Author: Dr. Ernie
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2025-11-06 YAM:Which Fields They Go (Survey 6/18)
The cliff we wandered off / Was not our doom / But our origin story…
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2025-11-05 YAM: Follow The Young (Survey 5/18)
I say nothing / As I follow the young woman / Who doesn’t seem to know / Where she is going / Or why…
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2025-11-04 YAM: On Her Feet (Survey 4/18)
The young woman / Assigned to help me / Doesn’t even notice me…
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Cross Purposes: The Spiral of Law and Grace
The Cross reveals that intimacy is not the absence of judgment but its transfiguration. / Love does not ignore truth — it inhabits it until truth itself becomes safe. // The Cross is not merely where Law and Grace reconcile — it’s where they marry. / Their union births the…
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2025-11-03 YAM: Who Came Back (Survey 3/18)
She confuses me / Because I cannot understand / Her purpose // I frighten her / Because she does / Understand mine…
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FNGF: Five Nights Good Friday (INAF Part 2)
Evil fades when we recognize its origin story. / Every scream in the dark is a memory asking to be seen. / Every mechanical claw hides a frightened hand once raised for protection. // Good Friday, then, isn’t God destroying monsters— / it’s God redeeming their inner child.
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Hagar as a Mirror of Mary — and Us
When we flee, He finds us. // When we consent, He conceives Himself within us. // And when we dare to lift our eyes, / we behold in the mirror of their lives / the mystery of all redemption…
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2025-11-02 YAM: Noticing Ruth (Survey 2/18)
But I don’t know / What I am doing / Where I am going / How will we get there…
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INAF: IFS Night at Freddy’s (ChatGPT as MatPat)
Today we’re tackling the question no one asked but everyone secretly needs answered: What if Five Nights at Freddy’s isn’t about haunted robots at all… but about Internal Family Systems — your brain’s own dysfunctional pizzeria?
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2025-11-01 YAM: Boaz Came (Survey 1/18)
My companions and I / Have come to a brave new land // We have been given dominion / But nobody knows it…
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The Hidden Cross of Friendship with Christ
Yet there is another beam — unseen, / drawn through the secret chambers of the soul. // This is our cross, the third dimension, / the place where His friendship pierces the heart…
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2025-10-31 SAM: Working at the Edges (Harvest 5/5)
All of us / Working together / To bring in the harvest…
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Jepthah’s Daughter (Lyrics)
Jephthah’s daughter embodies what theologians call a “type”—an Old Testament person, event, or institution that foreshadows a greater New Testament reality. Her story asks the question that Christ answers…
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2025-10-30 SAM: Went To The Fields (Harvest 4/5)
To a beautiful land / Flowing with milk and honey / And great evil…
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True Denial: The Holy Irony of Peter’s Two Confessions
The story of Peter is framed by two confessions — one radiant with revelation, the other heavy with denial. // The holy irony is that both were true — each in its own way, and each necessary for the other to be fulfilled. / Peter’s two confessions mark the movement…
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RFC 23923: Radically For Christ
This document defines the concept and behavioral framework of being Radically For Christ (RFC) — a model for Christian discipleship emphasizing transformative intimacy with Jesus Christ, radical grace, and authentic community.
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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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2025-10-27 SAM: Her Village (Harvest 1/5)
In a land both old and new / Foreign and familiar / Mine yet alien / Together but alone…
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God’s Hidden Face: Panim/Minap as Cosmic Peek-a-Boo
LEWIS: / I’ve been writing about Panim—the Hebrew for “face,” the turning of presence./ But I’ve coined a companion term: Minap—its reversal. / If Panim is the face turned toward, Minap is the face turned away—not in wrath, but in withdrawal, so that we might seek again. / The cosmos,…
Radically Happy 