Category: Devotional
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2025-09-26 IAM: Compassion For Their Brothers (Idol 16/20)
I am sad / To have caused them / Such pain…
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2025-09-25 IAM: Lost One of Our Own (Idol 15/20)
When they fail to find me / On our tiny island / They start to panic / Fearing / I had drowned / In His sea of compassion…
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2025-09-24 IAM: Sat Until Evening (Idol 14/20)
It belongs to Jesus / And when it is cut open / All of the tears / He carried for us / Pour out / Drowning me in compassion…
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2025-09-22 IAM: House of the LORD (Idol 12/20)
They calmed down / Once they saw / Their pain was carried / In the scarred palms of Jesus…
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2025-09-21 IAM: Encouraged One Another (Idol 11/20)
My friends / Totally reject / The invitation of Jesus / To let me cut their hearts out…
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2025-09-20 IAM: Gets to Go First (Idol 10/20)
Jesus used / The sword of His mouth / To cut out my heart / And the idol it housed…
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2025-09-19 IAM: Fight Their Brothers (Idol 9/20)
My five friends are divided / From themselves / From each other / From me…
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2025-09-18 IAM:Refused to Yield (Idol 8/20)
“I know / This breaks your heart / But that / Is the point…”
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2025-09-17 IEM: Stood in Unison (Idol 7/20)
I had spent my life / Trying to acquire goodness / From the outside / Rather than allow Christ / To form it inside me…
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2025-09-16 IAM: Spend the Night (Idol 6/20)
I never noticed / The many pieces / I had broken her heart into…
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2025-09-15 IAM: Win Back Her Heart (Idol 5/20)
Especially when / I already gave / Lost / Gambled / It away…
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2025-09-14 IAM: Nothing to Worry (Idol 4/20)
But they don’t know / Where they are going / How to get there / What it will take to succeed // Neither do I…
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HARTI Potter and the Resurrection of Rationality
I initially intended this as a critique of the rationalist community, but it works even better as a confession of Christianity’s sins. And my own.
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2025-09-13 IAM: Recognized the Voice (Idol 3/20)
My only consolation / Is that nobody here knows me / Or my backstory // Or so I think…
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2025-09-12 IAM: Serves As My Priest (Idol 2/20)
On the one hand / Jesus is offering all the goodness / I had spent my life trying to steal // On the other / All I know is thieving…
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2025-09-11 IAM: Had No King (Idol 1/20)
To find something / I can hold onto / To remind me of goodness…
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2025-09-10 SAM: Your Strength (Son B 10/10)
had thought / My identity / Was in my strength // That I must use it / To make people like me / Fear me / Respect me / Trust me…
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2025-09-09 SAM: Disclosed His Secret (Son B 9/10)
I must find / A better path forward / Than using my strength / To defend myself…
Radically Happy 