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See What Else I’ve Been Writing About, Lately
- Occupying, Part 6: Here, There, and Everywhere (on Where)
- Occupying, Part 5: The Temporal/Spiritual Continuum (on When)
- Guest Feature, “A Time for Choosing: A Test for Our Souls” (theepochtimes.com)
- On Occupying, Part 4: What We Are–as in The Remnant of Our Time. Now
- On Occupying, Part 3: “Strangers, nomads and pilgrims” (Guest Feature) and One More Thing on “Who”
- Americans May Need to Wake Up but God Never Sleeps
- On Occupying, Part 2: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How
- It’s Always The Day To Choose (a poem of invitation)
- Guest Features: Scientists Warn of the Dangers of New Kind of mRNA Vaccine for COVID-19
- Guest Feature: “Catherine Austin Fitts Confirms Goals of Technocracy, Transhumanism” (from Technocracy News, January 4, 2021)
- To “The llusionist” (redux), the Kraken’s End, and This Week in U.S. History
- God is in the Details–They Also Serve Who Mine the Data. Guest feature: Interview with Digital Warrior Seth Keshel
- Guest Feature: “I Blockchain, Therefore I Am” (by Paige Donner) and “On God’s Blockchain: Getting to #Truth” (redux)
- “Standing on the threshold,” Guest Feature by Colin Markham
- Deliverance from Evil Then and for the U.S. Today: On Abigail, Sun Tzu, and The Believer’s Field Manual
- For 2021: On Timing, Patterns, and Occupying (Part 1)
- Remnant (A Poem for Our Time and the Time to Come)
- A Christian’s Perspective in Light of Civil Unrest
- “Yet He Said Yes” (Redux–and Forever)
- “But Will More Americans Learn…?” Part 2: An Interview with L. Lin Wood
New Series: Psalm 37
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Category Archives: Christmas themed
Remnant (A Poem for Our Time and the Time to Come)
Phyllis Beveridge Nissila It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings. (Proverbs 25:2) So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. … Continue reading
Posted in 2020, 2021, Christian poetry, Christmas themed, most recent posts, poetry
Tagged seek and you shall find, the remnant
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Phyllis Beveridge Nissila Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us… (Ephesians 1:4) For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or … Continue reading
That First Noel
Phyllis Beveridge Nissila In the completeness of time (just in time) He came one night squalling, hungry, swaddled, cradled– and they wondered who they held.
Another Christmas re-gift: Once Again to Nabokov
Phyllis Beveridge Nissila 2020 This post first appeared back in 2012, and has been featured several times since, each time for a new reason in an old story of evil versus good, fear versus hope, bondage versus freedom, despair versus … Continue reading
Posted in 2020, Bible/literary themes, elements, Christmas themed, Devotionals, most recent posts, poetry, spiritual survival, spiritual transformation
Tagged Attacus, Christmas, comfort at death of child, comfort at tragic death of child, comfort for Colorado, comfort for Newtown grief, devotional for death of a loved one, encouragement after loss of a loved one, hope, hope for Newtown families, hope in despair, hope in grief, John chapter 1, Nabokov's story Christmas, new life in Christ, sympathy for Colorado, Vladimir Nabokov
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To the Manor Born Again (an Advent Poem)
Phyllis Beveridge Nissila But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. (1 Corinthians 2:9) To the Manor … Continue reading
Posted in Christian poetry, Christmas themed, most recent posts, poetry
Tagged advent, advent poem, to the manor born again
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Seeking God While He is Yet Found–in Metaphor, Matrix, and Magnum Mysterium
Phyllis Beveridge Nissila Metaphor For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities–his eternal power and divine nature–have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made… (Romans 1:20, NIV) I often think of what we see, hear, taste, … Continue reading
Best of Holiday Posts–“From Russia with Hope: Christmas in July” (2012) and a Verse (2019)
Phyllis Beveridge Nissila This post first appeared as a “Christmas in July” feature in 2012. The short story “Christmas” by Russian author Vladimir Nabokov is a little literary gem that for me addresses the temptation to despair when grief overshadows … Continue reading
Posted in Bible/literary themes, elements, Christmas themed, Devotionals, most recent posts, poetry, spiritual survival, spiritual transformation
Tagged Attacus, Christmas, comfort at death of child, comfort at tragic death of child, comfort for Colorado, comfort for Newtown grief, devotional for death of a loved one, encouragement after loss of a loved one, hope, hope for Newtown families, hope in despair, hope in grief, John chapter 1, Nabokov's story Christmas, new life in Christ, sympathy for Colorado, Vladimir Nabokov
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Still. In the Moment. God. (Even in 2020)
Phyllis Beveridge Nissila UPDATE December, 2020 This post, first offered in the summer of 2016, is a reminder again today to trust God when it seems the (political) Kraken, “battened” (fattened) sufficiently on power and greed, has finally surfaced for … Continue reading →