Together with the Spirit of the Lord, we declare 2023 the year of the Lord’s favor for our family.
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11/13 Limericks: AgreeMensch
StandardI want to be an agree-mensch
Instead of just sitting on my bench
While Lefts & Rights
Get into fights
Giving Your body a foul stench
10/20 Limerick: Long-Hearted
StandardToday I will not short God
Continue readingSex 306: Losing Face
StandardContinued from Sex 305: Game Time
I… don’t know who I am
Or more precisely
Which I am
Limerick: Team Teem
StandardWinning as part of God’s team
Differs from what it may seem
For we do not fight
To prove we are right
But rather, that YOU we esteem!
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?”
Limerick: Under-Handed
StandardGod sometimes seems under-handed
Our suffering, as if He has planned it
It feels like our pain
Is just for His gain
And we must give what He demanded
Poem: Uncomfortably Grateful
StandardWe say that God is good
When we dine on comfort food
Much harder to confess
When we feel under duress
A Covenant for Renewal
StandardLord, unify your family, starting with mine.
Continue readingGrace Barriers, Reefed
StandardThe natural state of God
is Unison
The natural state of humans
is Division
We are divided from God
Each other and ourselves
And…
That is as it should be
Cross-Bridging: Mine the Gap
StandardWe need the Cross
As a Bridge
To the Other
To be a Self
Is to not be the Other
There must be a Gap
Between Me and You
So I know
Where you end
And I begin
Dream: Excess Baggage (On Christian Unity)
StandardOddly enough. I think this Dream is about unity in the Body of Christ. Continue reading
Whole-y Pray-ers
Standard[aka Hegelian Prayer: Asking for God’s synthesis, not just our thesis]
God wants whole-y pray-ers
Continue readingThe Spirit Of Self (from Pure Glory)
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by Apostle Gabriel Cross The Lord has revealed to me, the spirit of self, in the life of many believers, which is the spirit of division. One is divided against oneself, always second guessing themselves or what God is saying to them. The spirit of division, hinders and retards you or stops you from fulfilling […]
The Spirit Of Self — Pure Glory
TGR-S4E1: Healthy Submission
StandardWe kick off Season 4 of The Great Reset with the Biastes* on 1pm PDT Tuesday, Aug 25, 2020 by wrestling with questions of authority and submission, prompted by a viewer’s email.
Question
How should members of Christ’s Body best relate to internal and external human authorities and institutions, in order to continually increase God’s Kingdom?
TGR-S3E6: Re-Cognition of Discipleship
StandardWe wrap up this Season’s discussion of the Biastes Co-Discipleship Network on the 1pm PST Tuesday, Aug 11, 2020 episode of The Great Reset, by attempting to practice what we have been preaching.
Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other.
John 13:34-35 MSG
Question: How can we ensure we are following Jesus, not men?
Perspective: Deliberately practice loving all His followers as Jesus has loved us.
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-04: Loving The Other
StandardJoin us on Zoom or Facebook to co-create the video of this episode at 10 AM PST on Friday, April 24th, 2020 AD.
- Question: How do we love like Jesus?
- Perspective: I will love the “Other” as Jesus loved me.
- Premise: Love is a muscle that strengthens through deliberate practice
- Inspiration: “I only start counting when it starts hurting.” — Muhammad Ali
TGR-03: Wholly Broken
StandardQuestion
What does God want:
- Of us
- For Us
- From Us
Perspective
My answer: Whole-I-ness (Holiness/Wholeness)
- A whole world
- Of whole people
- Loving all of the one God
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