Podcast by University Baptist Church
Meditation: "It's not that we don't know the truth; we do know it, but we actively push it away or ignore it." -Marc Ian Barash
Meditation: "If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth, Friend, listen; the God I love is inside," -Kabir
Meditation: "No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights." -C. S. Lewis
Meditation: "The human mind in its desire to know, understand, and control, mistakes its opinions and viewpoints for the truth." -Eckhart Tolle
Meditation: "Both were dwellers in deep places (one in the dark bowels of the ships and great fish and wounded pride. The other in the silvery belly of the seas). Both heard God saying "go!" but the whale did as he was told." -Lucy Shaw
Meditation: "Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and aliens in this world, to abstain from sinful passions which attack the soul." -Peter the Apostle
Meditation: "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that," -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Meditation: "O look, look in the mirror, O look in your distress; Life remains a blessing, although you cannot bless." -W. H. Auden
Meditation: "Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Meditation: "In God's holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints." -Frederick Buechner
Meditation: "There never was a more holy age than ours, and never a less." -Annie Dillard
Meditation: "But Mary treasured all these things and pondered them in her heart." -Luke
Meditation: "If you get there before I do, Tell all my friends I'm coming, too."
Sermon: Coming for to Carry Me Home (Pastor John Burns) (December 20, 2020) by University Baptist Church
Sermon: Band of Angels, Coming After Me (Pastor John Burns) (December 13, 2020) by University Baptist Church
Sermon: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Pastor John Burns) (December 6, 2020) by University Baptist Church
Meditation: "The more you believe and trust God, the more limitless your possibilities become for your family, your career, for your life." -Rick Warren
Meditation: "Listen to me House of Israel; I carried you from your conception, I supported you from your birth; and even when you are old, I am with you." -God, according to Isaiah
Meditation: "Patience joins time to eternity." -Wendell Berry
Meditation: "Why spend your money for what is not bread, your wages for what fails to satisfy?" -Isaiah
Meditation: "Fools say in their hearts, 'There is no God.'" -The Psalmist
Meditation: "Attention animated by desire is the whole foundation of religious practices." -Simone Weil
Meditation: "See what great love God has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are." -The Apostle John
Meditation: "You can sing pretty, but there's a different way to sing if you want to call out to gods or cry out to the Spirit or disrupt the weather." -Cary Ann from Shovels and Rope
Meditation: "There is no worldly reward for our spiritual efforts. There isn't even a connection. The payoff for turning to God is more God, not more world." -Hugh Prather
Meditation: "Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved". -Henri Nouwen
Meditation: "It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world, but you are not free to desist from it either." -Rabbi Tarfon
Meditation: "Pay attention. Stay awake and totally alert. See with receptive eyes and discover a world of ceaseless wonders." -Fredric and Mary Brussat
Meditation: "Being listened to is so close to being loved that most people cannot tell the difference." -David Oxbury Augsberg
Meditation: "Faith sees the invisible believes the unbelievable and receives the impossible," -Corrie Ten Boom
Meditation: "There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Meditation: "People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us." -Iris Murdoch
Meditation: "Prayer does not change God, but it changes [the one] who prays." -Soren Kierkegaard
Meditation: "The power of faith is trans-formative. It can be utilized in your own personal life to change your individual condition, and it can be used as a lifeline of spiritual strength to change a nation." -John Lewis
Meditation: "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." -E. E. Cummings YouTube Video Link of this Service: https://youtu.be/D3TebBsSC0M
Meditation: "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." -Maya Angelou Video of this Service Link is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCpESNoxwTw
Meditation: There's a big difference between charity and justice. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table." -Bill Moyers
Meditation: "Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes the ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate." -Albert Schweitzer
Meditation: "One cannot level one's moral lance at every evil in the universe. There are just too many of them. But you can do something, and the difference between doing something and doing nothing is everything." -Daniel Berrigan
Meditation: "The cross is a reversal of all religion. God spills blood to open our hearts to get to us. Before that, we spilled our blood to placate God." -Richard Rohr
Meditation: "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive." -Howard Thurman
Meditation: "We had to stop what we were doing to see what we had done." -Chris Dombrowski
Meditation: "Hope is being able to see there is light despite all of the darkness." -Desmond Tutu
Meditation: "As the day grew brighter, he grew dimmer, and more of his friends gathered around his bed. They took up their oars and rowed with him as far as they could." -Carrie Fisher
Meditation: "We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us." -Marianne Williamson Featuring: Michael Hayes, tenor
Meditation: "Reason, even when supported by senses, has short wings." -Dante
Meditation: "Prayer is communion of the mind with God." -Evagrius
Meditation: "God is our homeland." -Martin Laird
Meditation: "The church must be like a lighthouse in the following ways: 1. Warns of danger 2. Provides a safe harbor 3. Is stronger than the storm 4. Shines the brightest in the fog" -Author Unknown
Meditation: Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit." Having said this, he breathed his last. -Luke 23:46 You may also watch our Sunday Easter Service by clicking the link below: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjkkG2MJog07FwUKf5YQoIg
Meditation: "There is more to life than increasing the speed." -Mahatma Ghandi