Tag: fear
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Un-Frozen Fear: The Law Behind True Love (Augustine/Kierkegaard Movie Review)
People misunderstand this film because they assume Elsa’s tragedy is repression. It is not. Her tragedy is division of the will. She loves others, yet harms them. She desires intimacy, yet withdraws from it. She fears her power because her power has already wounded what she loves.
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2026-05-07 SAM: The Ransom Price (Zion 7/10)
I am… surrounded. // By problems / By people // I did not ask for / I do not want…
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2026-04-10 YAM: Cry With Hunger (Quaker 3/8)
To arise out / Would leave me exposed / Defenseless / Needy…
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Surprising Soil: Mark 4 as Active Inference
But because no system built to minimize surprise can easily receive a God who insists on resurrection through death…
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2025-11-27 IAM: Do Everything (Kinsman 9/17)
We are… holding each other close. // Not out of passion / But terror / As Jesus… // Drives like a madman!
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2025-11-26 IAM: Lie Down There (Kinsman 8/17)
She is pleasant towards me / But reserved // Perhaps I am too…
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2025-11-25 IAM: Plenty to Eat and Drink (Kinsman 7/17)
She doesn’t see me / So consistently / That I know / She is deliberately avoiding me…
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The Grasshopper Trap: Denying God’s Belief in Us
He has crossed the line between heaven and earth, divinity and dust, so that you might never again call yourself a grasshopper in the sight of giants.
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hel.lo.a.thing (The Un-Reconciled Part)
Youth: You… are not wrong. This is the pit that all mortal life is designed to avoid. And [looking at them with shining eyes] I thank you for the costly sacrifices you made, to keep me — us — alive.
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Beyond Cathedrals: The Kingdom of God Is Like an Ecosystem
The Kingdom, as portrayed in Matthew 13, behaves less like a cathedral—centralized, curated—and more like an ecosystem: distributed, adaptive, antifragile, and oddly fecund.
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Idolatry as False Worship: Graven Images of an Antifragile God
Orpheus offers us a tragic parable: the attempt to capture the divine in the visible, the tangible—the idol—ultimately results in its loss.
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From Now to Eternity: Aion Moments
To make moments matter is not to control them, but to become present to their Presence. / Eternity is not after life — it is within life, hidden in the now, waiting to be found.
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The Cross as Key to Taking and Yielding Authority
In Christian leadership, spiritual growth, and community life, one of the most striking paradoxes is this: we are invited to walk in great authority, and yet, the path to that authority passes through radical surrender. / For many, this journey is hindered not by theological ignorance or moral failing, but…
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Fishing for Gold: Gracious Accommodation to Unholy Systems
“We don’t actually owe them. But… let’s pay anyway. Not out of fear—out of freedom.”
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Sex 412: Ohm-Coming
She gazes into some sort of portal, or perhaps a mirror. Except this version of herself is calm and confident, not frantic and desperate. The other Nother smiles as she touches up her hair, then turns and holds out her hand to…
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From FAST to SLOW: The Journey of Growing Closer to Jesus
FAST—marked by Fear, Anger, Shame, and Trauma—reflects the old “animal skins” God gave Adam and Eve to survive outside Eden. SLOW—defined by being Spirit-Led, Obedient, and Waiting—represents the “robes of righteousness” purchased by Christ, inviting us into new life. Let’s explore how this transition unfolds and how it draws us…
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Director, Silent (Darker Difficult Parts)
He is sitting dead center in a screening room. / All alone. / Reviewing silent films. // Movies about me. / The story of my life…
Radically Happy 