Paradox
“My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness”:
The weakness, silence and death of dûwmîyâh (דּוּמִיָּה) in an experiential synthesis of a mysterious paradox
The Scriptural witness to paradox as that which expresses Eternity breaking into the finite, fallen realm
The Place Where Paradox Speaks:
The Coincidence of Opposites: An entrance into greater fullness or a passage into the borderlands of deception?
The Place Where Eternity Whispers:
Affliction, Suffering and the Sacrament of the Present Moment
Self-Knowledge (& Self-Deception)
What is the Riddle of the Sphinx?
Part I. The origins
Part II. From sight to blindness; blindness to sight
The False Heart Amplified or The True Heart Revealed:
Poetry and religion in expressing, confronting Reality as it really is, Stephen Crane, the Ten Plagues and the state of the heart
Healing
From the “stoa” of ancient Greece through Athanasius and Calvin into the world of modern neuroscience
Basil of Caesarea’s “New City” of healing
Amidst the rubble of famine, disease, greed and social collapse
Abba Zosimas: Conflict, Criticism & the “Burning Medicine of Jesus”
Confronting bondage and breaking through into Kingdom deliverance & healing:
Josiah Centeno: “Let me show you the King by showing you His Kingdom” (Audio + Video)
Sabbath Rest: “The Sabbath Day and the Orientation of the Whole Created Order towards Worship of God”:
DFK’s final chapter of “Creation & Change”
The Greek Language
The Timeless Tense
Part I. The Aorist (A + Horízō) in the Incarnation: The fullness of eternity piercing the “horizons” of time
Miscellaneous
The Prayer of the Publican, The Jesus Prayer, Merkabah (“chariot”) Mysticism and Modern Hymnody
Love, Prophecy & Words of Knowledge: An experiential Synthesis
Jon Rosene (audio + video) with a word on Spiritual Gifts in light of Christian Mysticism
Flourishing
The Dual Nature of Flourishing:
From Psalm 73 (through II Corinthians) to Psalm 92—The continual tension between true and counterfeit flourishing
A Flourishing Life? The tension of life lived between the 3rd and 4th dimensions and the paradoxical pathway through
Suffering
The Metanoiaics of Suffering:
Part I.
Part II. Dimensional insight from the Parable of the Wheat and Tares: “An enemy has done this…”
Part III.
Suffering Mindsets: “Constant and perpetual gratitude in and for everyone and everything, in all circumstances, particularly in afflictions and in sufferings” (Fr. Thomas Hopko, Audio)
Faith, Hope & Love: A Pastoral & Theological Meditation on Suffering (Kelly Kapic, Audio + Video)
Lectures and Conference Addresses
Bob Doe:
A Glimpse of Kingdom-Centered Healthcare in Action
From Dartmouth to the Prisons of PA to Kona, HI
The formation of Kingdom healthcare models with the spiritual gifts operating and the power to heal (Audio + Video)
Blair Smith: The Word
“Working miracles, transforming lives & calling worlds into existence”
Brewer Ames: Reclaiming the Heavens:
A Christocentric Cosmology for an Age of Collapse
Jon Rosene: Love, Prophecy & Words of Knowledge: An experiential Synthesis (audio + video)
With a word on spiritual gifts in light of Christian mysticism
Ron Klaus: “The only thing more foolish than counseling a demon is casting out a psychological problem”: Five decades of insight into dealing with the demonic
Part I: Introduction
Part II. The Etiology of Evil: The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Part III. Models of Deliverance Ministry
Robin Phillips: “Gratitude in Life’s Trenches”: An Interview (Audio + Text)
Microchurches: The living organism of a developing, innovative, resilient church within the context of rapid change and the koinonia of suffering: Insights from East Asia (Audio)
The Fourth Way: Experiential insight into discipleship in a closed country amidst civil war and pandemic (Audio)
Discipleship as a Path of Stewarding Hope with Persevering Grit: I Sam 17:54, An Historical Synthesis from Abraham through David to Calvary (Audio)
How do webs of glass pierce solid stone?
Supporting immense structures for a thousand years?
Through which the light and creative beauty of Reality shine through?
These series of blogs will examine the structures of reality as viewed through a four-fold prism:
The Elements:
Hebrew and Greek word studies approaching each word as a kind of elemental life form developed in the narrative womb of Scripture.
The Season:
Key writings from each century of the Church up until the present era, viewing them from the dimension of theology, medicine, literature and art.
The Life Stage:
The Historical narrative of succeeding eras examined as a matrix of interconnected, living narratives.
The Eternal Kingdom:
The unfolding and flourishing of life within the Kingdom of God.