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Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity;
therefore God, even thy God,
hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
–Hebrews 1:9 (KJV)–

³ But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; ⁴ neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. ⁵ For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. ⁷ Therefore do not be partakers with them.
–Ephesians 5:3-7 (NKJV)–

⁵ Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ⁶ Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, ⁷ in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them. ⁸ But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. ⁹ Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, ¹⁰ and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, ¹¹ where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.
–Colossians 3:5-11 (NKJV)–

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PURITAN BOOKS ON HOLINESS (The Banner of Truth Trust).

WESLEYAN BOOKS ON HOLINESS (Schmul Publishing).

New day springs light on the burdened, the downcast
My past lingers to define the outcast
I long for the coming of chapter two
To put an end to this cycle of backlash
Now I start where the last chapter ended
But the veil has been lifted, my thoughts are sifted
Every wrong is righted
The new song I sing with every breath, breathes sight in

So let Your face consume my mind, right

Hair standing on end, its sent forth
Is this the end I was always meant for?
I still long for the taste of better days long ago
Long past, so dead to me but yet
Here it is in the palm of my hand to see
As I witness the birth of a new beginning
I sense it breathing, I feel it seething
I see my fear begin fading

Breathe on me for my new beginning

–Project 86, “Chapter 2”–

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Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!
–Mark 9:24 (NKJV)–

According to your faith let it be to you.
–Matthew 9:29 (NKJV)–

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Dr. Jack Deere, Why I Am Still Surprised by the Voice of God (Zondervan, 2022).

Henry Blackaby, Hearing God’s Voice (B&H Books, 2002).

Ryan Denton, Dead Orthodoxy and Its Cure (Aneko Press, 2025).

¹ The Ephraimite forces were called out, and they crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why did you go to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We’re going to burn down your house over your head.”

² Jephthah answered, “I and my people were engaged in a great struggle with the Ammonites, and although I called, you didn’t save me out of their hands. ³ When I saw that you wouldn’t help, I took my life in my hands and crossed over to fight the Ammonites, and the Lord gave me the victory over them. Now why have you come up today to fight me?”

⁴ Jephthah then called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites are renegades from Ephraim and Manasseh.” ⁵ The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, “Let me cross over,” the men of Gilead asked him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he replied, “No,” ⁶ they said, “All right, say ‘Shibboleth.’” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time. –Judges 12:1-6 (NIV)

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Mack Tomlinson, In Light of Eternity: The Life of Leonard Ravenhill (Free Grace, 2010).

A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God (Christian Publications, 1982).

REBUKE THEM SHARPLY, that they may be sound in the faith. –Titus 1:13 (KJV)

OPEN REBUKE is better than secret love. –Proverbs 27:5 (KJV)

CRY ALOUD, SPARE NOT, LIFT UP THY VOICE LIKE A TRUMPET, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their SINS! –Isaiah 58:1 (KJV)

O GENERATION OF VIPERS, who hath WARNED YOU to FLEE FROM THE WRATH TO COME!? –Matthew 3:7 (KJV)

WOE UNTO YOU, scribes and Pharisees, HYPOCRITES!   –Matthew 23:13 (KJV)

THOU CHILD OF THE DEVIL, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to PERVERT THE RIGHT WAYS OF THE LORD!? –Acts 13:10 (KJV)

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather REPROVE THEM. –Ephesians 5:11 (KJV)

If THE WATCHMAN see the sword come, and blow not THE TRUMPET, and THE PEOPLE BE NOT WARNED; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but HIS BLOOD WILL I REQUIRE AT THE WATCHMAN’S HAND. So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and WARN THEM FROM ME. –Ezekiel 33:6-7 (KJV)

His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb DOGS, they cannot BARK; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. –Isaiah 56:10 (KJV)   [The reverse implies that faithful preachers are like good sheepdogs that bark about sin and Hell to warn of danger.]

