Pete Elliott

Thinking about Jesus in the Chaos

Scripture

  • A Bitterness unto Death

    “The heart knows its own bitterness…” – Proverbs 14:10 Social media has immense power to cultivate bitterness in the human soul. For most of history, people wrestled primarily with local frustrations, local enemies, and local envy. Now, through mass media, we are exposed daily to the anger, success, outrage, opinions, and conflicts of millions of…

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  • Folding the Laundry

    Today is my beautiful wife’s, Stephanie Augusta Elliott’s, birthday. The more I think about her and all of her amazing qualities and virtues, I realize that I value her birthday infinitely more than mine. For, birthdays are a celebration of an individual’s life, and I would much rather celebrate my wife’s life than my own.…

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  • The Glory of the Gods

    What if I told you I was a Greek god? What if I told you that people offered sacrifices of food and libations to me? Well, it is true. Let me explain. In Greek mythology, gods were built temples in which human subjects would bring offerings of food, drink, and incense. Greek citizens would try…

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