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PTTPP&“H”TK

by Tyler Dirks

The following is an imagined conversation between David and someone trying to play “peacemaker” and “honor” the king. PTTPP&“H”TK:[1] “Are you gonna accept the king’s invitation to move back to Gibeah and resume your duties as commander and court musician?” David: “No.” PTTPP&“H”TK: “Well, king Saul has done some really good things, and I think […]

PTTPP&“H”THP

by Tyler Dirks

The following is an imagined conversation between Nehemiah and someone trying to play “peacemaker” and “honor” the high priest. PTTPP&“H”THP:[1] “How was your trip?” Nehemiah: “Business as usual.” PTTPP&“H”THP: “What are you gonna do now that you’re back in town?” Nehemiah: “I’m going to deal with this Tobiah problem.” PTTPP&“H”THP: “I don’t think that’s a […]

Good Counsel

by Tyler Dirks

In 2 Chronicles chapter 10 God tells the story of King Rehoboam. People come to Rehoboam and say, “Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you.” Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, and he […]

Groaning & Grieving

by Tyler Dirks

The apostle Paul says, “The Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.” I believe that part of this “too deep for words” means music. Poetry and lyrics are humanity’s best effort […]

Who Is He?

by Tyler Dirks

A couple of Sundays back, Brandon Hawkes came to the weekly gathering at 10101, and he invited us to imaginatively immerse ourselves in the scene where Jesus asks His followers, “Who do people say that I am?” And Jesus’ followers say, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of […]

Christmas In The Darkness

by Tyler Dirks

It’s dark, in the bible, when Christmas is spoken.Always a bolt from the blue for the broken.It’s the valley of shadow, the land of the dead,It’s, “No place in the inn,” so He stoops to the shed.He’s born to the shameful, bends to the weak,becomes the lowly: the God who can’t speak!And yet, what a […]

The Morning Meeting (Friday the 13th)

by Tyler Dirks

In my morning meeting with The Boss He said, “Approve what is excellent, and whatever is excellent, and whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.” And then later in the meeting […]

Notes From Smalls’ Letter to People In Corinth

by Tyler Dirks

God destroys and thwarts and makes foolish our prized popularity and paragons of wisdom and eloquence. God offers stumbling and folly. God chooses what is foolish, weak, low, and despised. What you GOTTA KNOW [bigtime know! …ONLY know …resolve to know nothing other than this know] [1Cor.2.2]!?!?!? How you gotta be with people… in weakness […]