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The answer to how the bodily resurrection of the dead is possible is The Resurrection Giver.-1. Notice God's patterns of botanical life out of death, and types of terrestrial bodies and celestial glories. -v.35-41--2. Understand the radical differences between the risen body and its earthly counterpart. -v.42-44a--3. Consider how Christ will bridge the earthly and the heavenly. -v.44b-49--Applying- Why do people hesitate at the idea of the dead being raised--1. Who will transform our bodies to be like Jesus' body- Phil 3-20-21-2. What did Jesus say about Himself- What verb tense- John 11-25-3. How does the Bible describe our inheritance- 1 Peter 1-4

Holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation. While we have recognized that the ego's plan for salvation is the opposite of God's, we have not yet emphasized that it is an active attack on His plan, and a deliberate attempt to destroy it. In the attack, God is assigned the attributes which are actually associated with the ego, while the ego appears to take on the attributes of God. The ego's fundamental wish is to replace God. In fact, the ego is the physical embodiment of that wish. For it is that wish that seems to surround the mind with a body, keeping it separate and alone, and unable to reach other minds except through the body that was made to imprison it. The limit on communication cannot be the best means to expand communication. Yet the ego would have you believe that it is. Although the attempt to keep the limitations that a body would impose is obvious here, it is perhaps not so apparent why holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation. But let us consider the kinds of things you are apt to hold grievances for. Are they not always associated with something a body does? A person says something you do not like. He does something that displeases you. He "betrays" his hostile thoughts in his behavior. You are not dealing here with what the person is. On the contrary, you are exclusively concerned with what he does in a body. You are doing more than failing to help in freeing him from the body's limitations. You are actively trying to hold him to it by confusing it with him, and judging them as one. Herein is God attacked, for if His Son is only a body, so must He be as well. A creator wholly unlike his creation is inconceivable. If God is a body, what must His plan for salvation be? What could it be but death? In trying to present Himself as the Author of life and not of death, He is a liar and a deceiver, full of false promises and offering illusions in place of truth. The body's apparent reality makes this view of God quite convincing. In fact, if the body were real, it would be difficult indeed to escape this conclusion. And every grievance that you hold insists that the body is real. It overlooks entirely what your brother is. It reinforces your belief that he is a body, and condemns him for it. And it asserts that his salvation must be death, projecting this attack onto God, and holding Him responsible for it. To this carefully prepared arena, where angry animals seek for prey and mercy cannot enter, the ego comes to save you. God made you a body. Very well. Let us accept this and be glad. As a body, do not let yourself be deprived of what the body offers. Take the little you can get. God gave you nothing. The body is your only savior. It is the death of God and your salvation. This is the universal belief of the world you see. Some hate the body, and try to hurt and humiliate it. Others love the body, and try to glorify and exalt it. But while the body stands at the center of your concept of yourself, you are attacking God's plan for salvation, and holding your grievances against Him and His creation, that you may not hear the Voice of truth and welcome It as Friend. Your chosen savior takes His place instead. It is your friend; He is your enemy. We will try today to stop these senseless attacks on salvation. We will try to welcome it instead. Your upside-down perception has been ruinous to your peace of mind. You have seen yourself in a body and the truth outside you, locked away from your awareness by the body's limitations. Now we are going to try to see this differently. The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God. It is the body that is outside us, and is not our concern. To be without a body is to be in our natural state. To recognize the light of truth in us is to recognize ourselves as we are. To see our Self as separate from the body is to end the attack on God's plan for salvation, and to accept it instead. And wherever His plan is accepted, it is accomplished already. Our goal in the longer practice periods today is to become aware that God's plan for salvation has already been accomplished in us. To achieve this goal, we must replace attack with acceptance. As long as we attack it, we cannot understand what God's plan for us is. We are therefore attacking what we do not recognize. Now we are going to try to lay judgment aside, and ask what God's plan for us is: What is salvation, Father? I do not know. Tell me, that I may understand. Then we will wait in quiet for His answer. We have attacked God's plan for salvation without waiting to hear what it is. We have shouted our grievances so loudly that we have not listened to His Voice. We have used our grievances to close our eyes and stop our ears. Now we would see and hear and learn. "What is salvation, Father?" Ask and you will be answered. Seek and you will find. We are no longer asking the ego what salvation is and where to find it. We are asking it of truth. Be certain, then, that the answer will be true because of Whom you ask. Whenever you feel your confidence wane and your hope of success flicker and go out, repeat your question and your request, remembering that you are asking of the infinite Creator of infinity, Who created you like Himself: What is salvation, Father? I do not know. Tell me, that I may understand. He will answer. Be determined to hear. One or perhaps two shorter practice periods an hour will be enough for today, since they will be somewhat longer than usual. These exercises should begin with this: Holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation. Let me accept it instead. What is salvation, Father? Then wait a minute or so in silence, preferably with your eyes closed, and listen for His answer.- Jesus Christ in A Course in Miracles, Lesson 72

Holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation. While we have recognized that the ego's plan for salvation is the opposite of God's, we have not yet emphasized that it is an active attack on His plan, and a deliberate attempt to destroy it. In the attack, God is assigned the attributes which are actually associated with the ego, while the ego appears to take on the attributes of God. The ego's fundamental wish is to replace God. In fact, the ego is the physical embodiment of that wish. For it is that wish that seems to surround the mind with a body, keeping it separate and alone, and unable to reach other minds except through the body that was made to imprison it. The limit on communication cannot be the best means to expand communication. Yet the ego would have you believe that it is. Although the attempt to keep the limitations that a body would impose is obvious here, it is perhaps not so apparent why holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation. But let us consider the kinds of things you are apt to hold grievances for. Are they not always associated with something a body does? A person says something you do not like. He does something that displeases you. He "betrays" his hostile thoughts in his behavior. You are not dealing here with what the person is. On the contrary, you are exclusively concerned with what he does in a body. You are doing more than failing to help in freeing him from the body's limitations. You are actively trying to hold him to it by confusing it with him, and judging them as one. Herein is God attacked, for if His Son is only a body, so must He be as well. A creator wholly unlike his creation is inconceivable. If God is a body, what must His plan for salvation be? What could it be but death? In trying to present Himself as the Author of life and not of death, He is a liar and a deceiver, full of false promises and offering illusions in place of truth. The body's apparent reality makes this view of God quite convincing. In fact, if the body were real, it would be difficult indeed to escape this conclusion. And every grievance that you hold insists that the body is real. It overlooks entirely what your brother is. It reinforces your belief that he is a body, and condemns him for it. And it asserts that his salvation must be death, projecting this attack onto God, and holding Him responsible for it. To this carefully prepared arena, where angry animals seek for prey and mercy cannot enter, the ego comes to save you. God made you a body. Very well. Let us accept this and be glad. As a body, do not let yourself be deprived of what the body offers. Take the little you can get. God gave you nothing. The body is your only savior. It is the death of God and your salvation. This is the universal belief of the world you see. Some hate the body, and try to hurt and humiliate it. Others love the body, and try to glorify and exalt it. But while the body stands at the center of your concept of yourself, you are attacking God's plan for salvation, and holding your grievances against Him and His creation, that you may not hear the Voice of truth and welcome It as Friend. Your chosen savior takes His place instead. It is your friend; He is your enemy. We will try today to stop these senseless attacks on salvation. We will try to welcome it instead. Your upside-down perception has been ruinous to your peace of mind. You have seen yourself in a body and the truth outside you, locked away from your awareness by the body's limitations. Now we are going to try to see this differently. The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God. It is the body that is outside us, and is not our concern. To be without a body is to be in our natural state. To recognize the light of truth in us is to recognize ourselves as we are. To see our Self as separate from the body is to end the attack on God's plan for salvation, and to accept it instead. And wherever His plan is accepted, it is accomplished already. Our goal in the longer practice periods today is to become aware that God's plan for salvation has already been accomplished in us. To achieve this goal, we must replace attack with acceptance. As long as we attack it, we cannot understand what God's plan for us is. We are therefore attacking what we do not recognize. Now we are going to try to lay judgment aside, and ask what God's plan for us is: What is salvation, Father? I do not know. Tell me, that I may understand. Then we will wait in quiet for His answer. We have attacked God's plan for salvation without waiting to hear what it is. We have shouted our grievances so loudly that we have not listened to His Voice. We have used our grievances to close our eyes and stop our ears. Now we would see and hear and learn. "What is salvation, Father?" Ask and you will be answered. Seek and you will find. We are no longer asking the ego what salvation is and where to find it. We are asking it of truth. Be certain, then, that the answer will be true because of Whom you ask. Whenever you feel your confidence wane and your hope of success flicker and go out, repeat your question and your request, remembering that you are asking of the infinite Creator of infinity, Who created you like Himself: What is salvation, Father? I do not know. Tell me, that I may understand. He will answer. Be determined to hear. One or perhaps two shorter practice periods an hour will be enough for today, since they will be somewhat longer than usual. These exercises should begin with this: Holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation. Let me accept it instead. What is salvation, Father? Then wait a minute or so in silence, preferably with your eyes closed, and listen for His answer.- Jesus Christ in A Course in Miracles, Lesson 72

