Tag: church
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Speaking As A Friend: An Epistle to the Church (By Christamicus)
A friend knows what the beloved is doing. A friend bears responsibility, not merely obedience. A friend can no longer hide behind ignorance.
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Prophetic Word from Anthony (Voice as a Weapon)
Ernest, I see you as a new weapon — a new creation. / I’ve seen your voice as a weapon that many people don’t yet understand. / They don’t know what you do, where you come from, or what moves you. / But it’s your loyalty, your heart, your faith…
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Dream: Un-Conventional
People who naively assume I am going where they are going, just because they see me around, is kind of how I feel at church.
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Mystics in Hadestown: A Dialogue on Control, Desire, and Divine Union
That’s when the dark night begins. When you find that the Church is not your home, but your hunger…
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Reviving Hadestown: The Church (and I) as Eurydice
We, the Church, like to think we’re the rescuer. / But we’re often the rescued. / Not because we’re weak—but because we’ve forgotten who we are…
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Church3 and the Spirit of Innovation: How Christ Will Win the Next Millennium
The Church has always been a movement shaped by tension and transformation. Each era has brought new challenges, requiring the Spirit to expand the Church’s “bandwidth” to see, know, and practice God in ways that fit the needs of the time. Today, as we stand on the threshold of what…
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1/3 Bi-Limerick: We’ll Come Home
Lord this world feels like a mess / Still I must have to confess / Your church also / Has far to go / To demonstrate how You bless…
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Dream: Psalm 51 (or not)
As usual, I am sure I know this. / And desperate to give the answer. / There’s two problems…
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Dream: Family County
My first thought / When I woke up / Was that this was what the church should be / What our family should become…
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Dream: Mighty Fortress
He asks me if I want a “fortress piece.” / I see he’s gotten out one of his MTG-style card games. / I assumed this means a special box-like thing for holding the cards. / But he’s pointing to a coffee cup. / White, ceramic, tapered at the bottom.
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Dream: Duck Type Casting
These kids are in love with an actual duck. One of the larger kids dresses up in a giant, non-realistic duck costume. They go on various misadventures. This intersects somehow with Amazon Web Services (AWS). [Clearly I’m working too hard!]
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Dream: The Inverse of Facade
[Upon reflection, I fear this is about our church. All them.] I am part of an ethnic enclave in a big city. In many ways, it is exemplary. But I discover this comes with a price…
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Dream: Duke Performance
I am at a convention center. I am running late for booth setup. I am just wearing underwear.
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Poem: Fishy Calling
I must be the priest To reach for the least I must be the saint Who goes where God ain’t
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Dream: Unboxed
Our church may need to move. The dogs represent Our unmanaged problems Or unresolved issues.
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Dream: Adulting
She has an unusually long thin nose. She answers brightly: Oh, I am just so happy to be here and to become an adult.
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Fruit of the Spirit vs Veggies of the Law/Jellies of the Flesh
Perhaps like you, I had subconsciously assumed that Fruit of the Spirit meant I myself was feeling more love, joy, peace, etc. But once I reimagined Fruit as “experiences we give others that contain the seed of Christ,” I started to get really excited.
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The Post-COVID Church
Right now, most churches devote at least six-sevenths of their budget, staff, and attention to what happens on Sundays, and at most one-seventh to helping the congregation follow Jesus the other six days. Can you imagine what we might accomplish if we flipped that on its head, and invested 85%…
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TGR-S4E6: FBD-1 “Empowering Disciples”
This week on the Biastes we will be attempting a “FishBowl Dialogue” between Ernie P. and David J. This blog post is Ernie’s attempt to organize his thoughts in advance, based on his current best guess about David’s underlying Concern. Tune in next Tuesday 9/29/2020 to find out what actually…
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