About What I Write
Christ Revealed BooksThe first portion of this website is my writing to teach. This is current material, written or re-written after I passed half-way through writing the Symmorphy texts. It is only since writing "A Highway for God," that I, for the first time, understand the gospel and actually have something to teach. |
Turning the Ages BooksThe second portion of this website is current writing that is not introductory and thus is writing to learn. The primary question in these series is how will the Feast of Tabernacles be fullfilled now in the Church, that is, how does God enter through us into our world to be seen and known by all. |
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Symmorphy BooksThe "Symmorphy" portion of this website is, in many ways, the most important. In these five volumes, written as college textbooks, are my exploration of what it means to live with Jesus and Father inside of us and we inside of them, as applied to the Kingdom, to the Covenant, and to Life together as the Church. |
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Covenant Fulfilled BooksThe "Covenant Fulfilled" texts began with that moment when God turned me right side up in the fall of 2011 and I began to know God in a way I had not known before. These books are my first attempts to set out an understanding of Kingdom and Covenant, and of the real meaning of both reality and the gospel. |
Our Path Home BooksThe "Our Path Home" set of books begins with The Jesus Secret, my first view of speaking Christ as the only life we are. After that I wrote weekly letters for my email list on various topics, all of which I finally cobbled together into books of similar themes. These texts are my first path into the knowledge of God in us. |
The following "Lessons" are different attempts to explain the background or sources out from which I write or to explain what you will find in my various books.
The Premises from which I Write is an explanation of some of the sources of my understanding of the Christian experience (written prior to the fall of 2011).
What I Believe: I is the list of "rules of Christian thinking," words from God by which we humans are designed, a list that I brought to completion in writing Knowing Jesus as He Is.
A Current Account of My Writing is an explanation of each of my books in order, what each contains and why I wrote it. It includes some I am working on but have not finished. (Written in June of 2019).
What I Believe: II is a layout of 100 "points" setting forth "what I believe." Although I created this list with my first website, it remains current to my present understanding. This is NOT the Nicene Creed, but what I actually believe out from what God actually says.
I write in order to learn. I must know what God actually says in the Bible and especially in the gospel, and I must have Him show me by His Spirit what He actually means by what He says. Knowing Jesus is the only life there is; I must live. Most of what is on this website is simply my attempt to learn by writing. For that reason, most of the articles are long. I begin an article with something I know God must teach me, not knowing for sure what that is. And thus I continue writing until what I know inside that God has for me has come into view. Very often, the best part of any letter or chapter is near the end. The articles on this website are, primarily, rough drafts. The printed books contain a more edited version of them. Because I write to learn, my understanding of God and of what He says in the Bible has grown over time. Some things have only deepened in my understanding, but other things have shifted just a bit as I have learned to see all things out from Life alone. Nonetheless, Salvation is, in part, a journey out of wrong thinking and seeing and into seeing all things through Jesus' eyes. For that reason, I do not change my earlier writing even if my understanding has changed a bit. Others are on the same path and Jesus will speak to them what He wishes as He has done with me. But I have learned something along the way. Most Christian teaching is an attempt to use the verses of the Bible in order to answer the wrong questions. To someone who insists on knowing what God actually says, however, such use of the Bible is frustrating, even if the teaching is "good." Then, as I look at my earlier writing (primarily the Our Path Home set of books), I see that sometimes I was attempting to answer questions that have now vanished from my mind as having any meaning at all. Nonetheless, the teaching is "good" in our journey to know the Lord. |
Learning to TeachSeeing all things out from the Tree of Life, that is, out from living inside of Jesus alone, requires a change of thinking regarding everything. That change does not happen overnight. |