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Bishop, PhD U B'Ham, Theo-Semiotician, DMin, Psychology, MA., BCC Coach, Musician

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When winning matters more than wisdom, every moral boundary becomes negotiable. You can control the narrative for a while, but you cannot control the consequences. History has a long memory.
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When integrity erodes, language itself begins to corrode. Words lose their weight. “Freedom,” “faith,” “justice,” “truth”, each gets emptied of meaning and filled with propaganda. The decay of words always precedes the decay of trust.
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There is a kind of arrogance that believes one’s version of events is the only valid one. It hides under the banner of conviction but carries the scent of pride. Real integrity doesn’t demand to be right; it seeks to be honest.
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The hunger to control the narrative is never about truth; it is about fear. Fear of exposure. Fear of losing power. Fear that the facts might not serve one’s agenda. But control is an illusion. Truth has a way of surfacing, even if it must rise through rubble.
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When leaders feel the need to control every story, truth becomes negotiable. They stop leading and start managing perception. What begins as spin soon becomes self-deception. A society cannot survive long when its storytellers confuse image with integrity.
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No one is delivered from closed-mindedness alone. The Spirit speaks through the other, the brother, the sister, the stranger, drawing us into conversation where our blind spots become visible. When we are willing to listen rather than defend, the Spirit uses community to renew
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The Spirit often disturbs our settled frameworks, leading us into moments where our explanations collapse, and where people or events don’t fit our theological or personal grids. Think of Peter in Acts 10: the Spirit shattered his categories about who could be called “clean.”
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Paul calls believers to “let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5). The Spirit conforms us to that mind by inviting us into the humility of Christ, an inner posture that listens before it speaks, yields before it insists, and trusts the Father’s
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The Spirit brings conviction not as accusation but as unveiling, exposing the inner rigidity that resists new light. Jesus said, “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth” (John 16:13). That guidance often begins by confronting the illusions we cling to.
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When we become aware that our minds are closed, when we notice that we defend rather than discern, react rather than receive, the Spirit is already at work. Awareness itself is grace.
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Mystery requires humility; the acknowledgment that truth is greater than comprehension. The humble mind doesn’t belittle reason; it simply knows reason’s limits. It accepts that understanding grows through reverence as much as analysis. This humility releases the compulsion to
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Those who live well with mystery carry a quiet spaciousness within. They are not crowded by urgency or fear of the unknown. Spaciousness is the capacity to hold multiple meanings, questions, and contradictions without collapsing into confusion or defensiveness. It reflects a soul
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Within the true Body of Christ, prophetic perception functions as a nerve of responsiveness. It detects the movement of the Spirit where institutional or linguistic habits have gone numb. This perception keeps the Body from mistaking rhetoric for revelation or performance for
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Contemporary prophetic agents do not repeat divine words; they attune to divine movement. This posture is not reactive or analytical. It is contemplative and participatory. Under the old covenant, Jeremiah spoke of those who “stood in the counsel of the Lord” (Jeremiah 23:18) as
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When theologically we suggest that prophetic seeing imitates the posture of perceiving movement beneath language, we are describing more than intuition. We are naming a mode of awareness in which the Spirit trains the soul to discern what is living and active beneath the surface
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Spectacle is noisy, it fills space but empties meaning. Integrity is a voice, it may sound quieter, but it carries weight because it comes from depth.
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Integrity is not afraid of being unseen. It knows that the slow work of truth takes root in obscurity before it bears fruit in public.
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Integrity is not a pose. It is a life congruent from the inside out. When word and deed match, people sense something real, something holy, without us having to say a word.
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Spectacle asks, How do I appear? Integrity asks, Who am I when no one is watching? The former builds a platform. The latter builds a life.
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