Category Archives: deception

I Admire People Who Seek to Live Beyond Deception

Posted on May 3, 2025 by Steve Simms

It’s easy to think that something is true with it isn’t. Often the truth is obscure or hidden and all we are left with is the fallibility of our feelings, desires, and opinions. No one is immune to deception. There … Continue reading →

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I Enjoy Reading Words That Uncover My Deception

Posted on January 25, 2025 by Steve Simms

I once found a book that uncovers my deception when I read it with an open heart. Reading that book is like standing in the shower and letting very hot water run over your aching back. It hurts but if … Continue reading →

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The Art of Readjusting Definitions to Reality

Posted on October 6, 2024 by Steve Simms

It’s easy to distort definitions and change the meaning of words in an attempt to justify our own opinions, desires, feelings, and behaviors. However, to do so is often a departure from reality. Spirit-led artists can help us get back … Continue reading →

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Popular Culture and Contemporary Religion Are Both Denying Much That Is Self-Evident,

Posted on June 19, 2024 by Steve Simms

In the Gospels, Jesus warned His followers to beware of false prophets. That’s a warning that Christians seem to ignore today. Almost anybody who says he or she is a Christian minister and starts a church or buys radio or … Continue reading →

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Obvious Observations We Often Overlook (OOWOO)

Posted on September 15, 2023 by Steve Simms

Obviously, it’s important not to overlook the obvious, but we often do. Here are some obvious observations we often overlook (OOWOO). Life is amazing. Planet earth is beautiful. Good and bad are in every human heart. Our desires and feelings … Continue reading →

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God sees thru the disguise of your lies!

Posted on September 11, 2023 by Steve Simms

God sees through the lies of your disguise. Lies, regardless of their size, are deceptive. Deception deploys darkness and destroys our ability to discern and walk in truth. As Christ-followers we need to be careful that we don’t deny the … Continue reading →

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Living high on the hype plane

Posted on July 12, 2023 by Steve Simms

Hype hampers the perception of truth. Honesty is heroic. Hype is heads toward hypocrisy. Following your own desires and feelings isn’t the hype it pretends to be. Hype tries to make fake feel fresh baked. “Hype-iness” isn’t happiness! Hype is … Continue reading →

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Do you realize your desires contain real lies?

Posted on June 25, 2023 by Steve Simms

Unless we realizeThat our feelings,Thoughts, and desiresContain real liesWe’ll be misledBy their false disguise. No matter how muchWe’ve been taughtUntil we’ve soughtAnd bravely foughtTo make every thoughtObedient to ChristWe’ll be caughtIn deception. To be led by the SpiritIs to do … Continue reading →

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The vibrance of spiritually spontaneous Christianity

Posted on August 29, 2018 by Steve Simms

When Spirit-filled Christianity stops allowing spontaneity and succumbs to structure and systemization it soon gets stale. When every faithful Christ-follower is recognized as a priest of the living God, Christianity will be revolutionized! God’s voice, heard without ears, but with your … Continue reading →

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Take time to align

Posted on May 27, 2017 by Steve Simms

Unless we align with God, we’ll be forever off course. Francis Grimke (an early American Civil Rights leader in 1919) put it like this: “The great spiritual need of man is to get rid of sin, to get out from … Continue reading →

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