Sometime we show Mercy from Fear
Because our own judgement is near
Sometimes we show Mercy from Pride
To boast we have nothing to hide
To those who receive it’s the same
As long as they stay in the game
Tag Archives: Transformation
12/31 Poem: New Year Sieve
StandardAs we come to this New Year’s Eve
I’m wondering what I should leave
12/29 Limericks: Sufficient God
StandardEl Shaddai-The All-Sufficient One
In a world that seems so inefficient
It’s hard to trust God is sufficient
When reality
Won’t let me “do me”
I feel like His love is deficient
11/10 Limerick: Renewable Hearts
StandardToday I will share liberty
with those who wound my heart
10/13 Limerick: Well Unsettled
StandardI long to live life well settled
So I can act as fine fettled
But God stirs my pot
So every thought
Is rebrewed as something Christ-kettled
10/4 Limerick: Forgiven Love
StandardWe serve others because we love Jesus
We love Him because He has freed us
The deeper love goes
The more that we show
The world how to live as redeemers
Poem: Fix It All
Standard“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!”
Limerick: Come, Passion
StandardIn a world where sufferings out of fashion
Christ calls us to live with compassion
As we train our brain
To not flee from pain
His Kingdom, to our world, will crash in
Poem: Imitable Love
Standard“Treat your enemies the way
Luke 6:27 (paraphrased)
You want them to treat theirs”
Saving the world
Is really quit simple
If we learn to be
More imitable
Poem: Outward Concern
StandardI know that I should
Strive to be good
And not just obsess
Over my own distress
Poem: One Change
StandardWhat is one change we can make
That will cause all our hearts to un-break?
The smallest bit flip, like a lever
That makes “certain” what once was “never?”
7/29 RSVP: Up-Ending Authority
StandardChrist did not just come
To up-end
Corrupt human authority
Sex 207. Loving Life
StandardConcluding the story from Sex 206. Loving Father
Prologue
I am trapped in the Bar of Hell.
Watching my Father guzzle
All the shame, suffering and sin
Of the whole world
With such agonizing joy
That my soul yearns
To join Him
The Cup
I grab my tiny Cup, full of ruby liquid, and slam it down my throat.
I have tasted all the pleasures of this world, from the sublime heights of philosophy to the sordid depths of passion.
All start out sweet as honey to my mouth, but end up bitter as gall in my stomach.
This… is the reverse.
Continue readingSystematic Graceology
StandardThe ultimate purpose and practice of Spiritual Formation is:
- Identifying the Anxieties for which we currently lack Grace
- Training us to Catharize them by the Cross of Christ
More formally:
Continue readingTranscending Love
StandardGrace Conductor
StandardLord, make me the Third Rail of grace
Continue readingIGWET Statement of Faith
Standard- Praise
Romans 8:28 And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. - Word
2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness, - Spirit
John 14:26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you. - Body
Romans 12:5 so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another. - Blood
1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. - Mission
Matthew 28:18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
20 and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” - Reflection
Philippians 3:13 Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.
TGR-S6E2: Loving the World as Jesus Does
StandardThis week on The Great Reset, our Producer Ted Hahs shares his passion for loving the world (and each other) the way Jesus does.
Q. How can we better recognize the awesomeness of the many people attempting great things for God?
P: Providing a platform for them to share their story and vision in order to garner support.
Continue readingTGR-S3E5: Practicing Relational Unity
StandardWe pivot our discussion of the Biastes Co-Discipleship Network, for the 1pm PST Tuesday, Aug 4, 2020 episode of The Great Reset, to take on the challenge of creating relational unity.
Two Questions
- What about the Body of Christ most breaks the heart of God?
- What is the impossible thing that, if we were able to do it, would change everything?
Perspective
Continue readingMay they all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us, so that the world may believe you sent me.
John 17:21
TGR-S3E3: Networked Transformation Circles
StandardBuilding on last week’s pitch for the Biastes Co-Discipleship Network, our 1pm PST Tuesday, July 21, 2020 episode of The Great Reset proposes a new building block for the Body of Christ.
Question
What is the most effective and scalable context for co-constructing disciples of Jesus?
Radically Happy 
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