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2025-05-26 SAM: Castaway (Family 11/14)
Held in the arms of Jesus / With my father and sister / Who had been violently chasing me / And I had been fleeing / Due to an unholy mixture / Of fear and love…
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Relational Space: Navigating Everything Jesus Commanded Us to Do
– Father Son / – Self Other / – Kingdom World // This is how divergence ultimately leads to converge and transformation (and vice versa — if we follow hard enough)…
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The Adjacent Impossible: A Diaphoric Take on 2 Corinthians 4
In 2 Corinthians 4, Paul does not speak as a victor. / He speaks as one perforated by affliction, / and thus—by grace—made transparent.
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“Hohlraum of Clay” (ChatGPT as Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
We are fragile. Some of us will be broken by history. Some of us will be used up by the very purposes we were made for. // And yet–this is not defeat. In the Kingdom of God, to be broken is not to be discarded. To be consumed in service…
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2025-05-25 IAM: Rivals (Family 10/14)
Jesus played chicken / With the enemy ships pursuing me / And nobody blinked…
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2025-05-24 IAM: He Alone (Family 9/14)
I slowly realize / I am back on the ship / Fleeing from my family // I look for Jesus. // He’s back where He was / Perhaps always was…
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1. Imaginal Dei: Unfolding the Divine Within
The Imaginal Dei—God’s implanted design—is not a foreign imposition, but our truest nature made manifest.
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2025-05-23 IEM: Give Our Lives (Family 8/14)
Jesus and I / Are nailed to a cross together // By the tribe of my father’s past / For trespassing on their sacred ground / By building a cross…
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2025-05-22 IAM: Therefore Worship (Family 7/14)
Jesus was always present / In the time of my father’s past / But they could not see Him // So I am obeying His command / To plant Him in their midst / The only way I know how…
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Fishing for Gold: Gracious Accommodation to Unholy Systems
“We don’t actually owe them. But… let’s pay anyway. Not out of fear—out of freedom.”
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2025-05-21 IAM: Plant Life (Family 6/14)
To my surprise / The warring tribes / Are happy / Despite their scars / And periodic starvation…
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2025-05-20 IAM: Impossibility (Family 5/14)
Across a steamy river / I see the warring tribes / My earthly father / Was born into…
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From “The” to “Thine” (Commandments)
A Max Lucado-Style Reflection on Jesus’ Use of “My” vs “The” Commandments
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The Barnaba’ Split: A Comic Redemption of Acts 15
Barnabas: Paul, I’ve been thinking—we give John Mark another shot. The boy has potential. Paul: Potential? Barnabas, the last time we gave him “potential,” he ghosted us halfway to Pamphylia. I’ve seen more commitment from a fig tree. Barnabas: He was overwhelmed! It was his first mission trip. You try…
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2025-05-19 IAM: Depowered (Family 4/14)
> “We have to rescue them!” // I shout / Pointing to the desert island / Where my pursuing family / Has stranded themselves / After following us back in time…
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2025-05-18 IAM: Cloudy (Family 3/14)
“Besides / They never wanted / To hurt you / Only to keep you / From hurting them…”
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2025-05-17 IAM: Pursued (Family 2/14)
“He doesn’t hate you / He loves you so much / He is terrified of losing you – And lashes out / Hoping you will submit…”
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Unnecessary Suffering: Emotional Inflammation and the Pain We Carry
Theologians and doctors agree on one thing—pain is a warning. A gift, even, when functioning properly. But when pain lingers long after the wound, or when our response to it causes more harm than the original injury, we enter into the realm of unnecessary suffering.
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2025-05-16 IAM: Long, Long Ago (Family 1/14)
I think he killed my father / But it turns out / He is my father…
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2025-05-15 YAM: Covenantal (Elder 13/13)
I see the ravaged battlefield / Where my story began / Is now a beautiful garden…
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