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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…
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The First Rule of Christ Club: You Can’t Explain Christ Club
Christ Club is a whisper that shows up at 3 a.m. / When your marriage is cracking and the pills stopped working. / It’s the ache behind your ribs when you look at your father and realize you never learned how to forgive him. / It’s not Jesus knocking. /…
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2025-10-24 YAM: Bitter Blow (BeeHive 2/4)
An ill wind / Blows into the hive / Blows us out / Scattering us…
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2025-10-22 IAM: Heart Was Set (Tears 12/12)
All that is left of me / After feeding the people / Is my heart…
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Dream: Moving Day.
The place is a madhouse. / It is filled with my friends and acquaintances. // Did I throw a party / And not remember it?
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2025-10-20 IAM: Die There Too (Tears 10/12)
“The only knowledge / That can save them / Is knowledge of My death / My body and blood / Spilled for them…”
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The Cruciform Cycle of Law and Grace
Yet this very success marks the beginning of decline. / For when grace cools into law, the form that once liberated begins to constrain. / The spiritual spring that birthed the order becomes a mechanical routine. / The Law, having preserved life, now begins to stifle it…
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2025-10-19 IAM: Be My People (Tears 9/12)
“I will no longer answer / Their thirst / For the water of knowledge…”
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Over The Woods ARC (Redeeming Sondheim’s Into The Woods)
MYSTERIOUS STRANGER: It’s… not that simple. Anyway, the important question is: why are you back in the woods? I thought you were living happily ever after with your wife and my grandson!
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2025-10-18 IAM: And Stay With (Tears 8/12)
I no longer need / To go to the river / For I am the river…
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2025-10-17 IAM: Now Go With (Tears 7/12)
The heart of Jesus / Sends me out / Into the world // Exchanging / His love / For their grief…
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2025-10-16 IAM: Clung Tightly (Tears 6/12)
The tension / Of loving those / Who hate each other // Including / Perhaps especially / Parts of myself…
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2025-10-15 IAM: Goodbye and Went (Tears 5/12)
The blood of Jesus / Binds shards of me / To all the people in the world…
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2025-10-14 IAM: Bitter For You To Share (Tears 4/12)
I hate / That my sharp edges / Wound those / I was hoping to save…
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2025-10-13 IAM: Turn Around (Tears 3/12)
I see that all the people / Are being torn apart / Just like me…
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Ten Laws of Antifragile Holiness (The Double Paradox of Religion)
The Law outside us restrains sin; / the Law inside us breeds pride. / Once we “own” righteousness, we weaponize it…
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2025-10-12 IAM: New Husbands (Tears 2/12)
Every piece of me / That He tore apart / Has been fit back together…
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