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Connect Others With Jesus Challenge – Day 1 Homework
Healing doesn’t come from going after trauma… it comes from connecting with the Healer, Jesus. What part of Cathy and/or Melinda’s story: a) feels familiar to you b) SOUNDS familiar from those you help
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10/2 Limerick: Brazen (Bold w/o Shame)
When we are bold without shame / We’re playing a different game…
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Connect Others With Jesus Challenge – Day 1 Homework
Runs Oct 2-6 (two days left to sign up!) What part of Cathy and/or Melinda’s story: a) feels familiar to you I also grew up in a conservative Christian family.The ‘bad theology’ I implicitly received was the idea of God as a “hard taskmaster.”He kept making me jump through ever-more-difficult…
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10/1 Tri-Limerick: Deshamed Alive (Prodigal Greatness)
Shame is the nature of life / The price we pay to avoid strife…
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9/30 Limerick: Co-Mission-Ed
Q. What’s the trait you value most about yourself? A. My willingness to be co-educated by Christ into His mission
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Dream: Family County
My first thought / When I woke up / Was that this was what the church should be / What our family should become…
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9/28 Limerick: Trigger Happy
Hat tip to both Weird Al and the Skylander If we want our hearts to grow bigger We must learn to confront each trigger When my hidden pain Becomes Jesus’ gain We’ll overflow Joy — so I figger Today I will be happy When my amygdala show me Where You…
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9/27 Epic Poem: Right Brain Love
Love that my flesh cannot feign / Has to come from my right brain / My left brain, it pains me to say / Pretends love to force you to stay
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9/25 Poem: Love Nose / Heaven Scent
Lord I suppose / I need a new nose / That sniffs out Your love / Wherever it goes
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9/24 Epic Poem: Re-Pent-Up (Christing)
For it’s my own religious pride / That zeal must burn up from inside / For it is the urge to condemn / That I have in common with them
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9/21 Epic Poem: Radically Happy
And so far from just being cruel / God used my pain as a tool / To force me to dig deep inside / And find out I’m loved as His Bride
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9/19 Rhyme: Hot Fusion
Hat tip to Cold Fusion “For our God is a consuming fire.” Hebrews 12:29 When I am stuck in confusion Let me melt into Your fusion Saturated by love’s diffusion Til all the world feels your effusion Today I will be undoneBy love
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9/18 Epic Poem: Missing Peace
No matter the sermons we preach / The lost of this world we won’t reach / Until they see crazy love / That only could come from above
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Dream: Prince of Nerds
I even win an award. “Mr. Popular” It includes the right to crash any party. Not just at nerd camp. Any camp. (Though it may just be honorary)
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From Christendom to Christ: Religion vs Relationship
Yes He is Wise. / Yes He is Lord. / Yes He is God. / But Christ is so much more…

