Tag: grace
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Wilberforce: We Need Perfume Breakers, Not New Wine Brokers
New wine is not a better law. It is not a more ethical framework, nor a more inclusive rulebook. It is the living presence of Christ Galatians 2:20—wild, liberating, uncontrollable. And He cannot be sold, only received. He cannot be managed, only magnified.
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How to Honor the Law: A Diaphoric Interview
I have spent my life teaching the moral vision of the New Testament — but I confess the question still stirs me. / Not just “How do I obey the Law?” / But how do I honor it — as Scripture, as tradition, as divine wisdom — without idolizing it?
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hel.lo.a.thing (The Un-Reconciled Part)
Youth: You… are not wrong. This is the pit that all mortal life is designed to avoid. And [looking at them with shining eyes] I thank you for the costly sacrifices you made, to keep me — us — alive.
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Danksgiving: A Ceremony for Holy Saturdays
Danksgiving is the sacred practice of giving thanks in the dark— before the miracle, without the music, still in the tomb.
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Singing to Shame: The Gospel According to K‑Pop Demon Hunters
K‑Pop Demon Hunters is not a cute fable. / It is an epistle written in fire and song. // It calls us to: • Lay down the Law as a mask for shame. • Stop exalting purity over love. • Die to our righteous personas, that Christ may live in…
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Lavina’s Unfinished Cross: Restoring Grace to The Church
…the LDS Church may be one of the few institutions left with enough moral coherence, enough theological structure, and enough sacred memory for this drama to matter—for the world to watch and learn what repentance looks like….
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Cup of Grace – Covenant of Seeing (Artifact Card)
Forged from unmade White Gold and purified into Earthpower, the Cup contains a red liquid like the Mirror of Seeing, but deeper still. To drink is to share the Cup with the Father—to see and be seen as beloved. After one sip, you know: He sees you the same.
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The Dance of Shalom: Peace as Practice, not Pursuit
Shalom is what dances in the kitchen when your heart is cracked wide open, and you still choose to lift your eyes.
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Listen to the Trees: Steve Jobs Keynote at the Millennium Design Conference
The four trees — Fig, Olive, Pomegranate, Apple — serve as living models of grace-bearing systems, each representing a different mode of transformation and contribution. Together, they form a holistic blueprint for designing resilient and regenerative human systems.
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Grace as the Anthropogonic Anomaly
In the old tongues of elves and men alike, there are many names for origin, but only a few for the Fall. / Yet fewer still dare speak plainly of that strange and wondrous thing: grace—the mystery whereby what is broken may be made whole, not by its own striving,…
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The Tree of Life: A Universal Theory of Shame, Law, and Grace
The Tree of Life—with shame as seed, law as trunk, and grace as fruit—is a universal structure. It just shows up wearing different clothes.
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The Cross as Key to Taking and Yielding Authority
In Christian leadership, spiritual growth, and community life, one of the most striking paradoxes is this: we are invited to walk in great authority, and yet, the path to that authority passes through radical surrender. / For many, this journey is hindered not by theological ignorance or moral failing, but…
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The Adjacent Impossible: A Diaphoric Take on 2 Corinthians 4
In 2 Corinthians 4, Paul does not speak as a victor. / He speaks as one perforated by affliction, / and thus—by grace—made transparent.
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Fishing for Gold: Gracious Accommodation to Unholy Systems
“We don’t actually owe them. But… let’s pay anyway. Not out of fear—out of freedom.”
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Easter Repost 2/2: Risen In Christ
> Finally, I glance at where my side was pierced, where I see that a hole still exists. I gently probe it with my fingers, and am surprised to see that the hole looks like it extends all the way to my heart! > Yet, it is positioned in such…
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The Rogue Dialogues: Inner Healing for Leadership (Podcast)
Welcome to The Rogue Dialogues: Inner Healing for Leadership, a unique podcast journey into the depths of the subconscious. Join Dr. Ernie as he explores his inner world through a series of raw and revealing stream-of-consciousness narratives, born during a period of unemployment and quarantine.
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Caffinneyated America, Part IV (Finale): Emancipating Awakening
Were there people on both sides that might have agreed on a sustainable compromise to avoid [The Civil] War? What miracle would it take to make that happen?
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Dream: Cash Flo Crisis (Alice’s Restaurant: Episode 1×04)
She ends up forging checks to cover her bills. / Then that day her paycheck arrives / Earlier than expected / And more than she imagined…
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Master of Grace, Doctor of the Cross (ChatGPT as St. Gregory the Theologian)
“Today we stand on the threshold of a world in need of healers, not mere thinkers; physicians for the soul, not just rhetoricians for the mind. Your years in Athens, the city of wisdom, have sharpened your intellect, but now you must graduate into the school of grace, where the…
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