"One thing...to gaze on the beauty of the Lord..." (Ps 27:4)

"And your fame spread...on account of your beauty..."(Ez 16:14)

It's the beauty all around us that testifies of God (Rom 1:20). May His beauty convince many, many more this year.

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Random Questions from a Bible Student (Questions #1) S ometimes questions are just lovely in themselves. It occurs to me that some are to be pondered, some enjoyed, some even perhaps forgotte...

How lovely are Bible QUESTIONS?

"It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings..."

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To Grow Your Faith, Grow Your Hope W e know this saying is Scripture; in fact, it's the words of Jesus (Matthew 17:20; Luke 17:6). Yet struggling with faith is common, strug...

Want to grow your faith? Grow your hope.

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Masqueraders T he other day I wrote about an idea that struck me while reading 2 Corinthians 10. The same thing happened when I went on to Chapter 11. ...

Why not to be shaken by masqueraders.

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Writing and Doing T he other day, I noticed something interesting in 2 Corinthians, which was maybe especially noticeable to me because I am a writer. Let m...

Writing and doing: why Paul's "weighty" letters and "unimpressive" speech aren't contradictory.

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Thoughts for Today I f you would go higher in purpose, you must go deeper in Christ. T here's a saying out there that life is not a dress rehearsal. Except th...

Thoughts for today: If you would go higher in purpose, you must go deeper in Christ.

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Uh-Oh, I Don't Like What the Scripture Says Y ou're reading your Bible and have come across something that makes you go, "What? This must mean something other than what it sounds lik...

Uh-oh, I don't like what the Scripture says. What now?

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Prayer for a New Year F ather, our slates for 2026 may not be as blank as this. Then again, they may. It's lovely to think of a whole new year with "no mistakes...

In 2026, we pray the jottings that fill our notebooks and calendars be from You, as much as fallible humans can make them. We pray to record thoughts taken captive to Christ, and let this be what spills out of us, much more often than not.

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Frost Haiku "A rt is frivolous" Father would beg to differ It's His signature

"Art is frivolous"
Father would beg to differ
It's His signature

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Some thoughts on observing Christmas

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Foretaste When I smile at what I create, and I think, "This is good," I give thanks that it's only a shadow of the beauty He has made.   How much more...

When I smile at what I create, and I think, "This is good," I give thanks that it's only a shadow of the beauty He has made.

How much more beautiful the beauty of what God creates?

How much homier the home we have with Him?
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Encouraging Yourself in the Lord W e all welcome encouragement, especially when things aren't going well. But when things really, really aren't going well, or maybe it's th...

Steps to encouraging yourself in the Lord.
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The Body No stitch too small no thread too fine for its unique space its singular place in the whole.

Every believer's role in the body, no matter how small or intricate, is irreplaceable.

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Trees of Righteousness 'T is the season. Closeups of tree by day; tree by night. Not all Christians believe in putting up a Christmas tree. But looking at and thin...

If we would have wide-reaching branches, we must have deep-reaching roots.
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Gratitude, Gratefulness, Appreciation, and Thanksgiving L ord, thank You first, for the plethora of words for thanks in our English language. May the abundance of food we eat be matched by the ric...

Gratitude, gratefulness, appreciation, and thanksgiving--a Thanksgiving prayer.
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Thoughts for Today T o receive the new wine, I must be a new wineskin.  T here's more freedom available in Christ than we're willing to accept.  I nstead of ...

To receive the new wine, I must be a new wineskin.
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Does a Poem Mean? D oes a poem mean?  Or is it that it sounds? Or does it but gather delicious words to scatter on a page, like splendid floor or quintessen...

What is a poem? Is it meaning? Is it sound? Is it frivolous? Or is it maybe participation in creation?
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Uh-Oh, The Unforgivable Sin W hen I was a new Christian, the topic of the unforgivable sin was pretty prominent in church circles. The Scripture references this in Ma...

What is the unforgivable sin? Why you actually DON'T want to know.
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The Sin of Not Resting I n America--and I think not only in America--we have a culture of non-stop busyness. We have had for my entire adult life. You know what th...

Why ignoring rest is sin.
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Distractions--Are They? R ecently, I was in a discussion about distractions. It didn't sit right with me, and I want to clarify my thoughts on the topic. First of...

Distractions: Are they?
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Ideas A common saying among professional writers is that they have so many ideas they will never live long enough to write them all.  That was ...

Ideas: our own, or the breath of the Holy Spirit?
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Light, More Light, Continued (Controversies #12) M aybe you have to be able to remember life in the '50s, but isn't it interesting how the way we treat Halloween has changed over the decade...

How Halloween illustrates the fable of The Camel and the Tent.
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Giving Jesus the Highest Place A father, shortly before he died, was reviewing a life well lived with his grown daughter. "I regret, though," he said, "that a personal ...

Is God part of your life? Or is that actually an incorrect view?
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