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Tag: authority

  • Sex 204. Loving Hiss Elf

    Sex 204. Loving Hiss Elf

    “You ruin everything. You take everything I thought was good and pure and valuable, and reveal them to be horrible lies and shadowy deceptions. You make it sound like everything I’ve spent my whole life sacrificing for was an idiotic lie. I feel… I feel…” “The way you make everyone…

  • 6/12 RSVP: Un-Binding Pharisees

    It is easy To identify To despise To fear Pharisees Much harder To redeem one Much harder To recognize We might be one

  • TGR-S5E6: Questionable Authority

    This week on The Great Reset, Ernie argues that his apparent incompetence and immaturity is actually part of a brilliant plan to demonstrate the need for more Christ-like models of authority. TED Summary In this document, Ernie: Claims the authority structures he grew up with were built around the Law…

  • TGR-S4E1: Healthy Submission

    We kick off Season 4 of The Great Reset with the Biastes* on 1pm PDT Tuesday, Aug 25, 2020 by wrestling with questions of authority and submission, prompted by a viewer’s email. Question How should members of Christ’s Body best relate to internal and external human authorities and institutions, in order to continually…

  • TGR-S2E4 Teaching Repentance

    We continue this Season’s focus on The Great Reset of Education at Tuesday 6/9, 1 PM Pacific. In particular, we are wrestling with hard questions of justice and repentance in light of the recent killing of George Floyd. Question: How do we teach people where they need to repent? What…

  • Monk’s Redemption: A Psychological Allegory

    The Vision
I see a locked door. In a dark and scary place, like a monster movie. Big, iron, with crisscrossed chains and padlocks.
Natalie walks up holding a flashlight. Monk trails behind nervously.
Suddenly Stottlemeyer steps in front of them. His eyes are bloodshot, as if he has been drinking, crying, or…

  • Honor Thy Flawed Fathers and Mothers

    How to honor imperfect fathers and mothers http://biblehub.com/matthew/23-9.htm “And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.” Over the last few years God has been putting me through a graduate course in dealing with my father issues. I still haven’t graduated,…

  • Curing The Seven Deadly Virtues of Leadership

    Leadership is a perilous venture, for the very attributes that make leaders great also carry the seeds of our downfall. But surprisingly, there is a very simple cure — albeit a very unpleasant one…

  • LEAD! C.7 Silence and Solitude

    To know God fully requires knowing ourselves. Silence and solitude reveal to us our true faces, so that we can in turn approach God face to face. Memory Verse: “Now when it was day, He departed and went into a deserted place. And the crowd sought Him and came to…

  • LEAD! A.6 Father’s Kingdom

    In Which We See God Creating His World, and Our Place In It The overriding theme of our journey has been exploring what it means to be “baptized into the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.” Having dealt (however superficially) with the ontological aspects of that “name”, we…

  • LEAD! A.5 God’s Tri-Unity

    LEAD! A.5 God’s Tri-Unity

    In Which We Discover The Persons Who Make up the Godhead, and How They Relate to Us We believe in one God, consisting of one substance — one name, one identity, and one character — sometimes called the Godhead. Yet, that name is expressed through three distinct persons, as illustrated…

  • LEAD! A.4 God’s Character

    LEAD! A.4 God’s Character

    [Renumbering so we can start at 1, instead of 0] In Which We Discover What God Looks Like, And Why Moses Wants to See More of Him Continuing our discussion of God’s name — which we are supposed to be baptized into — we turn from the incommunicable aspects of…

  • LEAD! Syllabus for “Theological Foundations”

    LEAD! Syllabus for “Theological Foundations”

    In thinking about it, I realized I should take my Curriculum one step further, and actually identify the passages and key learnings for each lesson. Not only will this help ensure I’m on the same page as my pastor, but it would enable others to write some of the lessons…

  • LEAD! Curriculum Reset for “Theological Foundations”

    LEAD! Curriculum Reset for “Theological Foundations”

    So, the good news is that our church is gearing up to start LEAD! on September 4th, and already taking applications! That’s also the bad news, since I’ve only finished three classes. 😦 Still, it only takes me about four hours per class, which is two late night waiting-to-feed-Rohan sessions…

  • LEAD! A.1 God’s Word

    LEAD! A.1 God’s Word

    [Based on feedback, this study will actually become the first lesson, prior to God’s Commission] In Which We Discover How God Speaks to Us, and Why We Ought to Listen to Him [Updated Sunday, August 3rd]

  • LEAD! A.2 God’s Commission

    LEAD! A.2 God’s Commission

    In Which We Discover God’s Call For Us As Leaders, And What Theology Has To Do With It

  • LEAD! Underlying Assumptions

    The LEAD! Bible Study is supposed to focus specifically on the training of leaders, as opposed to merely general-purpose discipleship. To accomplish that, I’m planning on observing several fairly strong constraints — listed below — as I develop this material.

  • TELL: Theological Essentials for Lay Leaders

    As a counterpart (or even prequel) to my previous article about “safety skills“, I wanted to identify those theological topics essential for lay leaders to understand. In particular, I believe lay leaders need a more concise and practical “boot camp”, in contrast to the multi-year “officer’s training school” provided in…

  • Twelve Steps to Arrow-Proof Your Ministry

    Apologies for the pretentious title, but I wanted to challenge myself to identify and reorganize the lessons we covered in last year’s leadership class into a coherent prescription for facing down “Ministry Killers”.