A Course in Miracles Lesson 72 can be found on page 124, 125 and 126 in your Workbook for Students. The idea for the day is this: "Holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation." Our goal in the longer practice periods today is to become aware that God's plan for salvation has already been accomplished in us... Now we are going to try lay judgment aside and ask what God's plan for us is: "What is salvation, Father? I do not know. Tell me, that I may understand." Then we will wait in quiet for His answer... Whenever you feel your confidence wane and your hope of success flicker and go out, repeat your question and your request, remembering that you are asking of the infinite Creator of infinity, Who created you like Himself: "What is salvation, Father? I do not know. Tell me, that I may understand." One or two shorter practice periods an hour will be enough for today... these exercises should begin with this: "Holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation. Let me accept it instead. What is salvation, Father?" Want these lessons delivered daily to your inbox? Become a Patron to gain access: https://laurenkinghorn.com/patreon Video Lesson for Lesson 71 here: https://youtu.be/vxuZam4D_Sk Please join us on Facebook at Believe in Miracles 365: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BelieveinMiracles365/ If you'd like to join me for this journey and you don't have a copy of the book yet, you can get it now on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2JhweDQ * *This is an affiliate link. Please see disclaimer below. A Course in Miracles brought to you by Lauren Kinghorn, Visionary Digital Entrepreneur. Conveying my message to the world on RedBubble merch. https://www.redbubble.com/people/LaurenKinghorn/shop Find my Online Courses here: https://laurenkinghorn.com/courses Join my mailing list: http://join.inspiringmompreneurs.com/welcome Find my 3 niche websites here: https://laurenkinghorn.com https://inspiringmompreneurs.com https://happyhumanpacifier.com Are you a Fempreneur or Mompreneur? I would luuurve to have YOU join my tribe on LinkedIn at Fempreneurs Unite https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8831606/ or Mompreneurs Unite https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8731152/ Follow me here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenkinghorn/ https://www.instagram.com/laurenjeankinghorn https://www.pinterest.com/inspiringmompre/ https://twitter.com/inspiringmompre/ Affiliate Disclaimer: * If you purchase anything through a link in this description, please assume I have an affiliate relationship with the company providing the product or service that you purchase, and that I'll be compensated in some small way at no extra cost to you.

Holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation. While we have recognized that the ego's plan for salvation is the opposite of God's, we have not yet emphasized that it is an active attack on His plan, and a deliberate attempt to destroy it. In the attack, God is assigned the attributes which are actually associated with the ego, while the ego appears to take on the attributes of God. The ego's fundamental wish is to replace God. In fact, the ego is the physical embodiment of that wish. For it is that wish that seems to surround the mind with a body, keeping it separate and alone, and unable to reach other minds except through the body that was made to imprison it. The limit on communication cannot be the best means to expand communication. Yet the ego would have you believe that it is. Although the attempt to keep the limitations that a body would impose is obvious here, it is perhaps not so apparent why holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation. But let us consider the kinds of things you are apt to hold grievances for. Are they not always associated with something a body does? A person says something you do not like. He does something that displeases you. He "betrays" his hostile thoughts in his behavior. You are not dealing here with what the person is. On the contrary, you are exclusively concerned with what he does in a body. You are doing more than failing to help in freeing him from the body's limitations. You are actively trying to hold him to it by confusing it with him, and judging them as one. Herein is God attacked, for if His Son is only a body, so must He be as well. A creator wholly unlike his creation is inconceivable. If God is a body, what must His plan for salvation be? What could it be but death? In trying to present Himself as the Author of life and not of death, He is a liar and a deceiver, full of false promises and offering illusions in place of truth. The body's apparent reality makes this view of God quite convincing. In fact, if the body were real, it would be difficult indeed to escape this conclusion. And every grievance that you hold insists that the body is real. It overlooks entirely what your brother is. It reinforces your belief that he is a body, and condemns him for it. And it asserts that his salvation must be death, projecting this attack onto God, and holding Him responsible for it. To this carefully prepared arena, where angry animals seek for prey and mercy cannot enter, the ego comes to save you. God made you a body. Very well. Let us accept this and be glad. As a body, do not let yourself be deprived of what the body offers. Take the little you can get. God gave you nothing. The body is your only savior. It is the death of God and your salvation. This is the universal belief of the world you see. Some hate the body, and try to hurt and humiliate it. Others love the body, and try to glorify and exalt it. But while the body stands at the center of your concept of yourself, you are attacking God's plan for salvation, and holding your grievances against Him and His creation, that you may not hear the Voice of truth and welcome It as Friend. Your chosen savior takes His place instead. It is your friend; He is your enemy. We will try today to stop these senseless attacks on salvation. We will try to welcome it instead. Your upside-down perception has been ruinous to your peace of mind. You have seen yourself in a body and the truth outside you, locked away from your awareness by the body's limitations. Now we are going to try to see this differently. The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God. It is the body that is outside us, and is not our concern. To be without a body is to be in our natural state. To recognize the light of truth in us is to recognize ourselves as we are. To see our Self as separate from the body is to end the attack on God's plan for salvation, and to accept it instead. And wherever His plan is accepted, it is accomplished already. Our goal in the longer practice periods today is to become aware that God's plan for salvation has already been accomplished in us. To achieve this goal, we must replace attack with acceptance. As long as we attack it, we cannot understand what God's plan for us is. We are therefore attacking what we do not recognize. Now we are going to try to lay judgment aside, and ask what God's plan for us is: What is salvation, Father? I do not know. Tell me, that I may understand. Then we will wait in quiet for His answer. We have attacked God's plan for salvation without waiting to hear what it is. We have shouted our grievances so loudly that we have not listened to His Voice. We have used our grievances to close our eyes and stop our ears. Now we would see and hear and learn. "What is salvation, Father?" Ask and you will be answered. Seek and you will find. We are no longer asking the ego what salvation is and where to find it. We are asking it of truth. Be certain, then, that the answer will be true because of Whom you ask. Whenever you feel your confidence wane and your hope of success flicker and go out, repeat your question and your request, remembering that you are asking of the infinite Creator of infinity, Who created you like Himself: What is salvation, Father? I do not know. Tell me, that I may understand. He will answer. Be determined to hear. One or perhaps two shorter practice periods an hour will be enough for today, since they will be somewhat longer than usual. These exercises should begin with this: Holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation. Let me accept it instead. What is salvation, Father? Then wait a minute or so in silence, preferably with your eyes closed, and listen for His answer.- Jesus Christ in A Course in Miracles, Lesson 72

