Tag: christ
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2025-12-08 SAM: Back to Bethlehem (Visitor 3/6)
But nobody / Seems to have / Any room / For an alien / And a stranger…
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2025-12-01 IAM: Relative By Marriage (Kinsman 13/17)
Somehow / The Jesus-inspired surgery / Replacing her mother’s feet / Brought me face to face / With my beloved…
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Jesus the Non-Commuting Operator
He will not commute with our carefully arranged ambitions. / He will not sit comfortably alongside our preferred identities. / He will not be merely added to the Hamiltonian of our lives as a stabilizing term…
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2025-11-29 IAM: Fell Fast Asleep (Kinsman 11/17)
I have no idea why / Because this whole idea / Of me performing surgery / On my beloved’s mother / Is completely insane…
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2025-11-21 IAM: You’ll Be Alone (Kinsman 3/17)
I shot Jesus / And killed Him // In my defense / He provoked me…
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2025-11-20 IAM: Stay Close (Kinsman 2/17)
Jesus has the drop on me / And I wouldn’t kill him first / Even if I could // Would I?
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2025-11-18 YAM: Through Life or Through Death (Survey 18/18)
My job / Was never / To conquer the land / From outside…
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2025-11-16 YAM: Carried It Back (Survey 16/18)
The beast form of the young woman / Responds to her deepest instincts / By killing mine // Exactly as planned…
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2025-11-15 YAM: More Than Half (Survey 15/18)
And I realize / The beast we fought and killed / And fed on / Was Christ Himself…
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The Grasshopper Cure: Molting Into Christ
When Jesus speaks of taking up the cross daily, He is not prescribing religious misery. / He is describing the necessary process of transformation by which the false self dies so that the true self may live. // This death is not primarily about losing things, but about being freed…
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FNGF: Five Nights Good Friday (INAF Part 2)
Evil fades when we recognize its origin story. / Every scream in the dark is a memory asking to be seen. / Every mechanical claw hides a frightened hand once raised for protection. // Good Friday, then, isn’t God destroying monsters— / it’s God redeeming their inner child.
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Hagar as a Mirror of Mary — and Us
When we flee, He finds us. // When we consent, He conceives Himself within us. // And when we dare to lift our eyes, / we behold in the mirror of their lives / the mystery of all redemption…
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The Hidden Cross of Friendship with Christ
Yet there is another beam — unseen, / drawn through the secret chambers of the soul. // This is our cross, the third dimension, / the place where His friendship pierces the heart…
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Jepthah’s Daughter (Lyrics)
Jephthah’s daughter embodies what theologians call a “type”—an Old Testament person, event, or institution that foreshadows a greater New Testament reality. Her story asks the question that Christ answers…
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True Denial: The Holy Irony of Peter’s Two Confessions
The story of Peter is framed by two confessions — one radiant with revelation, the other heavy with denial. // The holy irony is that both were true — each in its own way, and each necessary for the other to be fulfilled. / Peter’s two confessions mark the movement…
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RFC 23923: Radically For Christ
This document defines the concept and behavioral framework of being Radically For Christ (RFC) — a model for Christian discipleship emphasizing transformative intimacy with Jesus Christ, radical grace, and authentic community.
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God’s Hidden Face: Panim/Minap as Cosmic Peek-a-Boo
LEWIS: / I’ve been writing about Panim—the Hebrew for “face,” the turning of presence./ But I’ve coined a companion term: Minap—its reversal. / If Panim is the face turned toward, Minap is the face turned away—not in wrath, but in withdrawal, so that we might seek again. / The cosmos,…
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Christ Club: An Ecosystem Manifesto
As a sequel to The First Rule of Christ Club and The Ringless Gym, write an ecosystem manifesto around these four points. 1. Circles expand friendship with Jesus. / 2. Stewards hold tension between where we do and don’t yet see Jesus. / 3. Each tension is iteratively resolved by…
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The First Rule of Christ Club: You Can’t Explain Christ Club
Christ Club is a whisper that shows up at 3 a.m. / When your marriage is cracking and the pills stopped working. / It’s the ache behind your ribs when you look at your father and realize you never learned how to forgive him. / It’s not Jesus knocking. /…
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