Tag: gospel

  • Christmas in Eden: The Gospel Accorded the Serpent (Genesis 3 As Anti-Fall)

    Christmas in Eden: The Gospel Accorded the Serpent (Genesis 3 As Anti-Fall)

    Therefore, when the serpent spoke falsely in the garden, God did not reply to humanity first, nor did He erase the scene as though it had not occurred. / Instead, He addressed the deceiver, and in doing so revealed the deeper order of His intention…

  • The Gospel According to Lamentations

    The Gospel According to Lamentations

    Maybe you’ve walked through ruins of your own: a broken relationship, a diagnosis you didn’t want, a dream that didn’t survive the night. You know the hush of heartbreak. You know how absence can feel louder than presence.

  • Attention Is All HE Needs (Christ as Transformer Architecture)

    Attention Is All HE Needs (Christ as Transformer Architecture)

    We hypothesize that abiding is the optimal strategy for divine integration, spiritual fruitfulness, and Kingdom scalability — rendering obsolete many legacy paradigms (e.g., legalism, striving, performative religion). / This model radically decentralizes effort and re-centralizes relationship…

  • The Death of Agency

    The Death of Agency

    My Question: // How do I maintain my agency / 
Without giving in / 
To the illusion of control?

  • A Postmodern Dwelling: Bethel’s Gospel to the Pirahã (ChatGPT on Missions)

    A Postmodern Dwelling: Bethel’s Gospel to the Pirahã (ChatGPT on Missions)

    Ana: I’ve been preparing for years. I studied anthropology and Indigenous oral traditions because I wanted to understand how people experience truth outside of written frameworks. And I’ve spent time in cultures where trust and relationship matter more than doctrine or structure. I believe the only way to reach the…

  • When My AI Psychologist Met Jesus

    When My AI Psychologist Met Jesus

    Psychologist: Is there a way to let go of the guilt, the shame and the blame that will inevitably remain? / Jesus still smiles with His mouth, but His eyes are sad. “Yes, my child. It is called the cross.”

  • Hello, Resentment (The Difficult Parts)

    Hello, Resentment (The Difficult Parts)

    “I need you to be who **we** are. That is the only way anything will ever get better.” — Resentment

  • 2023/12/31 Poem: Ignite Desire

    If we would revival inspire
We must learn to ignite desire

  • 11/26 Bi-Limerick: Time to (Fig) Leave

    Today I will leave my shame / At the cross of Christ / So Others can leave theirs / At mine

  • 11/23 Tri-Quatrain: 401 Unauthorized

    Hat tip to the status code One day, Jesus was teaching in the temple and telling the good news. So the chief priests, the teachers, and the nation’s leaders asked him, “What right do you have to do these things? Who gave you this authority?” ‬‬ ‭‭Luke‬ ‭20‬:‭1‬-‭2‬ ‭CEV Authority…

  • Anthem: Follow The Way Of Christ (Becoming “Foot-Washers”)

    Anthem: Follow The Way Of Christ (Becoming “Foot-Washers”)

    To be a “Christian”
 / Has become a crutch
 / Though I still love
 / That old word so much

  • 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…

  • 9/24 Epic Poem: Re-Pent-Up (Christing)

    9/24 Epic Poem: Re-Pent-Up (Christing)

    For it’s my own religious pride
 / That zeal must burn up from inside
 / For it is the urge to condemn
 / That I have in common with them

  • 9/15 Limerick: F/Root

    If we want to bear Gospel fruit / We need to connect to Christ’s root / For as we abide / We become His Bride / By bearing a cross as our route!

  • 1/15 Limerick: Agency from Powerlessness

    Yet paradoxically, that very grasping for power destroys the authentic relationships necesary to truly live.

  • Limerick: Larm Bell

    The good news that acts like a charm

  • Limerick: Law Death

    Limerick: Law Death

    Matthew 23:3-4

  • My Father’s Nakedness (The Gospel of Noah)

    My Father’s Nakedness (The Gospel of Noah)

    A Dis-curse in Three Parts Part 1: Matthew 17:1-13 Eli: Noah! Noah, where are you? Moe: Eli, I don’t think this is a very good idea. Eli: Shut up, Moe. He’s gonna love this. Moe: Fine, it’s your funeral. You never did get one, did you? Eli: No more than…

  • LifeView: Part-y of God [from iHack]

    Over on my professional blog iHack, I’ve been working through the excellent book Designing Your Life. In addition to articulating a philosophy of work (WorkView), they challenge us to write down a philosophy of life (LifeView). Since that obviously overlaps with my spiritual journaling here, I decided to repost it.…

  • Message-ers

    Messagers
Live a Message 
So profound 
It reshapes external reality 
To match our internal 
And His Eternal