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10/29/2025 – “A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of one’s death than the day of one’s birth.” Ecclesiastes 7:1

The Man in The Dungeon

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

If you went to the castle of Herod Antipas at the beginning of the fourth decade of the first century, you would find …

10/27/2025: “Forever’s Start” by Madeleine L’Engle

Forever’s StartThe days are growing noticeably shorter; the nights are longer, deeper, colder. Today the sun did not rise as high in the sky as it did yesterday. Tomorrow it …

10/24/2025 – “Self renunciation is the first step to saving faith.” St. Augustine. (354 a.d. – 430 a.d.)

St. Augustine biography:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine

10/13/2025 – “Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling — feelings don’t help much when you’re in the lions’ den or hanging on a wooden Cross.” Elizabeth Elliott (1926 – 2015) – bio link below

https://www.museumofthebible.org/magazine/exhibitions/through-gates-of-splendor-the-elisabeth-elliot-story

Soli Deo Gloria indeed!

10/08/2025 – “The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. God’s one aim is the production of saints. He is not an eternal blessing machine for men; he did not come to save men out of pity; he came to save men because he had created them to be holy.” Oswald Chambers from “My Utmost for His Highest” daily devotional (Comment below)

I’ve noted this before: Priorities for us for the remainder of our life in this world, just a relative breath, literally the mathematically limit approaching -0- in length as …

10/02/2022 – BabylonBee: “7 most terrifying consequences of a government shutdown.”

https://babylonbee.com/news/7-most-terrifying-consequences-of-a-government-shutdown

09/28/2025 – “I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it.  But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves.  For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand.  For I believe this also, that ‘unless I believe, I shall not understand.'” Saint Anselm (A.D. 1033-1109)- “Proslogian” – Chapter One /

https://www.anselmsociety.org/blog/2021/7/25/who-is-anselm

Soli Deo Gloria!

09/03/2025 – “If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.” Thomas More (by way of “thepourover.com”)

Soli Deo Gloria!

08/31/2029 – “The Lord is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid?” (Psalm 27:1)

Soli Deo Gloria!