We must abide in Jesus and His presence to operate fully in the seven functions of the Holy Spirit. Everything flows out of the anointing—out of the branch. That branch is Jesus. Keith Miller

A splendid morning for riding, although the mornings are getting quite cool.

We ache, thirst, hunger, and yearn for it. The only thing that will satiate, fill, and satisfy is deep intimacy and communion with Him. Keith Miller

Put another way, details in certain New Testament passages with links to the Genesis 6:1–4 episode can only be traced to 1 Enoch, and those elements in turn are quite consistent with the original Mesopotamian context of Genesis 6:1–4. Michael Heiser

Cool morning just 13 degrees but the sun is shining and the fields are green.

We can either have a big state and a small god or we can have a big God and a small state. Jerry Bowyer

The difference between Galilee and Judea was not that the people of Galilee were inherently better people. They were of the same stock. The difference is the Galileans did not have much access to the levers of power. Most of them ate bread by the sweat of their brow, because they had no alternative. Jerry Bowyer

A beautiful morning in Narrabri. The rain has moved on and the clouds are clearing.

This means that any follower of Jesus who wants to assert any ideology that requires concentrations of power in the state must first show us why those who operate the levers of power in our time will do it less selfishly than those who pulled those levers in Jesus’s time. 

Another overcast morning. Heavy rain and flooding on the coast are threatening to spill over the mountains. No showers here… yet 😊