Tag: fear
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Fear, Anger, and Shame: How the Magi Redeem Cain
Gifts of Immanuel versus Mark of Cain – Gold of Father’s wisdom versus clay of fear – Frankincense of Spirit’s power versus charcoal of anger – Myrrh of Christ’s love versus wheel of shame Assume a literal Cain…
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Dream: No Free Lunch
It is in a small town. / They don’t serve us lunch after the morning session. / They haven’t told us when the afternoon session starts. // This freaks me out…
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12/27 Epic Poem: Care Bearer
know that I should / Believe God is good / Yet I confess / I oft believe less…
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11/23 Limerick: Feet of Courage
Today I will hold on Til I can hold up Lord it is really quite neat How You bring joy from defeat When I know You’re near I cast away fear Testifying we’ll soon meet!
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12/13 Limerick: In Place of the Skull
I tend to protect my brain / To save myself from the pain / Of being set free / From identity / Though with my Savior I’d reign
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12/4 Poem: Undeniable
What kind of person would I / Have to be not to deny / A Savior who seems to have failed / So I myself am not jailed?
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12/2 Tri-Quatrain: Choose to Lose
Hat tip to Crazy Rich Asians. “The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take…
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11/30 Quad-Quatrain: The Ugliest Habit
Yet in Christ’s Kingdom the one / That brings us close to the Son / Which He commands we employ / Is full of both horror and joy
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11/18 Epic Poem: Hard True
To speak truth in love / Is not just an act / But daring to delve / Into deeper fact…
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Orsinine: Eleventh Night, or As You Love It
Hat tip to William Shakespeare Act 1, Scene 1. Orisino: Fool! Play me a love song. Fool: But I thought you wert sick of being in love with the Lady Olivia. Art thou even more fool than I? O. Exactly! I want to gorge on love and vomit it up,…
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10/28 Epic Poem: Vulnera-Bold
Yet that is the why Satan still rules: / Our terror of looking like fools / By shutting down part of our brain / Hell’s able to act with free rein
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10/13 Un-Image-Enable
Hat tip to Loki Meets Jesus O Lord our minds can’t conceive How we will Your image receive But once we see our sin Then You can begin To free us from what did deceive Today I will open my mind and heartTo reveal the ugliness I’ve been hidingSo You…
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Connecting Others With Jesus – Day 3 Reflections
What about connecting with Jesus do you find: My excitement and apprehension is probably the same: getting out of our left brains!
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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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8/19 Bi-Limerick: Yet Undone
The more that I’m near / The greater my fear / I haven’t yet truly begun…
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7/26 Bi-Limerick: Schematize the Anxiety
I must admit I feel disgraced / When Jesus by fear is displaced… // The key to regaining shalom / Is to schematize this syndrome…
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7/12 Limerick: Love Anchor
Q: What strategies do you use to increase comfort in your daily life? A: Let love, not fear, be my anchor
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7/8 Rap: Heart-Set
Bring on the cross pain / Cause it’s boss gain / For this world’s loss train / Is just my moss slain
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7/2 Poem: Intimit-ation
What Satan fears most / Is a man intimately aware his own sin / Yet even more aware of the power of Christ
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