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“Discipline is freedom.” – Jocko Willink
"NONE OF US CAN ANTICIPATE, OR EVEN KNOW IN RETROSPECT, MORE THAN A FRACTION OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF OUR ACTIONS. SO… GIVEN THIS, A SIGNIFICANT ASPECT OF WISDOM MAY ACTUALLY MEAN ACTING (OR REFRAINING FROM ACTING) IN FULL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF OUR OWN ALMOST COMPLETE...
"I WANT ALL MY HUMAN ENERGIES TO BE CHANNELED, ORDINATELY AND SUPERNATURALLY, BY YOU. ENABLE ME, O GOD, TO PARTNER WITH YOU SO AS TO MAKE SUCH A WAY OF BEING THE ENDURING REALITY OF MY LIFE." (To read more, well, just keep reading!) O Holy Trinity... With all my...
"CHASING THE FIRE… WELCOMING THE HAMMER… BECOMING A SWORD… BEDOMING UNBREAKABLE…" (To read more, well, just keep reading!) Provided below are prayers and sayings I pray over, and over, and over again while I'm out and about. Pick one today and, when you're out and...
"I AM THE VICTIM. THAT PERSON ATTACKED ME." (To read more, well, just keep reading!) If you ever have to defend yourself physically (and you survive), say these three things to the police when they show-up at the scene: 1/Tell the officers, "I am the victim." 2/Point...
Provided below are a few of the meditative sayings I recite each morning to help me "prime the pump" as I launch into Morning Worship: Dave… Take what’s Mine, and make it yours. —Jesus Nobody cares, Dave… so just work harder. —Unk [adapted] At best, “correctors...
"The Truth is… Yes, I was once A Little Child. The Truth is, too, that I (very mysteriously) still am." To read more, well, just keep reading :o)... -- Jesus... I was Once a Child; but, somewhere along the line, I forgot Who I Was. And, as a consequence, I (through...
Four Factors that Enabled The Faithful (in the first and second centuries) to Thrive [Note: Again, these overlap and are synergistic] in “this current Earth-life”… 1/The Person and Presence of The Holy Spirit. 2/The deeply supportive role of The True (and local)...
When I’m lost in rebellion and transgression, The Holy Presence of God is experienced as wrath, darkness, and dread; and all I want to do at that point is hide from Him (like Adam and Eve did when they fell [see Ge 3:8-10]). To read more, well, just keep reading… --...
Greetings... This post is NOT my attempt to control anything anyone posts. That's not my place. I'd rather use this forum to encourage anyone who posts on social media to post only things that are GOOD, TRUE, and/or BEAUTIFUL. If what you're about to post is...
On The Revellious podcast, I've been talking recently about the fear of God. Provided below is a brief distillation of what I believe comprises the fear of God (aka the fear of The Lord). Granted, what I've provided below is really just a snapshot in time of where I...