• Dream: Trap-ped

    It is a hot day.I leave my dog in the car.

  • DBJ-PS73: 2nd Peer Reflective Wisdom Practice

    This Tuesday, July 27th we reprise our Peer Reflective Wisdom Practice by meditating on justice and injustice via Psalm73.

  • DBJ-MOGA+: Moses and other Redeemers

    Supplemental verses for Moses Overcoming God’s Anger

  • Dream: Yellow Candy Grace

    My friend and I are hard-luck kids In Sunday School He’s dying of cancer. The teachers try to take an offering Of the bright yellow candy we both like But rarely get

  • Dream: Checking-Out

    The Takeaway The fear of God should “pressure” me To prioritize treating my family With the fruits of the spirit Even over accomplishing What I thought He told me to do.

  • Dream: Love Story

    There is a story within the story One story is a fairy tale. Sort of like Beauty and the Beast.

  • DBJ-MOGA: Moses Overcomes God’s Anger (Exodus 32)

    Register now! At 2-4pm on Sunday, July 18th we will ask Jesus to disciple us through one of the most confusing and disturbing passages in all of Scripture, at least to me: Exodus 32, where Moses apparently talks God out of destroying His people. Google Slides

  • DBJ-ECC3: Peer Reflective Wisdom Practice

    This Wednesday (June 30, 2021) I invite you to join me in encountering God’s wisdom in Ecclesiastes 3, as part of the Bay Area Summer Peer Mentoring group for the Octet Collaborative.

  • Dream: Lost In Transit

    Dream: Lost In Transit

    We are passengers on a lost flight Or maybe we knew someone who was Or maybe we are just pretending.

  • Breaking The Grievance Circuit

    SixSeconds EQ is named for the fact that the initial emotional response to an external trigger only lasts about six seconds. I have noticed that certain triggers activate a self-perpetuating “grievance circuit” in my mind. This keeps a narrative justifying my resentment circulating in my mind; because I don’t know…

  • Poem: Love in the Shadow

    It is easy to love when you walk in the light When everything’s clear, and the future is bright And all can agree on what’s wrong and what’s right

  • Dream: Terror Hoops

    Arena I am in an Arena. At least in the building. I’m backstage, on the edge of the Court. Watching a man go out to be arrested. A former basketball player. He was going to blow the place up. I helped turn him in. I’m hoping he forgives me. That…

  • DBJ-2021-06-25: Reconciling Reformers

    Playlist: Salome’s Honor

  • Unsolicited Fatherly Advice

    Unsolicited Fatherly Advice

    Based on everything I have learned over the last several years, here is my current practice for how to confront someone I love that I am concerned about. It reflects many painful learnings about what I have found to be counterproductive, but I am sure there is still room for…

  • Playlist DBJ-SHON: Salome’s Honor

    Salome, the mother of James and John, and her complicated relationship to advancing the ministry of Jesus. Matthew 20:20–28 Mark 15:37-41 Mark 16:1-8 Google Slides

  • Redeeming Aphrodite: Girls Knight Out (Part 11)

    Redeeming Aphrodite: Girls Knight Out (Part 11)

    Continued from Part 10 Prologue I stand in the Box of Hades Holding the hand of Eve. While the Multitude tears Adam to shreds. Over and over and over again. Time seems to stop. Or perhaps speed up to infinity. We are frozen somewhere between horror and awe. By the…

  • Effective Righteous Prayer

    Effective Righteous Prayer

    James 5:16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail. There are many types of prayer, for many reasons and occasions. This is my current preferred practice for “prevailing”…

  • Exercising Good Judgement

    It is dangerous to judge others. 
It is irresponsible not to.

  • Communion of the Betrayed

    1 Corinthians 11:23 — For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread.., Similar to HeartSync or Sozo, Communion of the Betrayed (COTB) — also known as Soul Shift — is for inner healing of…

  • DBJ Family Edition (John 13)

    A simplified version of DBJ-LOVE-5 we used with our parents and kids.