GODLY SORROW WORKETH REPENTANCE TO SALVATION not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.   –2 Corinthians 7:10-11 (KJV)

Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, TRULY THIS IS A GRIEF, AND I MUST BEAR IT. –Jeremiah 10:19 (KJV)

When they heard this, THEY WERE PRICKED IN THEIR HEART, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?   –Acts 2:37 (KJV)

I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But HIS WORD WAS IN MINE HEART AS A BURNING FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.   –Jeremiah 20:9 (KJV)

After my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I CEASED NOT TO WARN EVERY ONE NIGHT AND DAY WITH TEARS. –Acts 20:29-31 (KJV)

GRIEVE not the Holy Spirit of God. –Ephesians 4:30 (KJV)

Since ye say, THE BURDEN OF THE LORD; therefore thus saith the Lord; Because ye say this word, The burden of the Lord, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the Lord. –Jeremiah 23:38 (KJV)

A man of sorrows, and ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF…he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows…HE HATH PUT HIM TO GRIEF. –Isaiah 53:3-4, 10 (KJV)

Woe to them that are at ease in Zion! –Amos 6:1 (KJV)

Do you feel the way you hate?
Do you hate the way you feel?
Always closer to the flame, ever closer to the blade.
I am poison crazy lush.
Built these hands to lift me up.
We are servants of our formulaic ways.
I’m screaming daisies.
From fourteen miles away.
I’ve got my own time, got it all today.
Make up your mind, need some help to find this mind, mind, mind.
Limbo this and limbo that.
You were this and you were that.
Ever know that what you fear is what you find.
This Indian summer I signed my life away.
There’s a greedy fly in here and I fly away.
Make up your mind, need some help to find this mind, mind, mind.
Make up your mind, need some help to find this mind, mind, mind.
Make up your mind, need some help to find this mind, mind, mind.
Mind, mind, mind, mind, mind, mind.

–Bush, “Greedy Fly”–

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.
–Luke 4:18 (ESV)–

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Dr. Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were (Zondervan, 1986), chs. 2, 4. A brief overview of Puritan theology on business, money, and work.

Dr. John R. Rice, The Unequal Yoke (Sword of the Lord, 1946). A strong argument against closely working with and closely befriending unsaved people.

Arthur Gish, Beyond the Rat Race (Herald Press, 1973). Teaches Biblical self-employment. Heavily critical of materialism and the modern Republican system of capitalist values.

Richard Steele, The Religious Tradesman (Sprinkle Publications, 1989). Teaches Biblical self-employment from a seventeenth century Puritan point of view.

Richard Baxter, Chapters from A Christian Directory (G. Bell & Sons, 1925). A Puritan theology of business and finance.

Larry Burkett, The Word on Finances (Moody, 1994). A directory of Bible verses on economic subjects.

Grant Sabatier, Financial Freedom (Avery, 2019). Teaches 100% remote work with W-2 full-time plus 1099s on the side.

John Schneider, Godly Materialism: Rethinking Money and Possessions (InterVarsity Press, 1994). Overall Bible teaching on money.

An urgent exhortation for Bible believing
Reformed continuationists to eagerly seek God’s Spirit in prayer.
–J.B.–

Tracing our lineage back to Adam and Eve: I do believe in the literal 6,000 years. But there may have been a time that dinosaurs lived for a period of time on the earth, maybe even MILLIONS OF YEARS, and even coexisted with man, and were wiped out in the Flood.
–Todd Bentley, 7:03–

You read these stories of celebrities and they have it all. I can understand that guy! I can understand that movie star that has everything you could ever want and JUST CAN’T STOP DRINKING OR PARTYING. It’s like they throw away their success. They blow it up; and I WAS LIKE THAT, but it happened to be IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD.
–Todd Bentley, 52:01–

Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.           
–Jeremiah 6:16 (KJV)–

Don’t pacify spiritual
Teach me to be me in Christ
Origin of consciousness
Spiritual
I am not what meets the eye

–Living Sacrifice, “Something More”–

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Jeff Doles, Miracles and Manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the History of the Church, ch. 7.

Jack Deere, Why I Am Still Surprised by the Voice of God, ch. 3.

Bernard McGinn, Mysticism in the Reformation.

Stanley Burgess, The Holy Spirit: Medieval Roman Catholic and Reformation Traditions, Part 7: “The Radical Reformers.”

GEORGE WISHART (1513-1546).
Scottish reformer and martyr. Wishart preaching against Mariolatry. Oil on canvas, English, c1857, by Sir William Fettes Douglas (1822-1891)