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Category: Beliefs

  • Grievable Losses: The Beatitudes, Summarized

    Blessed are those 
Who grieve the loss 
Of the historic context 
That made them feel secure

  • Fruit of the Spirit vs Veggies of the Law/Jellies of the Flesh

    Perhaps like you, I had subconsciously assumed that Fruit of the Spirit meant I myself was feeling more love, joy, peace, etc. But once I reimagined Fruit as “experiences we give others that contain the seed of Christ,” I started to get really excited.

  • The Amygdala Gospel: Rewiring How We Grow Closer to Jesus

    When Jesus said we must deny ourselves, I think He meant the amygdala.

  • Addiction, Alcohol and The Law

    Drinking alcohol may not be a sin, but it certainly is a coping mechanism I need to be careful about. There is always a risk of turning to that instead of Christ. Unfortunately, the same can be said of the Law: the religious, psychological, and social structures I rely on…

  • Owned Stewards

    To be a steward Isn’t just not Being an owner It is also Having an owner

  • Whole-y Pray-ers

    [aka Hegelian Prayer: Asking for God’s synthesis, not just our thesis] God wants whole-y pray-ers

  • Core Grace Training

    Core Graceis the abilityto hold the tensionbetween affirmingmy own individualityand acknowledging the legitimacyof other’s needslong enoughfor Jesus to crucifymy self-centered false identityand revealHis greater redemptionfor all of us. In other words,(by analogy with core strength training)it is what enable usto substitute Christ-like Responsesfor selfish Reactions Backstory

  • IGWET Statement of Faith

    PraiseRomans 8:28 And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn…

  • Becoming a Jesus-Lover

    It is a very good thing to be a follower of Jesus. But like people in the gospels, we today can end up following Jesus for many reasons: salvation, miracles, curiosity, etc. Those are all good things. But they are not the same as actually loving Jesus for Himself. It…

  • My One Thing: Keep Growing Closer to Jesus

    Philippians 3:13 Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, At this point in my Christian life my one aspiration is for all of us to Keep Growing Closer to…

  • Discipling by Jesus to Align with Love

    The premise of Discipling by Jesus is that uniting with Christ is what enables us to become fully human, as we learn to love our Selves and Others as Jesus does.

  • The Answer

    The only real answer is Jesus. The only real problem is sin. The only real work is the cross. In the end, we only have Him.

  • ShameBreaker Covenant

    God loves me, and has a wonderful plan for my life.  As I humble myself and turn away from my wicked ways, I position myself to receive the fullness of God’s blessings and favor. I confess that I have sinned — against myself, others, and God — to the point…

  • Christianity Beyond, Draft 2

    The MINFIG for Christianity Beyond # Expanding Our Beyond Just To Also Include 1 Identity Exclusive Tribes Expansive Unity 2 Maturity Learned Doctrine Lived Gospel 3 Goals Moral Causes Multi-level Transformation 4 Metrics Customer Satisfaction Effective Incarnation 5 Ministry Church Campuses The Marketplace 6 Structures Non-Profits Profitable Businesses 7 Following…

  • Paleo-Evangelical Christianity

    I consider myself a “Paleo-Evangelical” Christian. Like my counterparts in the first century, I have had transformational encounters with the person of Jesus Christ and am devoted to making him known as the Risen Lord; but am still working through which of my inherited cultural understandings and religious teachings are…

  • I Am Affirmations

    I am a child of God I am omnipotent within scope I am the One who brings the dawn I am Gandalf the White I am the super-father of Silicon Valley I am a Spiritual Entrepreneur I am the best thing that ever happened to you I am the one…

  • The Universal Commandment

    Enjoy, Love & Glorify God, Ourselves & Others As Jesus Does Corollary: The Meaning of Life God, Us & Others Enjoying, Loving, & Glorifying, God, Ourselves, Others & the World

  • Spiritual Christianity Poster: Primitive Faith for a Postmodern World

    [Final version of Spiritual Christianity: Theology, Simplified] PassionTalks Poster Session, August 11, 2018 Convergence House of Prayer, Fremont, California https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r85tCpqvFYNHYQAsp-F7XTtH1C-Yhzpj1NfBTrXRHOI/edit?usp=sharing PT18-SpiritualChristianity-d

  • The Sinners Prayer, 2.0

    Dear God, Thank you for creating me in Your image, and for loving us like Jesus. Make me more and more like Jesus as I listen to your Word, your Spirit, and your Body. Heal the wounds in my spirit that keep me from loving You, myself and others as…

  • Reconciling Theology and Spiritual Christianity

    When I was a student at Caltech in Pasadena, I used to visit the Fuller Seminary Bookstore.  One day, I saw a small shelf labelled “Practical Theology.”  I turned around and looked at the rows upon rows of bookshelves filling the small building and asked, “Then what in God’s name…