This week Rob dives into the first chapter of Genesis. What does God want to say to a people who come out of a world that says they have no value? What is the first thing God wants to communicate about Himself? What is does God want to communicate about His creation? What does this mean to you? Sermon Notes: Egyptian creation myths 400 Years of Slavery Repeated themes Genesis 1:1-25 Genesis 1:26-2:3 Breaking the Pattern Implication: Because you are tov meod (very good), rest.

Being Hopeful In A World that Isn’t1. Jesus is coming again, 2 Peter 3:1-13holinessgodlinesswaitinghastening2. Jesus is doing something about the world we live in, 2 Corinthians 5:17-6:133. Jesus came in the first place, Exodus 23:20-33God gives them…Covenant- they don’t want to keepLeader- they won’t followLaw- they can’t keepKings- they can’t trustProphets- they don’t likeMinor Prophets- they don’t listen to-Malachi 1:10-11Mental worship…How often do you think about the Second Coming and when you do think about it how does it affect the way you live right now?How do you respond when people scoff at Christianity?When do you feel as if God is using you to reconcile the world to Himself?What could you do this week to widen your heart?Where do you find the motivation to do what God says when you don’t have the desire?

1 John 1:1-4 Who is Jesus? How did Jesus reveal Himself? What difference does knowing the real Jesus make?

God Works in Mysterious Ways. One of the definitions of the word “Mystery” is “a person or thing whose identity or nature is puzzling or unknown.” Many people feel this is a good description for God. We even say that “God works in mysterious ways” especially when tragedy strikes. But what does God say about Himself? What if God never said that?

Sermon Recording Sermon OutlineSpeaker: Rev. Scott StrickmanSermon Series: The Preeminence of ChristColossians 1:15-23 (ESV) 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. 19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. 21 And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, 22 he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, 23 if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.Sermon OutlineThe preeminence (v18) of Jesus in creation (v15) presents a comprehensive picture where we can locate ourselves, helping us make sense of life and everything in it. 1. Our Starting Point v16 “by him all things were created”v17 “he is before all things” 2. Our Goal v16 “all things were created through him and for him” 3. Our Present Hope v17 “in him all things hold together”v23 “the hope of the gospel… which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven” Questions for ReflectionWhat are some implications of the claim that God has created all things (the heavens, the earth; everything visible and invisible)?How does the way Jesus is portrayed in Colossians 1 (being before all things, with all things created through him and for him) contribute to the claim that in all things Jesus is preeminent?Is a process of reasoning sufficient to draw a conclusion on whether or not God exists, or what God is like? Why or why not?Can God be known apart from His choosing to reveal Himself? What are things we can know about God? What are things we can’t know?Jesus is the “image of the invisible God” (Colossians 1:15). How do we come to know God through Christ?Why, in light of this passage, do you think people struggle with issues of meaning and purpose in life? How can Jesus as our starting point and end goal contribute to a growing sense of coherence in our lives?What areas of your life need to be realigned with the reality of Jesus’ preeminence?As you continue to learn, how do you cope with having to exist and make choices when you don’t know all things? What can help you live well? How does trusting Jesus play a key role?Prayer of ConfessionOur God, creator, redeemer and sustainer: we inhabit the world you have made, but we have misunderstood some very basic things. We have not listened to you, we have not learned from you, and yet we have drawn all sorts of conclusions that dishonor you. We are guilty of arrogance, insisting we are right on matters we don’t understand. We are guilty of apathy, dismissing what doesn’t fit with our personal convictions. We are guilty of actions that flow from our confusion. We acknowledge Jesus as preeminent, and give thanks for the good news that we have been forgiven through his death on our behalf. Teach us and guide us in life. Amen.

