May 2012
4 posts
“The great sin of the world is not that the human race has failed to work for God so as to increase his glory but that we have failed to delight in God so as to reflect his glory.” - Piper
#GladMissions
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April 2012
13 posts
Fight The Silence Tour: Update #5 →
Originally posted above at XXXChurch.com
Just over six weeks have passed since the time my wife Brandi and I flew out to Nashville on behalf of XXXChurch to begin For Today’s Fight The Silence Tour. Part of me feels like a lifetime has passed since then, and part of me feels like we never left. It is always strange coming home from the road, because the road changes daily, and home seems...
Tattoo
So said the sinner to the saint:
“do you ever wish that the dealer
shuffled your cards a different way?”
Inside of an inebriated city,
the gutters sang from under our feet
in the form of steam that made it’s way up through the manholes,
split into lines drawn in the sand by steel bars beneath the beat.
You are built of water,
just the same as concrete,
and most of the...
“We all wrote our songs on all of our hearts before we poured them into yours,...”
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Fight The Silence Tour: Update #3 →
This is the third update on behalf of XXXChurch.com in regard to me and Brandi’s time on For Today’s #FightTheSilence tour.
“I pushed a hipster down the stairs and asked him, “Who’s tumbling...”
SUB. CONTINUATION: LEVI THE POET →
This month, Substream Magazine ran an article on Levi The Poet. Here is the interview, in full, behind the story.
"Success" Is A Hollow Goal →
This is absolutely fantastic and relevant to anyone regardless of vocation.
March 2012
15 posts
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Creatures Of The Night!
I have been sitting here staring at this blank screen for over an hour trying to try (see what I did there?) to think about what to write, but I’m drawing a complete blank (in the thinking and the writing departments).
It’s like an Invisible Mind-Numb-er Creature drilled a hole in my skull and poured Novocain all over my brain.
My teeth taste like Swedish Fish and my stomach is full...
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TREASURE
“The world needs nothing more than to see the worth of Christ in the work and words of his God-besotted people. This will come to pass when the church awakens to the truth that the saving love of God is the gift of himself, and that God himself is the gospel.”
- John Piper “God Is The Gospel”
Fight The Silence Tour: Update #2 →
This is the second update of mine in regard to XXXChurch’s presence on For Today’s Fight The Silence Tour. If you did not catch the first one, click here.
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Fight The Silence Tour: Update #1 →
This is the first of what I hope will be weekly tour updates from my end - with Brandi - about how we are doing, how the tour is doing, and how the people who come to the tour are doing. It has been a joy to have been invited into the story that Jesus is writing via XXXChurch, and to be a conduit for inviting others into His story, as well.
Hope to see you out on this tour. Please pray for my...
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HM Magazine interviews Levi The Poet for the new... →
For anyone interested in anything LTP.
Shame →
Pretty In Pornography →
Craig Gross, founder of XXXChurch.com, wrote up this really nice post about my video for Pretty In Pornography, that I would appreciate your thoughts, comments, and “shares” on.
Love you guys, and also, thank you for your love.
Kaleidoscope: You Make My Heart Break, And Hope
On Monday, I had the privilege of posting a video for a poem that I wrote and released last November through Come&Live! A piece based around the life of a woman who has been subjected to oppressive and violent assault at the hands of her father, neglect from her mother, and faith in little else than her daughter, “Kaleidoscope” is the story of a victim turned prostitute who...
I’ve gotten a ton of feedback on the Kaleidoscope video in the last couple of days - stories of heartbreaking abuse, and stories of the redemptive hope of Jesus despite them - just wanted to thank you all for sharing it with your friends. http://youtu.be/D5BRb9uzhRE Please continue to pass the link around to anyone and everyone (after all, I hear rumors of another on the way…)
February 2012
12 posts
Whether you know who Brian Gaiser is or not you’re definitely going to want to read this: albuquerque.marshill.com/2012/02/28/from-wreckage-to-reconciliation/ #JesusIsKingHealerLoverFriend
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One of the most annoying things about being an adult is that you have to schedule times to hang out with your friends on a calendar, instead of showing up on their doorstep and staying for three days.
There is no truer characteristic of believers than that they should promote the glory of the Lord, with which their whole happiness is connected. - Calvin
“To some you’re like a prison
when they’ve yet to taste freedom,...”
– Josh Dies
“My God and Father, while I stray // Far from my home in life’s rough way // Oh...”
– Charlotte Elliott
Poet Porn →
3/9 Nashville, TN @ Rocketown 3/10 Douglasville, GA @ The 7 Venue 3/11 Jacksonville, FL @ Murray Hill Theatre 3/12 Pensacola, FL @ American Legion Hall 3/14 Mission, TX @ Never Say Never Festival 3/17 Dallas, TX @ South By So What Festival 3/20 Tucson, AZ @ The Rock 3/21 Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues 3/23 Simi Valley, CA @ 118 West ...
Silence and Solitude →
And, in this case, a yearning for it, as I have somehow become, more naturally: a public loudmouth.
Sex-Trafficking At The Super Bowl →
January 2012
5 posts
Top Ten Albums of Twenty Eleven
I’ve been skirting around writing this list since the beginning of the year because I don’t really think I listened to a lot of music in 2011, and didn’t even know if I’d have ten bands to choose from when I sat down to think about it, so I never sat down to think about it. Now I’m sitting down to think about it, and I was wrong, of course.
This year was crazy. I...
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How Jesus Used Stieg Larsson To Overwhelm Me With...
“‘I need to write this book’, he said. ‘It’s really important to me. I saw a rape and I didn’t do anything. I felt terrible about what I had seen.’ - The incident happened in 1969 at a camping site in northern Sweden. Three of his friends assaulted a 15-year-old girl as Larsson watched.”
- Stieg Larsson - http://abcn.ws/w1rGLS
It’s fair to say that I’m relatively obsessed with Stieg Larsson’s...
First Timers: The First Time I Learned About Sex →
Yet another example of what will either be appreciated vulnerability or self-destructive storytelling.
God's Character in Relation to Steamy Sexy Sex →
Or, at least, some observations that I’ve turned into conclusions.
December 2011
4 posts
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