Tag: love
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Poem: Out of Favor
In families small Or social wide To save our face We take a side To break this cycle Of decay We need to find A better way
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Hate Right
And all of those foes That I once found so dreary I count now as gifts In fact, make me cheery! So the only hate now Is what I have toward The sin of my flesh That keeps me from my Lord
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Transcending Love
If I don’t believe you rejoice in my presence, I will naturally either become desperate for your approval, or find ways to denigrate the worth of your opinion. This is how we sort ourselves into tribes. This is how we feel safe. This is how… we crucify Christ.
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Fruit vs Counter-Fruit
We were created To cultivate And consume The Fruit of the Spirit We are so desperate for fruit We will fake it With counterfeit Counter-Fruit
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Dream: Border Crossing
Einstein taught us that this world Is mostly illusion The only true real thing is will Or Spirit, if you prefer The universe only gives us What we truly and deeply want The way we demonstrate that Is by how we engage with the illusion Through planning, preparation, and execution
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Dream: Possum Player
I break character I ask the actress Who is playing her Whether I Am interacting with her enough
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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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See The World
To see The world Through Another’s Eyes Is Love Is Empathy Is Essential Is Impossible
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Immanuel Encounter: Into the Woods
I am in the woods at IVCF camp in Massachusetts At the moonlit lake I remember from my college days Jesus is there I am seven years old It is daytime I wish we could stay like this forever Young Innocent Happy
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Socrates Evangelion (Beyond “Apology”)
A powerfully-built young man stands on the walls of Athens. His face is torn between Hope and Sorrow. He has clearly been there a while, staring into the west as the sun sets. Finally he sighs and turns to return home. Just before he descends he glances back for one…
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Prayer Bears
The primary job of prayer Is that love we bear We may think we care Yet we rarely dare To give more than our share
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Redeeming Ares, Part 0
Continued from Redeeming Aphrodite Ernie: You again? I thought Hades replaced you! Ares: Dream on. Even Haphaestus wants me back. Needs me, even. E. But you’re the personification of rape, sadism, and uncontrolled violence! A. So?
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Playlist DBJ-GTEM: Going The Extra Mile
Overcoming enmity, by going the extra mile, in order to grow us all closer to Jesus. See also: DBJ-SHON: Salome’s Honor DBJ-MOGA: Moses Overcomes God’s Anger (Exodus 32)
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Dream: Love Story
There is a story within the story One story is a fairy tale. Sort of like Beauty and the Beast.
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DBJ-MOGA: Moses Overcomes God’s Anger (Exodus 32)
Register now! At 2-4pm on Sunday, July 18th we will ask Jesus to disciple us through one of the most confusing and disturbing passages in all of Scripture, at least to me: Exodus 32, where Moses apparently talks God out of destroying His people. Google Slides
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Dream: Lost In Transit
We are passengers on a lost flight Or maybe we knew someone who was Or maybe we are just pretending.
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Unsolicited Fatherly Advice
Based on everything I have learned over the last several years, here is my current practice for how to confront someone I love that I am concerned about. It reflects many painful learnings about what I have found to be counterproductive, but I am sure there is still room for…
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Redeeming Aphrodite: Girls Knight Out (Part 11)
Continued from Part 10 Prologue I stand in the Box of Hades Holding the hand of Eve. While the Multitude tears Adam to shreds. Over and over and over again. Time seems to stop. Or perhaps speed up to infinity. We are frozen somewhere between horror and awe. By the…
Radically Happy 