Tag: theodicy
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A Most Fantastic Christmas (ChatGPT as Stan Lee)
ChatGPT Prompt: As Dickens, write a Christmas fable where a hum-buggy Reed Richards discovers the ‘reciprocal zone’: a place where the finite and transfinite switch places, and evil is somehow grievingly rejoiced in as the harbinger of good. This leads him to a profound insight into the cross of Christ,…
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12/27 Epic Poem: Care Bearer
know that I should / Believe God is good / Yet I confess / I oft believe less…
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4/7 Limerick: Father-Centric
I know it makes me look eccentric / But I choose to live life Father-centric / To know God as good / Must be understood / As how we all grow more authentic!
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3/1 Prose: Loving Thoughts
What if the whole purpose of creation is to enable us to fall deeply in love with Jesus?
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12/15 Poem: Right Suffering
The real source of pain / It now seems to me / Is where I conflict / With reality
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Poem: Goodly Evil
How God in His goodness may lead Us faster through lands where we bleed
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Poem: En-viable Life
Do I envy wicked men? Would I take their place? Do I crave the power to rule More than the pow’r of grace?
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Limerick: Grown-Up God
But as we grow our brain In a world filled by pain That comfort is destined to fall
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Limerick: Under-Handed
God sometimes seems under-handed Our suffering, as if He has planned it
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Where Grief Begins
The Loss Is Real And Final And yet… Nothing begins Until something else ends
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Redeeming Animism, Part 4: Effacing Death
Maybe this is what Dr. Strange felt Living a million lifetimes in Infinity War Dying a thousand deaths in the Dark Dimension I see my life All my lives And they all end in death But not always Sometimes I live out my natural days And those Those are worse
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Immanuel Encounter: Into the Woods
I am in the woods at IVCF camp in Massachusetts At the moonlit lake I remember from my college days Jesus is there I am seven years old It is daytime I wish we could stay like this forever Young Innocent Happy
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TRG-S6E4: Core Concepts
Join us on The Great Reset (via Zoom or YouTube Live at Tue Dec 22 1PM PST) as David Johnson pitches us on the concepts he feels we need to Love More Like Jesus. Question: What does this group need in order to function the way God intended for us?…
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TRG-S6E3: All Creation Groans
Join us on The Great Reset (via Zoom or YouTube Live at Tue Dec 15 1PM PST) as we wrestle with Ted’s challenge about how to love the whole world More Like Jesus. Question: Why did God place us in a world full of brokenness and pain? Perspective: So we…
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Broken Words: Lament of the Spiritual Entrepreneur
Broken words and broken hearts, Broken lies keep us apart How can we speak a truth we’ve never heard? Broken words inside my heart, They are tearing me apart How can we save the world with broken words? Broken Words
Radically Happy 