I like to hide behind words
Invoking past truths I have heard
So I can gain
Without facing pain
Things I have merely observed
Tag Archives: power
Poem: Poor Choice
StandardWho in this world
Would choose to be poor
When glory and power
Grace those who have more?
Poem: Gospel Flywheel
StandardThe gospel flywheel
Transforms what’s real
Frees the world from sin
As I’m changed within
Weakly Knews
StandardThe power that I never knew
Is weakness revealing what’s true
For when I reach my end
The cross starts to mend
Those hearts that were broken in two!
8/1 RSVP: Buying Needles to Strain Camels (The Purpose of Wealth)
StandardMatthew 23:24 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
This may sound bizarre, but see if you can follow my logic:
Continue readingLimerick: Powerfully Weak
StandardTo bring forth the change that we seek
We must become powerfully weak
For when we are empty
God gives us His plenty
Thus by our redemption Christ speaks
Mighty Weak
StandardOnly when we are weak
In ourselves
Can we be mighty
In Him
God brings us to the end
Of all that we trust
So Discipling by Him
Begins
Death Benefit
StandardChrist died to kill sin
So that we could become
One
With Him
In Him
For Him
Unearthly Power
StandardWe are so easily infatuated
And subtly captivated
By the powers of this world
The mimetic desires
At the heart of our communities
Even Christian ones Continue reading
Holy Hunger
StandardThe Holiest Hunger is
The Hunger for Holiness
There are many ways
To Hunger for God
All of them good
Most of them tainted
Mary’s Christmas: A Lament
StandardO God, why me?
Why does it have to be me?
Why did you have to choose me?
TGR-S3E4-OLD The Internet of Teams
StandardContinuing our discussion of the Biastes Co-Discipleship Network, our 1pm PST Tuesday, July 28, 2020 episode of The Great Reset proposes a radical new social architecture that aligns our solutions with human need, rather than vice versa.
Question
What would it take for us to become more effective at curing systemic inequity and relational brokenness?
Continue readingTGR-S2E4 Teaching Repentance
StandardWe continue this Season’s focus on The Great Reset of Education at Tuesday 6/9, 1 PM Pacific. In particular, we are wrestling with hard questions of justice and repentance in light of the recent killing of George Floyd.
Question: How do we teach people where they need to repent?
- What should followers of Jesus condemn?
- What would that require us to tolerate?
Perspective:
- Judging others from a position of Power
- Judging behavior from a position of Authority
- Judging ourselves from a position of Vulnerability
LEAD! C.7 Silence and Solitude
StandardIn Which We Withdraw From The World To Draw Near To God
The modern world considers solitary confinement and enforced silence as among the worst long-term punishments — with good reason; it is a terrifying thing to be cut off from the consolations and diversions of society. And yet, the very severity of that terror hints at the fertile spiritual soil to be uncovered when we deliberately cultivate time away from the distractions of ordinary human life…
Memory Verse: “Now when it was day, He departed and went into a deserted place. And the crowd sought Him and came to Him, and tried to keep Him from leaving them; but He said to them, ‘I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent.’ “ — Luke 4:42-43 (NKJV)
Assigned Reading
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Richard Foster: Celebration of Discipline
- 7. Solitude
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Donald Whitney: Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
- 10. Silence and Solitude
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Eugene Peterson: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
- 7. Security: “God Encircles His People”
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Ruth Haley Barton: Sacred Rhythms
- 2. Solitude: Creating Space for God
Radically Happy 