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Throughout history people have had an intuitive feeling that there is something beyond the very physical and material world in which they live – a spiritual dimension to life in which our deepest feelings and thoughts have a very real existence. Is this spiritual dimension something that is only made real to us on […]
HEALTHY CHURCHES… SAYING OF JESUS (emphasisadded) …follow JESUS CHRIST “I am the way” “I am the door” “you must worship the LORD your GOD and serve only Him” “I and my Father are ONE” “Come follow me” “You follow me” …are CASH economies “don’t store up treasure on earth” “you don’t know the day […]
We live in an extraordinary period of history. We have the largest population our planet has ever seen (7 billion), and its numbers and resource needs continue to grow exponentially. At the same time we have demonstrated an ability to inflict pain and death on huge numbers of people, by means ranging from weapons of […]
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/09/back-to-the-wrong-school.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fsethsmainblog+%28Seth%27s+Blog%29http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/09/back- I’m not sure I entirely agree with this post by author/thinker Seth Godin (I’m certainly not an expert on the history and purposes of American education), but there are some intriguing ideas in it, and it raises some good questions. What is the ultimate goal of our educational system? What should it be? […]
For the time being, my work consists of delving into the Word and the Writings, slowly compiling explanations of the internal sense. Eventually — a matter of months, hopefully — this work will be added to a website which will also contain sermons, papers, passages from books, videos and other material explaining the Word. The […]
In pondering the great and ageless gift of the baby Jesus coming into this world’s life, we are struck once again with that message of the power of innocence. Dark doubts and the roar of brazen evil assail us on every side. Yet, despite their attempts at blinding camouflage, true power is not in such […]