Reformation
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Fat Emperors and Huckster Followers.
Most folks didn’t walk away from God — they walked away from Churchians who were kind in church and then showed their whole ass the minute they stepped outside. Everybody on the outside saw it.The only ones who didn’t were the ones doing it. And here’s the truth: we don’t need another definition of Christianity.We’ve Continue reading
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Broken Vessels
Christ was literate.He stood in the synagogue and read the scroll like a man holding lightning.And yet — He wrote nothing.No book. No manual. No theological empire.Why? Because in the Old Testament, the Word of God came objectively — truth delivered from the outside, untouched by human hands.God spoke.Prophets repeated.Like a puppet.Balaam got judged because Continue reading
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Dead Babies and Me: a Study in Duality
I launched a ministry in South Dakota in the early 2000s between the Yankton Sioux area and Pine Ridge. I didn’t launch a ministry to the Native folks, or to “save the rez”, I just reached out to people, people who are overlooked. I ended up doing a lot of revival meetings in South Dakota Continue reading
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The Integrity of His Intentions
We all know the Lord’s Prayer, right? Jesus begins with, “Our Father…” Not a Father. Not the Father. Our Father — personal, intimate, direct. The whole force of the prayer starts with belonging. That matters, because a lot of us were raised on the idea that Jesus loves everyone in general, which somehow made it Continue reading
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IMPOSSIBLE PEOPLE, HOLY TEACHERS
There’s a hard truth most folks never learn because they spend their whole life trying to avoid it: The people who bother you, trigger you, and make your blood boil are often the very teachers sent to sharpen you. We don’t grow because life is easy. We don’t mature because people are kind. We grow Continue reading
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JAMES 2:5 AND THE DANGEROUS FAVOR OF GOD
“Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom He promised to those who love Him?” — James 2:5 James didn’t whisper this. He thundered it across the early church because the people needed to hear a truth the wealthy hated Continue reading
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AMERICAN SKIN & THE SOLIDARITY OF GOD
How Being a Traditional Skinhead Shaped My Christianity Recognition — The Roots Run Deeper Than the Rumors Let me say it plain, without apology: I came up in the traditional skinhead world — the real one, the working-class one, the anti-racist one, the boots-on-the-ground brotherhood that predates the hijacking of the look by fascists and Continue reading
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Forgiveness Isn’t About the Offense
Forgiveness was never about the weight of what someone did. It’s not about scales of right and wrong. It’s not about who deserves what. Forgiveness is about reciprocity. It is the gate you open so mercy can reach you next. Jesus wasn’t poetic when He tied your forgiveness to how you forgive others. He was Continue reading
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Honey in the Carcass
I became a believer in 1990.The day after I converted, I walked into the streets and never really left them. From 1990 to 2017 I stood on the margins, calling the church to repent.I yelled for reformation and revival in tin shacks with a single bulb swinging overhead.I screamed the same message in mega-churches that Continue reading
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Why is the Gospel good news to the poor?
Because it was addressed to them first. Not spiritually ever-after. Not metaphorically broke. Not “poor in spirit” as a poetic euphemism for everyone. The actual poor. The overlooked. The overworked. The underpaid. The stepped on. The always last. The first exploited. The first blamed. The last resourced. Jesus didn’t open His ministry in Rome, the Continue reading
The People’s Revival 