# eternal life (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover eternal life. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Silent Sermon](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/the-silent-sermon) _2026-08-22 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ The heavens have been preaching since the first morning. They have not paused once. ## [Yes, Postpartum Mental Illness is Real](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/08/yes-postpartum-mental-illness-is-real/) _2026-08-21 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ I just want to say that postpartum depression is real. All kinds of postpartum mental illness are real. And often, the way we respond to them makes it worse. This is so obvious it should go without saying. But in today’s news cycle, I see a whole lot of trolls on social media \[…\] ## [The Ache That Points](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/the-ache-that-points) _2026-08-21 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ Something in you has been searching for longer than you know. Not for the next thing. For the first thing. The thing everything else was always a substitute for. ## [Seven Billion Dollars](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/seven-billion-dollars) _2026-08-20 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ Someone had a $7 billion debt cancelled. Then went looking for the man who owed him $12,000. ## [Chosen at the Water](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/chosen-at-the-water) _2026-08-19 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ Nobody knew it was a test. Ten thousand soldiers came down to a spring to drink. They were being watched. ## [The American Pro-Life Movement Lied. Now What?](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/08/the-american-pro-life-movement-lied-now-what/) _2026-08-18 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ Abortion rates in the United States have gone up 21%. Yes, I’m going to break my moratorium on talking about the pro-life movement for a minute. I’ll be getting all these statistics from The Guttmacher Institute. Rates of abortions in this country reliably fell, no matter who was president, from 1981 until around 2017. \[…\] ## [Who Is Riding on Your Back?](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/who-is-riding-on-your-back) _2026-08-18 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ When God chose an animal for His Son’s entrance into Jerusalem, He chose a donkey. He was holding up a mirror, asking us to turn and look at our own backs. ## [Eyes Full of Love](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/eyes-full-of-love) _2026-08-17 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ Heaven is full of eyes. And they never look away. ## [Where Is My Fruit?](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/where-is-my-fruit) _2026-08-16 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ By now, you thought there would be more fruit. Jesus says the seed was never the problem. Look at the ground. ## [Even If Not](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/even-if-not) _2026-08-15 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ If Jesus knew He would rise, does that change what the cross cost Him? One faith says: I trust You because You will come through. The other says something harder. ## [Dissecting Series A Rounds (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/UoEq1oh4Yv5E) _2026-08-15 · **Sponsored**_ Two real Series A cases: timelines, investor sequencing, and common founder mistakes. ## [Everywhere I Look, I See Your Face](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/08/everywhere-i-look-i-see-your-face/) _2026-08-15 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ It was the busiest week of the year. I was helping out at the back-to-school summer day camp for the church outreach near my house. Most of the time, I only volunteer there a few days a week. But this time, I spent every afternoon for five days zooming back and forth between classrooms, \[…\] ## [My God, My God (Part Two: The Answer)](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/my-god-my-god-part-two-the-answer) _2026-08-14 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ We have all prayed into silence. Jesus went there first. ## [Why Have You Forsaken Me (Part One: The Cry)](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/why-have-you-forsaken-me-part-one) _2026-08-13 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ Did God abandon Jesus on the cross? And will He abandon us too? ## [The Last Fear](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/the-last-fear) _2026-08-12 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ We are afraid of many things. But follow any of them far enough down and there it is: death, and the question what then? ## [Do You Want to Be Well?](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/do-you-want-to-be-well) _2026-08-11 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ Love does not heal from a distance. It walks toward the one who has been waiting the longest. ## [Theology of the Tomato Time](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/08/theology-of-the-tomato-time/) _2026-08-11 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ It’s the time of year that I call ”the tomato glut.” Tomato vines are strange, uncanny plants. I think they could take over the world if given half a chance. If you cut a small stem, called a “sucker,” off a tomato plant and stick it in a glass of water, it will grow \[…\] ## [The One Thing He Waited For](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/the-one-thing-he-waited-for) _2026-08-10 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ He could have wired love into us like gravity into stone. He chose not to. ## [The Works Not Yet Displayed](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/the-works-not-yet-displayed) _2026-08-09 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ The places we have given up on are the places He has never left. ## [Love Doesn’t Ask Why](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/love-doesnt-ask-why) _2026-08-08 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ The first thing love refuses to do is look for someone to blame. ## [The Condition of Love](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/the-condition-of-love) _2026-08-07 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ He could have made us love Him. He chose not to. That was not a mistake. ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/s40xiFVV1Eq2) _2026-08-07 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [Give Me This Hill Country](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/give-me-this-hill-country) _2026-08-06 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ The most dangerous prayer you can pray is the one that asks for the hardest thing. ## [They Are Our Bread](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/they-are-our-bread) _2026-08-05 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ Same giants. Two reports. The difference was never the giants. ## [On Loaves, on Fish, on Grief, on Healing](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/08/on-loaves-on-fish-on-grief-on-healing/) _2026-08-04 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew: When Jesus heard of the death of John the Baptist, he withdrew in a boat to a deserted place by himself. The crowds heard of this and followed him on foot from their towns. When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved \[…\] ## [Sun, Stand Still](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/sun-stand-still) _2026-08-04 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ The outcome of every battle is decided before the first blow is struck. ## [The Holy Thing You Buried](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/the-holy-thing-you-buried) _2026-08-03 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ The most dangerous thing you can hide is something God has already claimed. ## [The Seventh Day](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/the-seventh-day) _2026-08-02 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ The walls do not fall on the first day. They fall on the seventh. ## [Before the Waters Part](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/before-the-waters-part) _2026-08-01 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ The water does not move until you step in. ## [She Only Heard](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/she-only-heard) _2026-07-31 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ Some people see and still do not believe. Rahab only heard and believed. ## [On Sunshine, Happiness, And Eternal Life](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/07/on-sunshine-happiness-and-eternal-life/) _2026-07-31 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ I was happy in the sunshine today. I went to Toronto, the little town north of Steubenville, which has a glorious clean outdoor pool. The hours between ten and noon are their adult swim, where patrons over 18 can swim laps without the crowds and noise of the children who come later in the \[…\] ## [This Is Eternal Life](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/this-is-eternal-life) _2026-07-30 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ Eternal life does not begin when you die. It has already begun. ## [Web Coding With AI, Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/zN1oKXoMP8pU) _2026-07-30 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control, open source. ## [More Than You Ask](https://bibleportal.substack.com/p/more-than-you-ask) _2026-07-29 · Bible Portal · Bible Portal_ The most transforming thing you can do for someone is believe they are capable of more. ## [Wild Grapes, Wild Poison](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/07/wild-grapes-wild-poison/) _2026-07-29 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ It started with a spat over poison ivy. Jimmy’s boy came by to inspect the garden. The garden is getting exciting. The cherry tomatoes are ripening first, and the paste and slicing tomatoes are so laden with green fruit that the cages are toppling over. I have never had a crop like this. If \[…\] ## [There Have Always Been Two Churches](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/07/there-have-always-been-two-churches/) _2026-07-26 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ Sometimes I feel so well that I forget that I’m not. It was just another day. That’s the way days are now. I used to feel terrible, most of the time, but the past few years have been relatively happy and uneventful. I’ve been at peace with myself, more often than not. I was at \[…\] ## [How Does A Seed Grow? How Does the Kingdom of Heaven?](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/07/how-does-a-seed-grow-how-does-the-kingdom-of-heaven/) _2026-07-24 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ He proposed another parable to them. “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in a field. It is the smallest of all the seeds, yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants. It becomes a large bush, and the ‘birds of the sky come and \[…\] ## [While Waiting on the Weeds and Wheat](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/07/while-waiting-on-the-weeds-and-wheat/) _2026-07-22 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off. When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well. The slaves of the householder came to him \[…\] ## [As the Mountains Disappeared](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/07/as-the-mountains-disappeared/) _2026-07-18 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ The nightmare began when I was sleeping, and it didn’t end when I woke up. I dreamed I was fighting my way through a maze of dirty rooms in a dank basement that went on forever. There were other creatures in there with me that looked like people, but they weren’t. They were demons who \[…\]