When we obey Christ with whole hearts
That’s when deep redemption can start
As we see His face
We’re filled up with grace
And what divides us falls apart
Tag Archives: grace
Poetry Slam: Pro-Dem-Nation
StandardIn a world filled
with condemnation
Could His Bride become
a pro-them-nation?
Limerick: Loving Enmity
StandardWe’d much rather they’d bought the farm
(those Others who do to us harm)
Or at least find a way
To do as we say
Lest they be led off by gendarme!
Poem: Gospel Flywheel
StandardThe gospel flywheel
Transforms what’s real
Frees the world from sin
As I’m changed within
Divorcing the War on Marriage
StandardIn the conservative Christian circles I live in, we often talk about the war on marriage: how the laws of our culture must uphold the biblical pattern against those who would seek to redefine it.
While that may be true, we seem to be ignoring a painful reality. The church lost that same war decades ago: on the issue of divorce. Maybe we should take the time to understand why before we make the same mistakes all over again.
Continue readingLimerick: Disowned Will
StandardChrist Kingdom becomes most effective
When each of us owns our Perspective
And yet our own Will
We’re willing to kill
To live His collective directive
Honoring Bill Johnson
StandardBill Johnson of Bethel Church in Redding is truly one of God’s greatest gifts to the 21st century church. At a time when many (perhaps most) Christians unthinkingly accept the brokenness of this world as “just the way things are”, He has both preached and practiced the vital truth that Christ came to give us victorious life.
He has led Bethel for decades with humility, integrity, and compassion — including a perhaps unprecedented openness to raising up and blessing other leaders. I wish more leaders were like him.
But to be honest, sometimes he drives me crazy.
Continue readingLimerick: Favor Found-er
StandardGenesis 6:8 Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
We need a foundation that’s sounder
When taking the role of a founder
The problems are hairy
Competitors scary
And often we find ourselves flounder
Limerick: Dis-Grace
StandardThere’s a grace that comes from being dissed
When our quest for truth makes the world p*ssed
Though it may lead to sin
It still makes God grin
By incarnating Christ in our midst
Poem: Outward Concern
StandardI know that I should
Strive to be good
And not just obsess
Over my own distress
Law Detox
StandardPoem: Consumption Presumption
StandardToday I will BE God’s work before I DO it
It’s tempting to see God’s power
As something we rent by the hour
I feel like He needs my direction
Since His work is all at my discretion!
Sex 202. Loving Terrorsaur
Standard[Part of a series that may never see the light of day, but this episode felt good enough to publish on its own.]
She is not an object of desire.
She is not even human.
Yet she is my next quest.
Pterosaur
Continue readingWADACAM! Men’s Weekend (Fall 2022)
StandardDetails TBD: Probably Labor Day Weekend somewhere in Northern California
WADACAM! Weekend Workshop is a mashup spiritual retreat and boot camp. The goal is to equip men to succeed in their most important and difficult challenges (i.e., relationships). We do this by tapping into the power of the cross via an innovative small group process known as Rings of Reconciling (pronounced “RoR!”).
Continue readingLimerick: Law Death
StandardLimerick: Tempting Gifts
StandardWhen we are still under Law
Temptation will stick in our craw
For if we give in
We know its a sin
But we can’t unsee what we saw
Yet when we are living by Grace
Temptation’s a whole ‘nother place
Our hunger for sin
Reveals what’s within
And makes us to seek out His Face
The Rogue Dialogues: Inner Healing for Leadership
StandardEnd Notes
The Rogue Dialogues (aka “Diarogues“) are a series of stream-of-consciousness narratives I wrote while alone in my room from July 3-6, 2022, unemployed and quarantined with COVID-19. This was my attempt to make peace with the “part” of me that had an unfortunate history of sabotaging my relationships with authority figures.
Continue readingPoem: Supple-Mental Peace
StandardToday I will hold fast to the cross
And loosely to all else
Poem: Redemption Value
StandardThe song of the redeemed
Is we are no longer
What we seemed
Our value to this world
Is only what we’ve earned
Trapped inside a rat race
Measured by Law instead of Grace
Poem: Belong vs Beshort vs Betall
StandardThe first way
We go wrong
Is to try
To Belong
This world
And it’s sin
Is the place
We begin
Radically Happy 
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