Category: Beliefs
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My Thick Geas: Growing Closer to Christ / Through His Cross
The only thing that matters is My self and others knowing We are deeply loved By the cross of Jesus
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Christ Alone (Family Manifesto)
Our faith is in Christ / And the power of His blood / To restore us to right relationship / With God, each other, and even enemies
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7/14 Poem: Promise Wept
This world that we live in is broken / And promises aren’t always kept / Yet my shattered faith was restored / When I saw that Jesus wept
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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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6/25 Epic Poem: Christ Yield
If we want our worlds to be healed / We must show them how to Christ yield // That’s much easier said than it’s done / But that is why God killed His Son…
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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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RUPA Spiritual Impact Model: How to redeem those we love
Lately I’ve been wrestling with a series of questions around: – parenting – evangelism – discipleship – inner healing I wonder if the acronym RUPA might address all of them: – Relationships – Understanding – Prayer – Authority
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Faith Life Cycle: Each Next Consummation
1. Faith in Self 2. Faith in the Law 3. Faith in Grace 4. Faith in our Cross
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My Sin-Thesis: Load-Bearing Beams
An attempt to synthesize several recent discussions about sin, salvation, and sanctification; especially on John 16.
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Systematic Graceology
The ultimate purpose and practice of Spiritual Formation is: Identifying the Anxieties for which we currently lack Grace Training us to Catharize them by the Cross of Christ More formally:
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Requiem for The Flesh
Because the same instincts Shame uses To save our lives From dying It uses To save itself From the cross
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LifeView: Part-y of God [from iHack]
Over on my professional blog iHack, I’ve been working through the excellent book Designing Your Life. In addition to articulating a philosophy of work (WorkView), they challenge us to write down a philosophy of life (LifeView). Since that obviously overlaps with my spiritual journaling here, I decided to repost it.…
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I Wanna Be A Loser
I wanna lose the Election The Argument The Fight So everyone will think I’m wrong Even though God knows I’m right
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Revival Time (and Space)
Lord, Is now the time You will restore Your kingship To Your people? Yes. If you are willing To pay the price.
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#Devalidation: My Current Favorite Sin
The alternative Is Hospitality With Incarnation The other half Of Vulnerability Concentrating my Self In Christ Where He can protect The real Me And leaving Everything else On the table
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Three Dimensions of Christian Identity
Position: We are already completely accepted as the Father’s beloved children Process: We are still becoming redemptive co-heirs with Jesus Perception: We develop this identity in (not from) community as we practice reconciliation by hearing and obeying the Spirt
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Grievable Losses: The Beatitudes, Summarized
Blessed are those Who grieve the loss Of the historic context That made them feel secure
Radically Happy 