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Abundant Food

By samuel | Published: April 11, 2008
“Abun­dant food is in the fal­low ground of the poor, But it is swept away by injus­tice. ” ~Proverbs 13:23 Cur­rently I’m read­ing books about Agri­cul­ture. One is “Sepp Holzer: The Rebel Farmer”, another is “Edi­ble For­est Gar­dens: Eco­log­i­cal Vision and The­ory for Tem­per­ate Cli­mate Per­ma­cul­ture.” As you can prob­a­bly tell from the titles, the first is [...]
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Brush off those old scales

By samuel | Published: October 12, 2007
Nat­u­rally gifted with a strong reli­gious ten­dency, he had, since his first mar­riage, taken, not to denial, but to the side of objec­tion, spend­ing much energy in con­tempt for the fool­ish opin­ions of oth­ers, a self-indulgence which does less than lit­tle to fur­ther the growth of one’s own spirit in truth and right­eous­ness. The only [...]
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The Triumph, Peace, and Power of True Christianity

By samuel | Published: September 26, 2007
I am pleased to present “The Tri­umph, Peace, and Power of True Chris­tian­ity”, An Early Anabap­tist Tract on Defence­less­ness and Fidelity to Christ, by Pil­gram Marpeck. He was a true Chris­t­ian in the tur­bu­lent 16th cen­tury, when Protes­tants killed Catholics, Catholics killed Protes­tants, and both killed and per­se­cuted the Anabaptists. Read “Tri­umph”. (pdf ver­sion) Good quotes: “Is [...]
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How the Methodists Saved America

By samuel | Published: August 17, 2007
by Mike Atnip ~ http://www.elcristianismoprimitivo.com/english_index.htm Where one prob­lem lies, espe­cially in “sec­ond gen­er­a­tion” Chris­tian­ity, is that the sec­ond com­mand­ment is held higher than the first. And, if a man or woman walks in moral­ity, he is accounted as a fine Chris­t­ian: despite the fact that he walks more or less pleas­ing the desires of his body, [...]
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