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rbaxter

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Sharing Snaps and Waves about the inner life and external duties such as domestic, ecclesiastic, and civic.

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rbaxter
@hive-as-mission Jun 14, 2026, 5:34 AM UTC

Curating the Top 10 Stakers: A BBHO Curation Strategy

It is my first time deviating from my focused content. I originally created this account with the goal of completing my reading and reflection of Richard Baxter's The Christian Directory. This massiv…

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@hive-as-mission May 3, 2026, 12:51 PM UTC

Instruction in Counseling: Biblical and Accurate

This is a cross post of @rzc24-nftbbg/instruction-in-counseling-biblical-and-accurate by @hive-as-mission.Why is it important that instruction be based on the Bible, be accurate, and be appropriate?…

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@hive-as-mission Mar 28, 2026, 3:21 PM UTC

The Path to Saving Grace: 20 Directions from Richard Baxter

I want to recap all my snaps related to part 1 of chapter 1 of Richard Baxter's Christian Ethics. This part contains 20 spiritual directions for those who need saving grace. The reason why I want to…

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@hive-as-mission Feb 11, 2026, 5:04 PM UTC

The Breath of the Soul: Countering Sin through the 7 Means of Grace

This is a cross post of @hive-as-mission/the-breath-of-the-soul-countering-sin-through-the-7-means-of-grace by @hive-as-mission.What type of company do I keep? Are my relationships nurturing my spiri…

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@hive-as-mission Feb 7, 2026, 12:15 PM UTC

The Breath of the Soul: Countering Sin through the 7 Means of Grace

The last article I published was more than a month ago. It is about self-examination and spiritual honesty as essential steps toward accepting the grace of God. I emphasized the need to be honest wit…

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@hive-as-mission Dec 30, 2025, 4:46 PM UTC

Painful Honesty Before Grace: Self-Examination, Resistance, and the Weighing of the Soul

Source Five days ago, I wrote the introduction to the recapitulation of directions 8 and 9 in Baxter's Christian Ethics. However, as I keep reading the book, I observe that direction 11 could be adde…

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@hive-as-mission Dec 25, 2025, 5:01 AM UTC

Why I’m Reading a 17th-Century Puritan on a Web3 Platform

After 13 days of sharing snaps and waves about the inner life, I consider it appropriate to do a recap of directions 8 and 9. I recognized that in the Web2 platform, content related to politics, reli…

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@hive-as-mission Dec 16, 2025, 9:57 AM UTC

Why Men Who Need Saving Grace Must Read and Hear the Word of God

This is supposed to be a Snap, but again the idea is difficult to contain. Unavoidably, I am forced to write an extended article about this subject matter. The topic is about the exposition of direct…

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@hive-as-mission Dec 13, 2025, 4:20 PM UTC

The Deadly Substitution: Trading Earthly Wisdom for Eternal Folly

Here is another idea that cannot be contained by a short Snap and Wave. Source It is a long quote about knowledge taken from Baxter’s old book. In it, he argues the utility of knowledge. Of course, n…

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@hive-as-mission Dec 12, 2025, 11:59 AM UTC

The Creator’s Law and Our Accountability

Photo Credit I tried my best to limit the number of words in creating a Wave on Ecency. However, it seems not possible to express the idea of the author in a short Wave. Advised by the platform, I de…

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