In coming the earth, what did the Son of God give up? How did He humble Himself? What was the among the costs of our salvation?

We enjoy the blessed life by seeing God as He is and therefore cultivating a simple, pure devotion to Him.   "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Matthew 5:8   We enjoy the blessed life by seeing God as He is and therefore cultivating a simple, pure devotion to Him.   Identifying the things that keep you from devoting your heart fulling to Him. Placing those things under His Lordship to pursue the high-life found only in Him. Who or what competes for your heart's allegiance to the God who made you for Himself? What good things (relationships, goals), evil things (porn, addictions), or neutral things (money, stuff) are you treating as ultimate, and therefore devoting yourself to them? How will you place those things under God's Lordship to honor Him and enjoy the life only He can give you as you devote yourself fully to Him? What do you need to turn from in order to give Him first place in your heart? How is God calling you to devote your heart more fully to Him today? 

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Holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation. While we have recognized that the ego's plan for salvation is the opposite of God's, we have not yet emphasized that it is an active attack on His plan, and a deliberate attempt to destroy it. In the attack, God is assigned the attributes which are actually associated with the ego, while the ego appears to take on the attributes of God. The ego's fundamental wish is to replace God. In fact, the ego is the physical embodiment of that wish. For it is that wish that seems to surround the mind with a body, keeping it separate and alone, and unable to reach other minds except through the body that was made to imprison it. The limit on communication cannot be the best means to expand communication. Yet the ego would have you believe that it is. Although the attempt to keep the limitations that a body would impose is obvious here, it is perhaps not so apparent why holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation. But let us consider the kinds of things you are apt to hold grievances for. Are they not always associated with something a body does? A person says something you do not like. He does something that displeases you. He "betrays" his hostile thoughts in his behavior. You are not dealing here with what the person is. On the contrary, you are exclusively concerned with what he does in a body. You are doing more than failing to help in freeing him from the body's limitations. You are actively trying to hold him to it by confusing it with him, and judging them as one. Herein is God attacked, for if His Son is only a body, so must He be as well. A creator wholly unlike his creation is inconceivable. If God is a body, what must His plan for salvation be? What could it be but death? In trying to present Himself as the Author of life and not of death, He is a liar and a deceiver, full of false promises and offering illusions in place of truth. The body's apparent reality makes this view of God quite convincing. In fact, if the body were real, it would be difficult indeed to escape this conclusion. And every grievance that you hold insists that the body is real. It overlooks entirely what your brother is. It reinforces your belief that he is a body, and condemns him for it. And it asserts that his salvation must be death, projecting this attack onto God, and holding Him responsible for it. To this carefully prepared arena, where angry animals seek for prey and mercy cannot enter, the ego comes to save you. God made you a body. Very well. Let us accept this and be glad. As a body, do not let yourself be deprived of what the body offers. Take the little you can get. God gave you nothing. The body is your only savior. It is the death of God and your salvation. This is the universal belief of the world you see. Some hate the body, and try to hurt and humiliate it. Others love the body, and try to glorify and exalt it. But while the body stands at the center of your concept of yourself, you are attacking God's plan for salvation, and holding your grievances against Him and His creation, that you may not hear the Voice of truth and welcome It as Friend. Your chosen savior takes His place instead. It is your friend; He is your enemy. We will try today to stop these senseless attacks on salvation. We will try to welcome it instead. Your upside-down perception has been ruinous to your peace of mind. You have seen yourself in a body and the truth outside you, locked away from your awareness by the body's limitations. Now we are going to try to see this differently. The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God. It is the body that is outside us, and is not our concern. To be without a body is to be in our natural state. To recognize the light of truth in us is to recognize ourselves as we are. To see our Self as separate from the body is to end the attack on God's plan for salvation, and to accept it instead. And wherever His plan is accepted, it is accomplished already. Our goal in the longer practice periods today is to become aware that God's plan for salvation has already been accomplished in us. To achieve this goal, we must replace attack with acceptance. As long as we attack it, we cannot understand what God's plan for us is. We are therefore attacking what we do not recognize. Now we are going to try to lay judgment aside, and ask what God's plan for us is: What is salvation, Father? I do not know. Tell me, that I may understand. Then we will wait in quiet for His answer. We have attacked God's plan for salvation without waiting to hear what it is. We have shouted our grievances so loudly that we have not listened to His Voice. We have used our grievances to close our eyes and stop our ears. Now we would see and hear and learn. "What is salvation, Father?" Ask and you will be answered. Seek and you will find. We are no longer asking the ego what salvation is and where to find it. We are asking it of truth. Be certain, then, that the answer will be true because of Whom you ask. Whenever you feel your confidence wane and your hope of success flicker and go out, repeat your question and your request, remembering that you are asking of the infinite Creator of infinity, Who created you like Himself: What is salvation, Father? I do not know. Tell me, that I may understand. He will answer. Be determined to hear. One or perhaps two shorter practice periods an hour will be enough for today, since they will be somewhat longer than usual. These exercises should begin with this: Holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation. Let me accept it instead. What is salvation, Father? Then wait a minute or so in silence, preferably with your eyes closed, and listen for His answer.- Jesus Christ in A Course in Miracles, Lesson 72

In Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, author Richard Rohr builds on psychologist Carl Jung’s description of a process by which we let go of who we think we are supposed to be, and start to more accurately express our “true” selves. Rohr, a Franciscan Priest, adds a spiritual perspective to Jung’s framework of first half and second half life experiences, concluding that “Your True Self is who you objectively are from the beginning, in the mind and heart of God.” This is, of course, hardly a view unique to the Christian faith. As Rohr points out, Zen Buddhists have since long ago referred to the true self as “the face you had before you were born.” Rohr’s “second half” spiritual discovery of a true self requires what he calls a “downward process” brought on by a divinely placed “stumbling stone,” resulting in the paradoxically necessary process of self-surrender. Rohr is not alone in his application of scripture, church history, and experience to reach the conclusion that we often stand in our own way when it comes to experiencing all that God has in store for us. “Sooner or later a servant of God discovers that he himself is the greatest frustration of his work.” So wrote Watchman Nee (1903-1972), an early 20th century church leader and teacher who died in a Chinese prison after 20 years of incarceration for his faith. Similar to Rohr’s “downward process,” Nee explains in The Breaking of the Outer Man and the Release of the Spirit that our lives inevitably require the breaking of an outer veneer to release the “true” spirit inside each of us. Author John Eldredge, in his popular book Wild At Heart, similarly writes that “In order to take a man into his wound, so that he can heal it and begin the release of the true self, God will thwart the false self. He will take away all that you’ve leaned upon to bring you life.” As Eldredge explains, the process of taking off a mask worn for a lifetime can sometimes be a painful one. So, what’s the point - is this just about building a better “you”? It can end there - but it doesn’t have to. There’s so much more to it than that. Unlike typical “self-help” practices, which make no apologies for perfecting and improving as a means to itself, what Christian authors like Nee, Rohr, and Eldridge all describe in the “breaking” process is not merely a journey of self-improvement for the purpose of “bettering ourselves.” While certainly greater peace and contentment may come from a better understanding of our true nature, Nee explains that by virtue of this journey God “wants to prepare a way to bring His blessing to the world through those who belong to Him.” In other words, it turns out that in finding ourselves (and hence our unique purpose) we will eventually realize, as Rick Warren writes in the first line of The Purpose Driven Life, that “It’s not about you.” Then, who is it about? Answering that question may first require you to reimagine your concept, or description, of God. Is it possible that in the process of helping you to discover your own “true self,” God will also be revealing something to you something about who He is? In addition to becoming a greater blessing to the world, as Nee describes, is it possible that God also wants you to be a blessing to Him? What if it’s just as important to consider not only what God wants for you, but why he wants that, for you? We can often think of prayer (and even faith practices more broadly) as ways by which we discover God’s will for our lives, get answers, obtain guidance, make divine requests, intercede for others, and try to learn more about our purpose. All good things! But what if God might also have something to relate to each of us individually - about himself? What if, by breaking our outer man, we might also learn more not just about our own heart, but also about God’s heart for each of us? If we truly believe that God is both immanent and transcendent (totally unfathomable and yet intensely knowable), then why wouldn’t He be constantly working to reveal Himself to you? My friend Will Blackman joined me in this episode for a deep discussion about not just the process of breaking, but also more importantly God’s desire to use that process to reveal more about Himself. My hope is that this will be the first of several more episodes where we unpack in more detail what it looks like to “get out of our own way” in how we relate to God, and continually seek His purpose for our lives. Will and I discussed: Why God reminds the Israelites (and us) in Deuteronomy about the importance of “remembering” what He has done The difference between having knowledge about God, and learning more from Him about Himself What does it mean that Jesus’ sheep hear his voice, and he knows them? (John 10:27) The difference between our view of sin, and God’s view of sin How the seeking of God’s heart as a spiritual practice now prepares us for our own “trials” ahead Common grace versus specific grace (the importance of both) What does it look like to hear from God? (two questions to consider asking God in prayer) I hope you enjoy our conversation about the purpose in the process of breaking - stay tuned for more on this topic! Check out shilohcoleman.com for links to the books mentioned in the podcast!   

