Tag: sanctification
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2026-04-29 SAM: Affectionately Bless (Deceit 4/5)
Because the kiss / Of the Spirit of the Lamb / Reformed me in His image…
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2025-12-21 YAM: Raise Children With (Business 10/12)
The fires of opposition and betrayal / Did not kill / Or even injure me / But purified me…
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2025-12-20 YAM: Purchase From The Hand (Business 9/12)
In the brightness of the flames / I see / That they are not wizened conspirators / But frightened children…
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Jesus the Non-Commuting Operator
He will not commute with our carefully arranged ambitions. / He will not sit comfortably alongside our preferred identities. / He will not be merely added to the Hamiltonian of our lives as a stabilizing term…
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The Grasshopper Cure: Molting Into Christ
When Jesus speaks of taking up the cross daily, He is not prescribing religious misery. / He is describing the necessary process of transformation by which the false self dies so that the true self may live. // This death is not primarily about losing things, but about being freed…
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CIGAR: The Spiritual Spiral of Renewal
Construction. Intimacy. Generativity. Agency. Renewal. // Each one sounds great. But here’s the thing:/ Each phase feels like you’ve finally arrived—until it breaks you. / And that’s when the next phase begins….
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Defending Diaphoric Participation: Towards a Grand Unified Theology
John (raising a brow): You are dangerously close to universalizing a metaphor. // Presenter: True. But I argue it’s more than a metaphor–it’s a **meta-structure**. Diaphoric participation is _how_ theology happens, not just what it says.
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“Hohlraum of Clay” (ChatGPT as Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
We are fragile. Some of us will be broken by history. Some of us will be used up by the very purposes we were made for. // And yet–this is not defeat. In the Kingdom of God, to be broken is not to be discarded. To be consumed in service…
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1. Imaginal Dei: Unfolding the Divine Within
The Imaginal Dei—God’s implanted design—is not a foreign imposition, but our truest nature made manifest.
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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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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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10/28 Epic Poem: Vulnera-Bold
Yet that is the why Satan still rules: / Our terror of looking like fools / By shutting down part of our brain / Hell’s able to act with free rein
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10/26 Epic Poem: Daily Exorcise Program
…If we would escape / Such self-sabotage / We must first detect / His [Satan’s] soul-camouflage…
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10/5 Limerick: Praispective
My greatest need for corrective Is taking on a Praise Perspective When things go wrong I lift up a song ‘Cause that’s how His Kingdom’s infective! Today I will practice infectious praise
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8/9 Poem: Spirit Free
I need a heart transplant / Ego redefined / So my healed spirit / Can renew my mind…
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8/6 Limerick: Feet First
Q. Describe one habit that brings you joy. A. Letting God clean my “feet” every morning.
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8/1 Poem: Ignition Spirituality
Please light a spark in my heart / So joy illumes every part / Incinerating my pain / Turning each loss into gain…
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Speck to Beam to Cross: Responsive Discipleship
How can we use our external triggers to create internal transformation with eternal impact?
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PerspectiveShift: What does God want?
FROM: Connecting with Jesus / So we can become healed // TO: Becoming Healed / So we can connect with Jesus
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6/10 Poem: Demon-Straight
If we want a world / That is free from hate / Then followers of Christ / Must Him demonstrate…
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