Raised to Walk

03/16/2026

It seems there is always some new way that scammers use to attack. This is one of them

Most of us know to lock our doors and stay alert in public. But when we're sitting at home or in our office browsing the internet, our guard goes down.

That's exactly what cybercriminals are counting on.

In our recent article on digital identity protection, we cover one of the latest online threats — ClickFix — a technique that tricks you into authorizing a malicious attack yourself. No suspicious attachments. No obvious red flags. Just a fake error message and one command that opens the door.

If you own a business and your website, email, or domain is central to how you operate — this one's worth reading.

🔗 https://legacymarketingservices.com/digital-identity/clickfix-dns-attack-what-it-means-for-your-business/

11/28/2025

Today is known as in the US. We go from a day that we say we are thankful for our blessings and then go out and acquire more.

Black Friday is a day for shopping, finding deals, and getting the most for the very least possible.

This isn't a rant against capitalism, although I do think it should be a time of reflection on priorities. I just think we maybe should take a moment to answer the question, "Is all this stuff actually going to be used?""

Because this Bible wasn't.

This is the Living Bible Translation from Tyndale.

I've done a number of videos on the NEW Living Translation Bible ... this is its predecessor.

I also mentioned in some of those video reviews on the NLT that my mom had a copy of the Living Bible with the green cover.

It was like this, just like this.

I picked this Bible up in a thrift store for $1.95.

This was printed in 1971 ... 1971, it's almost as old as I am ... and in half a century, it has never been opened.

I can tell. There's not a crinkle on a single page, and the pages had to be parted.

How long was this sitting on someone's shelf, or maybe on a ☕️ coffee table for display, before it was dropped off at the mission thrift store?

Never opened, never examined.

I think that is often true of Christianity today in the US. Nomination. Normative. Comfortable. Closed and boxed in.

For display.

Heaven forbid the Holy Spirit actually break out and through.

What's your take? Do you think we sometimes treat our faith like a decoration rather than something we actually live out? Drop your thoughts below. 👇

11/24/2025

When Comfort Becomes Condemnation: What Job 16-17 Teaches Us About Suffering, Hope, and the Intercessor We Didn't Know We Needed

"I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you!" - Job 16:2

Have you ever been in pain and had someone's "comfort" make things worse?

Maybe they said:
• "God must be teaching you something"
• "You must have unconfessed sin"
• "Everything happens for a reason"
• "Just have more faith"

Job's friends came to comfort him after he lost his children, his wealth, and his health. They sat with him in silence for seven days—which was beautiful. But then they opened their mouths and everything went downhill. They became what Job called "miserable comforters."

But Job 16-17 reveals something far more profound than just bad pastoral care...
In the midst of his suffering, wrongly accused and abandoned by everyone, Job says something remarkable:

"Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high. My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God; on behalf of a man he pleads with God as one pleads for a friend." (Job 16:19-21)

Wait—WHO is Job talking about? This can't be human because:

✓ All Job's human friends abandoned him
✓ Earlier in Job we learned no human can stand before God to plead another's case ✓ This advocate is "in heaven" and "on high"—a divine location

Job is prophesying JESUS—thousands of years before Bethlehem.

This carousel unpacks several game-changing insights from this passage:

1️⃣ The difference between comfort and condemnation - and how to actually help people who are suffering
2️⃣ Why your Bible translation matters - Some translations make it sound like God is attacking Job in anger, but the Hebrew text tells a different story about God's character
3️⃣ Who is really afflicting Job - Is it God or Satan? The answer matters more than you think
4️⃣ Job's prophetic vision of Christ - as our divine Intercessor who stands before God as our friend
5️⃣ The ultimate question about hope and death - Job asks: "Will hope go down to the gates of death?" And 2,000 years ago, an empty tomb answered that question forever.

Here's the part that gets me every time:

Job, sitting in ashes, covered in sores, abandoned by everyone, falsely accused—STILL had hope. Not because his circumstances improved. Not because his friends finally understood. But because he knew there was someone in heaven advocating for him.

Job asked: "Will hope go down to the gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?"

He was asking: Does hope survive death? Or is death the ultimate end?

The answer came on a Sunday morning 2,000 years ago when Hope Himself—Jesus Christ—walked out of a tomb, having conquered death from the inside out.

Swipe through the carousel to get the full breakdown of this powerful passage. 👉
Then I want to hear from you:

💬 Have you ever experienced "miserable comfort" from well-meaning people?