Today we begin our 5 part series on the women Doctors of the Church by first exploring the life of St. Catherine of Siena. St. Catherine was a preacher, influencer, writer, miracle worker, and mystic. In this episode, we chat about Catherine’s example of intimacy with God, her fiery heart and voice of conviction, how her hidden life fueled her passion for the Church and restoration, and how we can follow her example in specific ways. One Thing We Love This Week: Sr. Miriam's One Thing - The Divine Mercy Shrine in Poland Michelle's One Thing - Brother Isaiah’s new song - https://aleteia.org/2018/10/17/brother-isaiahs-love-song-for-the-bride-is-balm-for-a-wounded-church/ and check out his album Poco a Poco Michelle’s other one thing - Rosary bracelet - https://chewslife.com/new-siena-rosary-bracelet-dalmatian-jasper/ Heather's One Thing - The St. Francis of Assisi Movie “A Sign of Contradiction” by Fr. Dave Pivonka and 4pm Media https://www.signofcontradiction.com/ Discussion Questions: What does restored femininity look like in your life? Where can you see God in your childhood? Where do you need to ask Him to reveal Himself? What do you love? What burns your heart? Where is Christ calling you to true love that radiates from within? Journal Questions: How is God inviting you to bring your feminine genius to your world? What suffering in your life is God asking you to unite with His, that He wants to restore and heal? How has the enemy come into my life to seek, kill, and destroy things that God wants to use to bring life and glory to the world? What areas in your hidden life within, need to experience mercy and transformation so that you can be a witness of restoration to the Church? Quote to Ponder: “I promise you, that, by this means, her beauty will be restored to her, not by the knife nor by cruelty, but peacefully, by humble and continued prayer, by the sweat and the tears shed by the fiery desire of My servants” - Jesus to St. Catherine of Siena *Scripture for the week - Ezekiel 37:1-7 * The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.”Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’” So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone.

