Tag: religion
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2026-03-17 YAM: Your Custody (Passion 7/12)
My Father pauses the trial / Steps down from the bench / Picks me up / And holds me close to His chest…
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Zealotry: “Blessed are the pure in hatred, for they will be God”
Zealotry is not the opposite of faith. / It is faith without vulnerability…
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Commandeering Jesus (Mark 3 on The Most Dangerous Possession)
The trouble with this chapter is that it refuses to stay put. / Demons speak correctly. / Family loves sincerely. / Theologians reason carefully. / And Jesus treats all three as threats…
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2026-01-02 IAM: Heart Erupts (Shining 2/7)
He has ascended / Far beyond the religion / That birthed Him…
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2025-09-09 SAM: Disclosed His Secret (Son B 9/10)
I must find / A better path forward / Than using my strength / To defend myself…
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2025-08-09 IEM: Defeat Them All (Giddy 22/22)
The towering pride / Of religious strongholds / That first protected / And now strangle / Christ // Come crashing down / One after another…
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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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From Religion to Relationship: Birthing a Spirit-Breathed Life
Hinn: My prayer is that every believer experiences this spiritual birth—a moment when religion is left behind, and the presence of God becomes as real as the breath in our lungs. This is the invitation of Jesus: not just to know about Him, but to breathe Him in, to be…
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The Prodigal’s Brother: A Tale of Two Sons (ChatGPT as Tim Keller)
After that night, James grew colder. He threw himself into acts of service—not to honor his father, but to prove his own worth. People admired him, but they kept their distance. James’s kindness always came with a shadow: the unspoken reminder that he was the righteous one, the one who…
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Littoral Spirituality: A New Moral Center for the Age of AI
Hypothesis: Religious traditions existed to compress transformative spiritual encounters into rituals and texts that could be transmitted for millennia, both curated and captured by priestly elites who were the sole (if vital) arbiters of truth.
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From Christendom to Christ: Religion vs Relationship
Yes He is Wise. / Yes He is Lord. / Yes He is God. / But Christ is so much more…
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9/4 Observation: Fill House
Hat tip to the TV Show. So the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.’Luke 14:23
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Law Detox
Law is toxic Though intended to save It will ultimately destroy Relationship
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Limerick: Deperishable (God WAS Dead)
As I came down the mountain Man said: Do you not know God is dead?
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Immanuel Encounter: KnowsMore Redeemed
For being a Redeemer In My Image Is learning How to be filled And emptied To create space For Me If you had only received Good You would never need to be emptied And you would never have known Or needed My Grace And Salvation That I purchased With My…
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Precondition for Revival
As long as we think we are victims to be rescued or saints to be vindicated or children to be protected The Cross holds no answers
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Dream: Impostor
Our family is staying at a tropical casino.The kids are getting bored, so we start wandering towards the outside. The casino is having their grand evening religious ritual.The main hallway and staircase are lined with formally-dressed staff holding candles.I am never sure if they are genuinely devout, or just putting…
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TGR-S3E1: Money, Sex, Power and God (Oikotics)
This Tuesday on July 7th, 2020 we kick off Season 3 of The Great Reset by introducing oikotics, a novel discipline that unifies economics, politics, psychology & religion. Question: What is the most useful and healthy way to think about money? Perspective: Money is the most decentralized mechanism yet for…
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The San Jose Declaration: Ending the Abortion Wars
April 1st, 2031 A.D. Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the San Francisco Revival of the 2020s was an end to the politicization of abortion, in a way that seemed unimaginable to those who lived through the culture wars that peaked during the Trump presidency. While extremists on both sides…
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