💬 What's your biggest takeaway from Job's story?

💬 How does knowing you have an Advocate in heaven change how you face trials?

This is such a rich passage with so much application for our lives today. Let's discuss in the comments!

📖 Want the full, in-depth study? I've written a complete breakdown of Job 16-17 with commentary on translation issues, theological implications, and practical application. Link in the comments below! ⬇️

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11/23/2025

First : Out of 400+ Scripture graphics I've created, Psalm 138:8 is one of my top five favorites.

I love the colors and the setting—the burst of sun rising over the sea. One can imagine standing on the cliff looking towards the horizon for the promised hope to come.

I also love the verse itself. It is one that I hold on to.

Different translations handle that first line differently. The ESV says the Lord "will fulfill," the NASB "will accomplish," and the NIV declares "will vindicate."

The Hebrew word "gamar" means "to complete, to bring to an end."

The NLT makes it even more clear: "The LORD will work out his plans for my life— for your faithful love, O LORD, endures forever. Don't abandon me, for you made me."

We trust in the Lord because He is good. He is faithful and we can trust Him to do what He said. He will not forsake us because he made us.

Second : This is one of the Scripture graphics that the attackers corrupted. Not deleted—corrupted. The file was there but wouldn't display on either my laptop or my website.

I used this verse in my 2016 New Year reflection "New Year Resolutions and New Starts." I wrote about how technology failures derailed my plans that week. Life happened.

None of us knows what is coming. We can make all the resolutions in the world and it doesn't mean they will be.

When I wrote this in January 2016, I had no idea the plagiarism of my work had already begun. I had no idea that my auteur essay "Shona Auerbach: Creating Poetry on Screen" would get my entire ministry site targeted when I published a revised version two years later.

I had no idea that the people in the program with me, whom I considered friends, were actually undermining me the entire time, stealing not only my words, but my businesses and identity.

How could I expect this?
How could I know or even try to plan for what was coming?

But the Lord knew.
He knew their hearts.
He foresaw their plans.

And in spite of all the plots and threats, He will perfect, complete, accomplish, and vindicate His plans for my life.

When we trust Him for HIS plans for our life, we can be sure He will bring them about.

11/23/2025

First , out of the 400 or so Scripture graphics that I’ve created to publish on my site one for Psalm 138:8 is one of my top five favorites.

I love the colors of the image. (That is 95% of my strategy when it comes to creating graphics, find images I love and put good words over them).

I love the setting, the burst of the sun rising over the sea. One can imagine oneself standing on the cliff looking towards the horizon for the promised hope to come.

I also love the verse itself. It is one that I hold on to.

Differently translations handle that first line a little differently when translating into English. The ESV says the Lord “will fulfill,” the NASB “will accomplish,” and the NiV confidently declares “will vindicate.”

The Hebrew word used there is “gamar” (Strongs H1584) and it means “to end, come to an end, complete.” Strongs commentary writes that is comes from “a primitive root, to end (in the sense of completion …)”

It ties into the verse from Friday, Zephaniah 3:17, that we are hoping in the Lord, the Mighty One who saves.

The NLT, my go-to for devotional, makes it even more clear. “The LORD will work out his plans for my life— for your faithful love, O LORD, endures forever. Don’t abandon me, for you made me.”

We trust in the Lord because He is good. He is faithful and we can trust Him to do what He said. He will not forsake us because he made us.

Second . This is one of the Scripture graphics that the attackers corrupted. Not deleted as they did for some of them … corrupted. The file was there, but it was corrupted so it would not display … on both my laptop and my website.

I’ve used this verse in a number of posts on my site, including my 2016 reflection for the New Year titled “New Year Resolutions and New Starts.” (Y’all, that is less than two months short of a decade ago! Can you believe that?)

