An evening walk across Regent Parkway in Fort Mill, SC, through the park and into the trail through the woods.
I am looking for the sunset through the hills and the trees.
Posted for Pepper’s One Step at a Time.
Trail: Evening Walk
Cosmic Photo Challenge: From the Ground Up
Dale offers the prompt “from the ground up” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I figured I better take or find pictures where I am standing on the ground looking up.
This is what I came up with.
Ten Things of Thankful: August 15, 2026
I am thankful to the Lord for everything mentioned below and all of His other blessings.
The photos tell their tales with the help of captions.
Six Sentence Story: How Things Got Complicated
Joe was Beth’s backup plan when she spent the weekend with Mark not knowing that she was Mark’s backup plan, because Jane, Mark’s plan, had more backup plans than her scheduling software could consistently manage.
Eventually Joe found out about Mark and Beth found out about Jane.
Then Joe replaced Beth with Kate and Mark, unsure what to do, figured he better get rid of Beth to avoid conflict with Joe which all happened about the time Jane decided to get rid of him anyway, because – well – because everyone was all of a sudden becoming too miserable for her to live with.
And then things got worse, like an out-of-control forest fire, even for Jane whose remaining backup plans found out they were backups when she could no longer keep their names straight. And then it got so bad that six sentences were not enough to do it justice.
And that’s how things got complicated.
Denise offers the prompt word “fire” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
John 1:1
Six Sentence Story: The Quiet Hours
After I stood to say goodbye to Lou and the tall, thin man walked him to the door, I sat down to finish my coffee noticing that the quiet hours were beginning when the Gatekeeper would play music outside the Six Sentence Cafe & Bistro. Thinking of that new dancer, Holli Spirit, at Lou’s club got me wondering if I could work her into the storyline somehow until I heard a snort come from the voice.
“Weren’t you the one running my mouth like it was on fire when I was talking to Lou?” I asked him.
You didn’t shut me up, did you?
“I almost did.”
I know, but what counts is you didn’t.
Denise offers the prompt word “fire” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Trail: Green Covered Pond
After the rains this pond appears to have turned a pretty green color.
This is just off one of the Regent Parkway residential communities in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Posted for Pepper’s One Step at a Time.
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Cosmic Photo Challenge: Shooting Through
Dale offers the prompt “shooting through” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I have a few photos from the past that have stayed in my memory.
All of these were taken within the last year.
Ten Things of Thankful: August 8, 2026
I am thankful to the Lord for everything mentioned below and all of His other blessings.
The photos tell their tales with the help of captions.
Biblical Patriarchy Against the Feminization of the Church
My gut feeling on the patriarchy is that it is biblical and my gut feeling on the feminization of the church is that it is not biblical. However, I didn’t understand what the issues really were nor would I have been able to justify those gut feelings until I listened to some of Mike Richter’s videos at The Heroes’ Forge. The theme of The Heroes’ Forge is “Men want to be heroes, and women want to be with heroes.”
The history of the feminization of the Church as Mike Richter outlines it in the video below begins with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1848. Today, the feminized alternatives to biblical patriarchy fall under terms like the covertly feminized variations of “complementarianism” or the overtly feminized variations of “egalitarianism”.
What makes the various positions of complementarianism and egalitarianism unbiblical are verses, such as, Ephesians 3:14-15, Acts 2:29, Hebrews 7:4, Matthew 6:9, Genesis 2:7, 22, 1 Timothy 2:12-14, Genesis 18:19, Ephesians 5:22-24, and Matthew 7:16. Mike Richter refers to these verses in the video below beginning at 13:48 showing how they stand as a rebuke against the feminized church.
This Is a Test
Are you defensive about those verses above when they refer to “patriarch” or God as “Father” or when they talk about a wife’s submission to her husband or a husband’s responsibility as head of his family or that there are consequences when these verses are ignored that are seen in the fruit of a family’s life? Do you realize that these verses are not optional?
If you need to repent, now is always the best time to do so.
The feminization of the Church has much in common with Darwinian and big bang evolution: They are all a corruption of Genesis 1-11.
They were introduced over the last few hundred years to undermine biblical Christianity while fooling Christians who followed them into thinking that they were still “biblical” or still “full gospel”. Many of these now Christian-in-name-only feminized therapy organizations capitulated to become the institutional “church” we see today.
Below Mike Richter interviews David Edgington. It is a continuation of the topics covered above.
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Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 