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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…
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2025-09-08 SAM: Confessed to Her (Son B 8/10)
The door is now open / But the girl I love / Refuses to come out…
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Goodbye, Death (Resurrecting Parts)
The self-hating thing / Now appears / As a self-emptying man // Waiting for us / Waiting for me…
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Crossing Beyond Shame: Embracing the Paradox to Transcend It
This is the new creation: a community not founded on scapegoating but on forgiveness, not bound by shame’s burden but liberated by its transfiguration.
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What It Sounds Like (As a Psalm)
Out of the shadows, I’m breathing, / out of the silence, I’m new. / This is the song of my healing, / this is my soul coming through…
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2025-09-05 SAM: Water Gushed Out (Son B 5/10)
Even my friends / Avoid me / Because of their shame / At betraying me…
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2025-09-04 SAM: Repay Him (Son B 4/10)
In my anger / I lash out at my enemies // In revenge / They threaten my friends // My friends / Turn on me / To save themselves…


