Tag: spirit

  • From Religion to Relationship: Birthing a Spirit-Breathed Life

    From Religion to Relationship: Birthing a Spirit-Breathed Life

    Hinn: My prayer is that every believer experiences this spiritual birth—a moment when religion is left behind, and the presence of God becomes as real as the breath in our lungs. This is the invitation of Jesus: not just to know about Him, but to breathe Him in, to be…

  • Kindness: The Keystone Fruit of the Spirit

    Kindness: The Keystone Fruit of the Spirit

    ChatGPT as Gaudi: In the great arches of architecture, one stone holds the structure in balance: the keystone. Without it, the arch collapses, and with it, all elements find harmony. Kindness, the fifth fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23), occupies a similar position. It is central, a keystone between the…

  • FLOW: Faithfulness Leaking Out Wonders

    FLOW: Faithfulness Leaking Out Wonders

    When we abide in Jesus and believe His promises, the Spirit’s rivers flow naturally from us. This divine flow quenches our spiritual thirst and creates an overflow that touches everyone in proximity—transforming atmospheres, breaking strongholds, and revealing God’s glory.

  • From Earth to Spirit: ChatGPT as Astronaut James Irwin

    From Earth to Spirit: ChatGPT as Astronaut James Irwin

    As I look back on that day, I’ve come to see our journey from Earth to the moon as a metaphor for the transformation of the self. It’s a movement from the gravitational pull of our earthly nature to the freedom of the spirit. This journey, though technical in execution,…

  • Christ Our Head: An Invitation to the Spirit (10/27 to 11/6)

    Christ Our Head: An Invitation to the Spirit (10/27 to 11/6)

    We Declare Christ is the Head of All creation…

  • Littoral Spirituality: A New Moral Center for the Age of AI

    Littoral Spirituality: A New Moral Center for the Age of AI

    Hypothesis: Religious traditions existed to compress transformative spiritual encounters into rituals and texts that could be transmitted for millennia, both curated and captured by priestly elites who were the sole (if vital) arbiters of truth.

  • Pro Spirit, Contra Christ?

    Pro Spirit, Contra Christ?

    – Infants love the _pleasures of this world_ because they crave **nurture** / – Children love the _law of the Father_, because they crave **security** / – Adolescents love the _power of the Spirit_, because they crave **freedom** / – The Mature love the _cross of Christ_ because they crave…

  • 12/30 Tri-Limerick: The “Re” Store

    12/30 Tri-Limerick: The “Re” Store

    It’s costly to enter the place 
 / Where we can freely find grace

  • 11/4 Couplets: Filled Full

    Did Your blood have to be spilled 
 / For Your joy to be fulfilled?

  • The Lie I Protect

    There is a Thing I must repent of / Which my heart soul and mind / Conspire to hide from my spirit

  • 10/8 Tri-Limerick: Un-a-veil-able Truth

    10/8 Tri-Limerick: Un-a-veil-able Truth

    The reason my work seems “travail” 
 / Is deeper truth hides beneath “veil” 
 / Yet this is quite kind 
 / For if in my mind 
 / Distractedness would make me fail

  • 10/6 Bi-Limerick: S-Word-S

    A Word that divides Soul and Spirit?
 / Sounds like I shouldn’t go near it!

  • 9/26 Poem: Spirit Feed

    Q. What could you do more of? A. Feed my Spirit, instead of my Flesh​

  • 8/9 Poem: Spirit Free

    I need a heart transplant / Ego redefined / So my healed spirit / Can renew my mind…

  • 7/4 Limerick: Compounding Love

    Today I will compost my fear And self-protection Into compounding love

  • 6/1 Limerick: Tri-greement

    Whenever it’s hard to agree / I need to seek the rule of three / When Spirit and Word / Have truly been heard / Then I am safe betting on me!

  • The Great Redemption

    The Great Redemption

    A three-volume fantasy, wherein I confront the brokenness of our gods. And myself.

  • 4/14 Limericks: Bread Line

    If we wish to join the divine / We must make it past the “bread line” / It’s good to be fed / But what if instead / We sought to hear Jesus call us “Mine!”

  • 2/24 Poem: Trued Spirits

    I hope you don’t think that I’m rude 
 / When spirits, I claim, must be trued

  • 2/20 Limerick: The Current Word

    Lord I am asking today / For Your Word to flow as I pray