“No one, Lord,” she answered. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Now go and sin no more.”
John 8:11
If we want a world
Where no one condemns
We must live a life
Of “Grace comprehends”
“No one, Lord,” she answered. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Now go and sin no more.”
John 8:11
If we want a world
Where no one condemns
We must live a life
Of “Grace comprehends”
Everything that is alive
Needs some kind of Law to survive
Internalized norms we enforce
So all of our parts stay on course
It isn’t exactly a flaw
That we tend to mirror the law
The boundary
Between you and me
Is how we “identity” claw
The cause of our worst maladies
Is our deep insecurities
That cause us to chafe
At Law, to feel safe
From those who seem our enemies
The alternative remedy
Is finding true adequacy
By sharing Christ’s cross
We win from each loss
And turn our shame to His glory
If I’m to make peace in this bod
I must learn to seek praise from God
Voices in my head fight and war
So they can choose what I’m for
I am walking my dogs Qhuinn and Frolic on their yoke leash, as usual.
I pass a bit of small dog poop.
I wonder if I should pick it up.
This is not a simple question…
Continue readingIt may cause our hearts to be riled
But Lord Jesus cannot be filed
His love is too great
Towards those that we hate
For breaking the Laws we compiled
Continue reading“For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.”
Romans 6:14 NKJV
#BreakTheCycle (of condemnation)
Continue readingThe legalist earns our respect
For reasons we ought to inspect
He’s willing to hold up the wall
Without which our culture will fall
In 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 readingWhen 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 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
The first way
We go wrong
Is to try
To Belong
This world
And it’s sin
Is the place
We begin
In the Kingdom
Of this world
We define good news
Via the Law
We are glad
When we find a good law
Overturn a bad law
Or escape a harsh law
That is only natural
Continue readingThe natural state of God
is Unison
The natural state of humans
is Division
We are divided from God
Each other and ourselves
And…
That is as it should be
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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