Tag: spirit
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2026-05-23 SAM: Costly And Precious (Bodyguard 13/14)
I am free / To lose myself / In nurturing His body…
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2026-05-22 IAM: More About You (Bodyguard 12/14)
As the Spirit of Jesus / Moves me / Like blood / To every part of His body…
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2026-04-04 IAM: Forever Dashed (Foolish 4/7)
I was so drunk / On forgiveness / From the blood of Jesus / I did not see / Where I was going…
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2026-04-02 IAM: Removed Our Guilt (Foolish 2/7)
On forgiveness. // The architectonic reordering / Of how I relate / To morality / Reality / Myself / Him…
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2025-10-29 SAM: Let Me Gather (Harvest 3/5)
He uncovers a remnant / Of those who have secretly / Lost faith in religion…
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2025-10-28 SAM: Let Me Go (Harvest 2/5)
The wind of the Spirit / Is blowing across the land / Like a tornado…
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2025-10-24 YAM: Bitter Blow (BeeHive 2/4)
An ill wind / Blows into the hive / Blows us out / Scattering us…
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The Missing “Spirit-Led Life” Manual
Pogue: (stands, exasperated) Stop! Do you hear yourselves? Grace. Effort. Dishes. You’re all clutching your agendas like brand logos. Meanwhile, the Spirit’s been standing right there the whole time!
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The Silver Law of Theocracy
The Iron Law tells us how institutions entrench themselves in power. / The Silver Law tells us how they lose their soul.
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A God Who Needs: The Divine Archetype Behind Shame
Lewis: Then here’s my thought: shame is what divine need feels like when there’s no guarantee it will be met.
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Trinitarian Theosis: The Three Names of Revelations 3:12
Write as St. Gregory Palamas to a novice, using this “[gloss]” on Revelation 3:12 ChatGPT Prompt “I will write on you the name of my God [love], and the name of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem [peace]… And I’ll write my own name [joy] on you.” The…
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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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A Fiery Kiss: Pentecost as Our Engagement to Christ
Pentecost is often seen as the birthday of the Church or the dramatic arrival of the Holy Spirit. But viewed through the lens of covenantal intimacy, it becomes something far more tender and more terrifying: the engagement of the Church to Christ, sealed not with a ring, but with a…
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Redeeming Yoga: A Déchanetian Manifesto for Embodied Christian Spirituality
In an age where both yoga and Christianity risk disembodiment—yoga reduced to mere physical exercise, and Christianity to abstract doctrine—we must return to the incarnational heart of both traditions.
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A Shoulder to Lean On (ChatGPT as Richard Rohr on Divine Comfort)
The true comfort of God is not the anesthesia of escape or the adrenaline of solutions. It is Presence. Loving, enduring, undefended Presence.
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The Spiritual Equivalence Principle: Unforgiveness as Blaspheming the Holy Spirit
Just as Einstein revolutionized our understanding of gravity by showing that acceleration and gravitation are indistinguishable within a closed system, I believe Jesus reveals a spiritual symmetry: unforgiveness and blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, though seemingly distinct, may be functionally equivalent in their impact on the soul.
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Diaphoris: The Ecstatic Agony of Divine Glory
But this “oneness” isn’t static. It’s not a melting into indistinction. It’s a communion of distinction, a unity born of love through difference. The key lies not merely in perichoresis—the classic doctrine of the mutual indwelling of the Trinity—but in something more dynamic, more painful, more creative…
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