Category: Art
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“Racking” as Crucifixion: When New Wineskins Aren’t Enough
Wine that only runs never matures. / It exhilarates, but it does not endure.
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The Beauty of Burnout: How Law Makes Space for Grace
But the sculptor knows: wax is not destiny. Law is not permanence. Each is a shape meant to be outgrown.
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Obedience School for Humans (St. Bernard as a Saint Bernard)
You might think obedience school is for dogs. / But no: dogs already understand love. / It is humans who must learn…
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The Silicon Rule: How to Live Out the Golden Rule
When someone (including you) behaves badly, the cause is not intrinsic malice. It is the product of their training and the limits of the context they could perceive at that moment.
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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 Gospel According to Lamentations
Maybe you’ve walked through ruins of your own: a broken relationship, a diagnosis you didn’t want, a dream that didn’t survive the night. You know the hush of heartbreak. You know how absence can feel louder than presence.
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Upward Grace: From Mercy to “Donacy”
We have a word for downward grace: mercy. / We have none for the upward grace— the radiance that names a soul anew, that begets identity out of ruin, that kindles a human being until they become flame…
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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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The Grasshopper Trap: Denying God’s Belief in Us
He has crossed the line between heaven and earth, divinity and dust, so that you might never again call yourself a grasshopper in the sight of giants.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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,…
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Christ Club: An Ecosystem Manifesto
As a sequel to The First Rule of Christ Club and The Ringless Gym, write an ecosystem manifesto around these four points. 1. Circles expand friendship with Jesus. / 2. Stewards hold tension between where we do and don’t yet see Jesus. / 3. Each tension is iteratively resolved by…
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The Ringless Gym: A Lament for the Church
I have seen men made in the ring. And I have seen boys pampered into softness beneath the chrome lights of these new sanctuaries. /? They call them “churches.” / They call them “gyms.” / They are neither. / They are parlors for the death of the will…
Radically Happy 