Monthly Archives: December 2013

A Kairos Foundation Class – Quote

This is a re-statement of Kairos Foundation classes…..

The Spiritual world is designed to operate in Integration with the Material World.

We see from Genesis through Revelation two key ideas. First is that God operates in both the spiritual and the material realm. Second is that when mankind only perceives and operates in the material realm, we immediately build destructive patterns of thought. The Spiritual realm is the home of God, and the source of the material realm. E…arth needs the presence of Heaven to operate in the way it is designed to work. Mankind is a unique creature, made from dirt, but quickened by Heaven. Jesus re-introduced to us, how we can function when we re-claim the Breath of God as our source. The human opponent of His mission was not tax collectors and prostitutes, rather it was anyone who operated with their humanity as source instead of the breath of God.

I feel so overwhelmed with gratitude that I can even understand that. Not that I understand it above anyone else but understand it at all !!!!!

** rather it was anyone who operated with their humanity as source instead of the breath of God. **
God Save us from wrong conversations !

That was me for several decades, trying to be a good guy and pretty successful at that AND successful too but in the end…my humanity still as source and then This, almost exaxctly this:

Empty

Some thoughts on the journey into Vunerability

Vulnerability is such a hard topic to get right. A lot is written about it and just because you read those things doesn’t mean you will get it right for you… I know that from experience.

Leisha and I have been on a 10 month purposeful discussion, journey, adventure into the depths of what that means for us to be vulnerable to each other. I could say a lot by now… but then the first sentence above would probably apply to you…here are some guide post “I think”, not sure just yet…

1) it is only when you are vulnerable do people really see the real you. An un-vulnerable person has all sorts of walls and props put up to hide behind, hold themselves up and be something other than that real person. There is usually a lot of pride tied into that state of being.

2) If you are in love with the un-vulnerable person then you are are not really in love with the real person.

3). If you are not settled enough in your own skin and thus not being vulnerable, you might be difficult to be truly in loved…. (see 1)

4). It just might be that the only real way to be a healthy vulnerable you is in a transforming relationship with Jesus Christ. It just might be all other you’s are a facade.

Free people Free people
Hurting People Hurt People

It is due to some massive breakthroughs on this one point this last weekend I made this and posted it…. Months and months of discussion, practice, some anger, ohhhh lots and lots and lots of prayer and some frustration then finally….breakthrough. Its no small journey.

My Love

There is gold in them thar hills !!!!

It does not mean, as the previous chapter has made clear, that we are imagining Judaism to be merely a ‘faith’, a system of beliefs. To call Judaism ‘a faith’ is actually, in one sense, a piece of Christian cultural imperialism, imagining that because Christianity thinks of itself as a ‘faith’ other peoples do the same. Judaism characteristically thinks of itself as a way, a halakah, a life-path, a way of being-in-the-world.

Wright, N. T. (1992-01-01). New Testament People God V1: Christian Origins And The Question Of God (p. 245). Fortress Press. Kindle Edition.hill

Not only did Pontius Pilot have to deal with “This Jesus” he also had these other problems too ! Just interesting history…

We know of at least seven such incidents in the ten years of Pontius Pilate’s procuratorship (AD 26–36): (i)

Pilate tried to bring Roman standards into Jerusalem, but backed down after a mass protest.29 (ii)

He used money from the Temple treasury to build an aqueduct, and crushed the resistance that this action provoked.30 (iii)

He sent troops to kill some Galileans while they were offering sacrifices in the Temple, presumably because he feared a riot.31 (iv)

He captured and condemned to death the leader of an uprising that had taken place in Jerusalem, involving murder; he then released the man as a gesture of goodwill during the Passover feast.32 (v) (Barrabus)

At the same Passover, he faced a quasi-messianic movement, having some association with resistance movements; he crucified its leader along with two ordinary revolutionaries.33 (vi) (Jesus)

He provoked public opinion by placing Roman votive shields, albeit without images, in the palace at Jerusalem, which according to Philo annoyed Tiberius almost as much as it did the Jews.34 (vii)

Finally, he suppressed with particular brutality a popular (and apparently non-revolutionary) prophetic movement in Samaria. For this he was accused before the Roman legate in Syria, who had him sent back to Rome.35

Wright, N. T. (1992-01-01). New Testament People God V1: Christian Origins And The Question Of God (p. 174). Fortress Press. Kindle Edition.