The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14
Deveiling is in the details
That redemptive glory entails
We must confront sin
To learn how to win
As Jesus did, scorning the nails
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Matthew 7:14 (KJV)
How much does my sin weigh
I ask you Lord today
What gravity is pulling me
So that I fall astray
The cultivation or culture of grapes, especially for wine making
Viticulture
Though Culture may think it’s divine
It must draw its strength from a Vine
Of holiness there is but one
Who’s fit to make us wholly won
His love we don’t doubt
Christ came inside-out
That we may live out what He’s done
“And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.””
Matthew 3:17
2023: Our Year of the Lord’s Favor
I want to be known as Your favor-ite
Celebrating how we two are tight
If we want to inherit heaven
We must learn to recognize leaven
Each small compromise
That clouds up our eyes
Til we can’t tell cursin’ from blessin’
The reason we’re trapped by this thing
Is we have made comfort our king
My power ensures
My pain quickly cures
Regardless of Your suffering
So we must learn to face our hurt
To let Christ His Kingdom assert
As He heals our eyes
We soon recognize
Our crosses to crowns He’ll convert!
If we hope to finish the race
We must be willing to face
The limits of our competence
Even before we commence
Load-bearing beams are the psychological/spiritual “strongmen” that limit our capacity to cultivate Christ-like redemptive relationships
Continue readingDesire itself is not sin
Yet reveals where we’re broken within
It may strike a chord
But can’t be my Lord
Just shows me where Christ need to win
Today I will be fully woke
Continue readingBut to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.
John 1:12-13 NLT
They are reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God
That which cannot be borne
Must be born again
Only those hearts that are torn
Can learn to beat without sin
Continue reading“For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.”
Romans 6:14 NKJV
The purpose is pleasure is “good”
To help us to learn what we should
But by that same token a trap
Distracting us into mishap
To deal with our sin that’s remaining
We must plug the holes that are draining
By facing our shame
Thru power of The Name
‘Til only His Grace is left reigning
We must default to finding
The good despite the blinding
Of our sin
As we begin
In Christ, our Self unwinding
“God, do You hear when I call?
Why don’t You come fix it all?”
His words, though quite painful, rang true
“My son, that is why I made you!”
Some times our pain
Is due to our sin
We hurt ourselves
Or God calls us in
The reason the universe
Seems poorly designed
Is what we call EVIL
Is LIVE mis-aligned
We’d much rather they’d bought the farm
(those Others who do to us harm)
Or at least find a way
To do as we say
Lest they be led off by gendarme!
‘Tis true that this world’s full of woe
And it feels like the further we go
In following Christ
We pay a steep price
And oft receive blow upon blow
Radically Happy 
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