It’s natural to hate our foes
The authors of our earthly woes
Our flesh tells us true
All that we must do
To sustain the life that God chose
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4/17 Limerick: Changing Faith
StandardFaith cannot merely be passive
Or something that we take a class of
It’s making a bet
That God won’t forget
Which wins us a payoff that’s massive!
Today I will wager unforgettable faith
4/8 Poem: Seeking NoMan
StandardBut He said, “You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!”
Exodus 33:20 NASB 1977
Lord, I long to be NoMan
So I can see you and live
I don’t even care if you kill me
As long as it is me you forgive
4/7 Limerick: Father-Centric
StandardI know it makes me look eccentric
But I choose to live life Father-centric
To know God as good
Must be understood
As how we all grow more authentic!
Today I will help us all become more ourselves
By humbly living out what I know to be true
Matthew 6:9 So then, this is how you should pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.
Ernie’s Principle Stack
Standard- Love the Lord my God with:
- ALL my heart: Desire / Intent
- ALL my soul: Emotion / Reaction
- ALL my mind: Thoughts / Words
- ALL my strength: Acts / Choices
- Love my Family as I love my Self
- Love my Others as Jesus loved me [was 5]
- Engage with the World to do the above better
- Make Disciples who do the above through the Power of the Cross
4/3 Limerick: In God Wee Trust
StandardThough we are lighter than dust
It matters in which God we trust
If we dare His face
Our cross unlocks grace
And heaven breaks through worldly crust
He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man planted in his field.
Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”
Matthew 13:31-32
Dream: Duck Type Casting
StandardIf it walks like a duck…
I think we are making a children’s TV show.
These kids are in love with an actual duck.
Who doesn’t do much.
Like Phineas & Ferb with Perry.
One of the larger kids dresses up in a giant, non-realistic duck costume.
They go on various misadventures.
This intersects somehow with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Continue reading1/24 Limericks: Open Doors (God’s Back-Up Plan)
StandardAn open door’s like a blank page
That can feel like walking onstage
The fear of unknown
Or worse, being shown
I’m better off locked in a cage
12/29 Limericks: Sufficient God
StandardEl Shaddai-The All-Sufficient One
In a world that seems so inefficient
It’s hard to trust God is sufficient
When reality
Won’t let me “do me”
I feel like His love is deficient
12/3 Limericks: Playing Christ
StandardIt is fun, in our hearts, to play God
To expose our enemies’ fraud
To judge and condemn
Those women and men
Who hide behind saintly facade
Diarogue 2/7: Rogue, Wisdom
StandardEpisode #2 of The Rogue Dialogues: Inner Healing for Leadership
Continued from Rogue, War
A black-clad youth stands thoughtfully in a room. An elegant, classically-garbed woman enters.
Athena: So what did you think of my brother?
Rogue: Ares? He… wasn’t at all what I expected.
Continue readingRedeeming Ares, Part 10: House of Mouse
StandardContinued from Part 9
Prologue
I release the hand of Hermes and look around.
He has returned me from the Well of Souls to the Temple of Apollo, where my Quest began.
Apollo had demanded an offering, which turned out to be my Pride.
Eventually I turned it over to Zeus, who —
instead of destroying my Pride — reformed it into a Key.
This opened the door to a confrontation with Satan, from which I escaped bearing…
“A mouse!”
Apollo Smintheus
Continue readingRedeeming Ares, Part 4: Chiron Feeding
StandardContinued from Part 3.
Prologue
“Go away, leave me alone!”
I am stunned.
Not just by the rude un-greeting.
But by the ramshackle hut Charon left me at
After departing the homely heaven of Hestia’s kitchen
“Fine!”
My twelve-year-old self snaps back.
“I didn’t want to get schooled by you anyway, you mangy old horse-man.
I’ll just sit here and eat the lunch Hestia gave me, until the bus comes to take me back.”
Suddenly there’s a loud but brief galloping.
The door opens.
Revealing an old
Disheveled
Yet still mighty
Centaur
Chiron
Continue readingThe Unspeakable
StandardWe cannot say
What God is
Only THAT He is
The Weakest Warrior (A Psalm of Ernie)
StandardContinue readingThe eyes of the Lord are upon even the weakest worshipers who love him— those who wait in hope and expectation for the strong, steady love of God.”
Psalms 33:18 TPT
The Universal Commandment
StandardEnjoy, Love & Glorify
God, Ourselves & Others
As Jesus Does
Corollary: The Meaning of Life
God, Us & Others
Enjoying, Loving, & Glorifying,
God, Ourselves, Others & the World
God Loves Us Like Jesus: A Six Syllable Gospel (Childlike Theology)
Standard[Now part 1 of 6 in a series on Childlike Theology]
Since my son’s second set of seasons, I’ve sought a scalable summary of the gospel. Something simple enough to be sung by a six-year-old, yet sufficiently sophisticated to stun seminarians for centuries. Here’s my most successful statement so far:
God Loves Us Like Jesus
Simultaneously saying, in short, that the Father loves in the way:
- Jesus loves us
- He loves Jesus
- that makes us more like Jesus
Submitting to that sort of Savior is a sweet smell to our spirit, but a shocking scare to our sin! Continue reading
Evangel, Part III: The Good News
Standard“For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.” — John 3:16-17
LEAD! B.6 From Greed to Generosity
StandardIn Which We Gain Power Over Money By Giving It Away
“Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.” — Matthew 5:7
Even if we escape the pride of trusting completely in our own “name”, we still must guard against trusting in things instead of God. The purest form of this is greed or avarice, which can be defined as treating money as an “end” — i.e., an extension of the self. This is in contrast to generosity, which considers money primarily a “means” of showing mercy to others.
Assigned Reading
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Peter Kreeft: Back to Virtue
- 8. Giving Mercy vs. Getting Things (Avarice)
- Dick Hockett: Foundations of Wisdom
- 3.3 (Righteous) Example: Proverbs about the Tongue
LEAD! A.9 Spirit’s Conviction
StandardIn Which Jesus Sends the Comforter, and We Are Convicted By Him
This week we move from the Father and the Son to the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit. This also continues our theme of God restoring His Image by saving us from our rebellion. And as usual, there is a heavy price to be paid…
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