Tag: grace
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Limerick: Tempting Gifts
When we are still under Law Temptation will stick in our craw
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The Rogue Dialogues: Inner Healing for Leadership
This was my attempt to make peace with the “part” of me that had an unfortunate history of sabotaging my relationships with authority figures.
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Poem: Supple-Mental Peace
My mind demands a rigid peace That makes all disagreement cease Where every truth can stand alone As I regard them from my throne. The problem with this glorious view Is that it has no room for you For if your truth conflicts with mine Then on your entrails I…
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Poem: Redemption Value
Our value to this world Is only what we’ve earned Trapped inside a rat race Measured by Law instead of Grace
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Poem: Belong vs Beshort vs Betall
If in Christ We’d be free From its snares We must flee But the next Trap we face Is to judge Without grace
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Grace Barriers, Reefed
The natural state of God is Unison The natural state of humans is Division And… That is as it should be
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Three Dimensions of Christian Identity
Position: We are already completely accepted as the Father’s beloved children Process: We are still becoming redemptive co-heirs with Jesus Perception: We develop this identity in (not from) community as we practice reconciliation by hearing and obeying the Spirt
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Grace Conductor
Lord, make me the Third Rail of grace Purify me So that your love and faithfulness Flows dangerously through me
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The Quantum of Solace
Each pain and frustration Whatever the cause Only serves as a trigger To let You heal MY flaws
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Regenerative Grace
The Law is great for scaling A fundamental insight But is inherently static and preserving Not generative. To avoid breakdown Is also to resist breakthrough
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Fruit of the Spirit vs Veggies of the Law/Jellies of the Flesh
Perhaps like you, I had subconsciously assumed that Fruit of the Spirit meant I myself was feeling more love, joy, peace, etc. But once I reimagined Fruit as “experiences we give others that contain the seed of Christ,” I started to get really excited.
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The Amygdala Gospel: Rewiring How We Grow Closer to Jesus
When Jesus said we must deny ourselves, I think He meant the amygdala.
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Core Grace Training
Core Graceis the abilityto hold the tensionbetween affirmingmy own individualityand acknowledging the legitimacyof other’s needslong enoughfor Jesus to crucifymy self-centered false identityand revealHis greater redemptionfor all of us. In other words,(by analogy with core strength training)it is what enable usto substitute Christ-like Responsesfor selfish Reactions Backstory
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Dream: Yellow Candy Grace
My friend and I are hard-luck kids In Sunday School He’s dying of cancer. The teachers try to take an offering Of the bright yellow candy we both like But rarely get
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DBJ Family Edition (John 13)
A simplified version of DBJ-LOVE-5 we used with our parents and kids.
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Correcting Jesus
This is quite likely the most foolish and arrogant story I have ever attempted: trying to improve upon how Jesus responded to Peter’s rebuke. Nevertheless, if I am to take Him at His word that we will do greater things than He did, I have to start somewhere…
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Discipling by Jesus to Align with Love
The premise of Discipling by Jesus is that uniting with Christ is what enables us to become fully human, as we learn to love our Selves and Others as Jesus does.
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