I wrote:

“Just this past week has been such a clear illustration of that. I had a lot of plans for what I was going to accomplish in the week between Christmas and New Year’s. Very little got done. My laptop cable stopped charging, the battery went down, and the registry was corrupted so once I did get a new charger, Windows wouldn’t load. And then I misplaced my phone for an hour, call notifications weren’t coming through, and now I’m going to have to start the New Year on the phone with the cable company because now my modem is connecting to the service, but not to the internet.
I had good intentions and an awesome plan, but life happened.”
(😶 I wish those were my problems now)
The long and short of the post is that none of us knows what is coming. We can make all the resolutions in the world and it doesn’t mean that thing will be.
When I wrote this in January 2016, little did I know that the plagiarism of my work had already begun and that the auteur essay that I wrote for the film class that I had just finished, “Shona Auerbach: Creating Poetry on Screen” would get my entire ministry site targeted when I published a revised version of it in An Unexpected Journal two years later. (A Making of a Hero)
I had no idea that the people who were in the program with me, whom I considered friends, were actually undermining me the entire time, stealing not only my words, but my businesses and identity.
How could I expect this?
How could I know or even try to plan for what was coming my way?
But the Lord knew.
He knew their hearts.
He foresaw their plans.
And inspite of all the plots and threats, He will perfect, complete, accomplish, and vindicate His plans for my life.
When we trust him for HIS plans for our life, we can be sure he will bring them about.

11/04/2025

When the way seems dark, don't forget that not only do you have the True Light, but you are to BE the light.

The LORD is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear?

~ Psalm 27:1

11/03/2025

Apologists often look at this verse as a mandate, a permission to an aggressive debate. But the directive is to us personally. We are to examine ourselves - along with our ideas and ideologies - to make sure our thoughts are actually lining up with God's.

"We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ ..."

2 Corinthians 10:5

11/02/2025

Men may fail us, but God never will, he is always faithful. It is in the Lord that we put our trust.

"Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful."

Hebrews 10:23

10/30/2025

📚 So I found this biblical scholar who became famous in UFO circles by... wait for it... DEBUNKING aliens. Then he wrote a thriller about aliens. Make it make sense! 👽

Y'all, let me tell you about Dr. Michael Heiser and his book The Facade because this journey was WILD. 🎢

I was fact-checking some ancient alien conspiracy theories (as one does 😅) and stumbled onto this guy's website "Sitchin is Wrong" where he's just systematically destroying every pseudoscience claim with actual linguistics and ancient Hebrew. This man did his HOMEWORK. 📖✨

Here's where it gets interesting: 🤔

🔹 Heiser was a legit biblical languages scholar who appeared on Coast to Coast AM (the biggest paranormal radio show) to bring FACTS to the alien conversation

🔹 He wrote The Facade - a sci-fi thriller where a secret government agency recruits academics to deal with "aliens" who want to reveal themselves to Earth

🔹 Plot twist: The book explores what if these aren't extraterrestrials at all, but the spiritual beings the Bible warned us about? 😱

🔹 The CREEPIEST part? Many "fictional" details in the book actually happened - Operation Paperclip, Church Committee discoveries... all REAL documented history! 🕵️‍♂️

The vibe is: C.S. Lewis meets The X-Files meets theological deep dive. It's like if your seminary professor wrote a page-turner about government conspiracies and spiritual warfare. 🔥

One Amazon reviewer complained about an "inappropriate bedroom scene" and said she couldn't read it with her grandkids... except the scene is literally about DECEPTION and FACADES (it's in the title, Karen! 😂).

Why this matters: We're living in an era of Congressional UFO hearings and declassified footage. Heiser wrote a biblical framework for understanding this stuff back in 2001. The man was ahead of his time! ⏰

If you've ever wondered how faith intersects with all the UFO/UAP stuff we keep hearing about, or you just love a good thriller with actual substance, this book is IT.
Question for y'all: If extraterrestrial contact happened tomorrow, how would that challenge or confirm your faith? Drop your thoughts below! 👇 I'm genuinely curious what people think about this!

https://raisedtowalk.org/reviews/the-facade-by-michael-heiser/

10/24/2025

They turned the former Statesman Journal building into a storage facility.

The Statesman journal was founded in 1851, the year Salem came the capitol of the Oregon Territory.

On Church in downtown Salem, the building occupies the block between Chemeketa and Court streets. The Statesman Journal is the major daily paper in Salem and one of the major papers for the state.

However, the newsroom was shuttered, the building sold, and the site has been under construction for a year … now reopening as a storage facility.

The building is also kitty-corner from the Marion County Courthouse where the fraudulent sheriff’s sale took place that I have been reporting in my “Hacked: the Saga” series. It is also across the street from the Marion County Clerk where fraudulent documents were filed and the Marion County DA who wasn’t interested in investigating.

Messages are communicated from person to person … and sometimes actually being there IN person matters