We often are stuck experiencing a 1 or 2 dimensional joy.

I want 3 dimensional joy. Perhaps the 3rd dimension is rest…

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Welcome to… Confessions & Reflections of One Untimely Reformed:

One thing is needed. When obtained, is it meant to be protected from itself? Because that’s precisely what I learned growing up Baptist. Don’t misunderstand me. Baptists, rhetorically, are not against the beauty of covenants. And I still am one. We make and keep covenant in the Christian Body. But the monergistic strength was not emphasized. That is what I’m coming late to understand.

(I’m coming back to this. It’s nonsense currently) To Read into the text is to live within yourself to get out of yourself if you get in earlier in Christ. So, three dimensional joy sees by being further up, a little higher up the mountain gazing down upon the flat pages below. You’re at a higher vantage point where one can see more, enjoy a landscape revealing greater glory and greater glory … I’m not further in yet, but I am further up; to be further in, that must be the fourth dimension yet unseen and unheard.

Mark Mulnix 5/16/25 Mark Mulnix 5/16/25

Trees Of Eden

God transforms his children from trees of exile into trees of Eden planted by the great river bank. “Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.” (Ez. 47:12).

Ultimate peace will not be found in the word of a friend. We will not be so easily satisfied. But they will spur us on. They’ll help us cross the finish line. The Peace we shall know then, all encouragements will have only hinted at. It is because they hint at it that they are good.

Mark Mulnix 4/27/25 Mark Mulnix 4/27/25

Merry Thanksgiving!

Only by faith do these realities begin to have true meaning and sit on a foundation you can build a life of gratitude on.

Mark Mulnix 11/19/24 Mark Mulnix 11/19/24

Day of Obedience

I’ve just baptized my daughter today. We had much joy and laughter with some tears. The LORD is good to us. He is faithfully bringing us along.

And now we must live in faithfulness to the baptism we’ve received.

Mark Mulnix 6/1/24 Mark Mulnix 6/1/24

For An Everlasting Covenant

That’s the joy I’m exploring… seeing faith as participation in the Person of our faith. His covenantal power is diminished when I make it about my individual decision to accept him. Instead I want to see His world-engulfing water (the knowledge of the Lord) as the growing history which I am now swimming in through the faith of my ancestors passed on by faith (“from faith to faith”).