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Prayer, holiness and the God of Peace1 Thessalonians 5:23-28This is the last sermon in this series. I have mixed feelings. I have enjoyed preaching through this book and wish I wasn't leaving it.Paul draws his final encouragements and exhortations to a close in two magnificent verses (23-24) and then ends the letter where he started: “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.” Grace has been one important theme in this letter - a letter that he asks be read to all the brothers - and it is where Paul chooses to draw his readers' attention at the end of this letter. He leaves us amazed at God.How so? Well, last week's sermon was heavily invested on my side of things… rejoice - at all times; pray - unceasingly; be grateful - in everything. Why? Because this is God's will for you. Don't extinguish the Spirit, don't despise the prophesies, but test everything and keep what is good. And then the capstone: keep yourself from every form of evil. No tall order… and it seems to all be on me.Perhaps I left you thinking that… holiness is something I need to accomplish. Not entirely, because now Paul offers a benediction in which he wishes two things from God: that He might make us holy and that we might be kept blameless at Christ's return. And what He is asking for… that's what we want to unpack this morning.The God of Peace 23aLiterally Paul says here: “And may He - the God of peace - Himself…” What a personal God we serve. He involves Himself intimately in the affairs of man. God Himself will make us holy. He does not expect us to make strides in personal struggle and in keeping ourselves from. God does it Himself. But why the God of peace? There have been quite a few that ask this question… why does Paul address God as the God of peace in this context. Personal holiness is not often thought of in the context of peace.Romans 5:1 gives us a reason perhaps. Through justification by our faith we have peace with God. Justification is a legal term that is akin to acquit. We have been declared righteous through our faith in Jesus Christ and because of this legal ruling we have peace with God. It is through this peace with God that He acts on our behalf, beginning a work in us that He will complete. A work that Paul calls sanctification. It is God's will that we become holy - and because we are at peace with Him, He can work it in us in such a personal way.Thorough sanctification 23b“May God sanctify you through and through.” This pictures a completed sanctification. The word here is a strengthened form of ‘whole'. In some ways it is an exaggerated term - perhaps even hyperbole. Complete is already complete. Today we like to add the word “super” to everything to intensify the verb we are using. But compete is one of those words that already signifies completeness in its definition. And yet, here we have a intensified verb for complete. Really complete… super complete… sanctified super-complete. Paul is asked for a thorough sanctification.Purpose-driven sanctification 23cThen Paul introduces three aspects to humanity - spirit, soul, and body - that has spawned voluminous writing on the constitution of mankind. Does man consist of material and immaterial (body and spirit) or of three parts body, soul and spirit. Or is man - as the Jews view man - holistic (a living soul). To argue this misses the point entirely, since Paul is focused on the completeness of man, not to define man's inner divisions. More dangerous, however, is the idea that man is a trinity, as God is a trinity (created in His image). This is not the case. A body without a spirit or soul is dead - it cannot live without the immaterial parts, which immediately argues against a trinity. Man is created in God's image in that he was given personality (intellect, emotion and will) and that He is a moral being capable of choosing good or evil.What Paul is explaining here is that man is completely - all the way through - kept. Paul may be - perhaps - arguing against Greek philosophical dualism. The Greek Philosophers believed that man was body and soul and that the body was evil (earthly) and the soul was divine. The human struggle, then, is to rid oneself of the body and ascend to the heavenly. This spawned the idea that it did not matter what a person did in the body, for it was evil.When Paul is discussing the complete and thorough sanctification and discussing the preserving of man, he begins with the preservation of the spirit and then includes the two terms that Greek philosophers use: soul and body, to prove the eternal value of the body (look back at chapter 4). The point, however, is that man is completely and entirely preserved blameless.This impressed the believers in Thessalonica is evidenced by the inscription on some ancient Christian graves in Thessalonica: amemptos… which means “blameless.” What an expression of confidence in the work of God. Paul requests that the believer might be kept blameless at the Parousia of the Lord (emphasis is Paul's) Jesus Christ. When He comes, may we be constantly guarded completely blameless.The God of Faithfulness 24And then Paul's capstone: God called you… He is faithful to do it. It echoes Philippians 1:6 - He who began a good work in you will complete it. God is faithful to us to do it… we are commanded to do it… He is going to do it. Now that is an incredible liberty. God calls us to holiness, but He is the One that sanctifies. Live this way… but I'll do it. This is the grace of God… to call us to something and yet do it Himself. Our's is more a matter of getting out of the way of the work that God wants to do.Pray and Greet 25-26And then Paul asks that the believers will pray in such a way for them as well. No one is above this need and dependency on God. Greet one another… I'm just going to add this in closing… the only way you can greet one another - and ‘with a kiss' is simply a cultural reference… it doesn't mean we need to go around kissing each other - the only way you can greet one another is if you are meeting one another. You need to be in Church. The writer of Hebrews warns us: don't make it a habit to be out of Church (10:25). You need the encouragement and you need the challenge… and you need the prayers of your believers. Be in Church. Stop skipping because it's inconvenient or hard. The necessary things of life are always hard.So…Is holiness your wish?How thoroughly do you want to be sanctified?What is het goal of your sanctification?Who is making you holy?

This week we start with Question 1 in the Summa Theologicam written by Saint Thomas Aquians. Fr. Luuk Jansen OP continues to talk with Fr. John Harris OP about the start of the Summa. The first 'question' in the Summa looks at some of the foundations of our journey to God. Why do we need God to reveal Himself? What is the role of theology, and how does it fit in with Philosophy and reason. These are some of the topics of this weeks dicussion. The music this week: Never Been a Moment, Micah Tyler - Different - EP Even If - MercyMe - Lifer Change the World (feat. Hollyn) - Derek Minor - Reflection Please send any comments or any question to lightoftruth@dominicans.ie and we will take them into account in the programs to come.

Following Jesus means submitting what little we have to Him, that He might do the impossible thru us.       What strikes you about this passage/miracle of Jesus?   Why did Jesus engage the disciples so deeply in this miracle? What didn’t He just do it all Himself? What is He trying to teach them/us by doing […] The post YOLO appeared first on City Church Boise.

When it comes to gender, gender roles and gender relationships our culture seems to be the voice of reason. But what if we looked to the blueprints given to us by the Creator, Himself? What is God's intent for our sexuality? Today we take a look at how God created intentionally, By Design.

Lesson 1: (Part I) Some people are ______________ by God’s judgments (Part II) while others are _______________ (2 Pet 2:6; Exo 12:38; Josh 2:9-11, 8:33, 35, 11:19, 24:11; Rom 11:22; Rev 11:13, 16:8-11, 21). Lesson 2: In the Old Testament God was criticized for being ______ ________________ by... ______ 21:7-17. ________________ 1:2-13. ________________ 12:1-4. __________ in Psalm 73:1-14. ______________ 3:13-15. __________ 4:2. Lesson 3: God’s mercy was shown by sparing: (Part I) Noah and his family (2 Pet 2:5). (Part II) Lot and his family (2 Pet 2:7-8) (Part III) Rahab and her family (Josh 2). (Part IV) The Gibeonites (Josh 9). (Part V) The __________________ (Jonah 3:10). NOTE: Parts I through IV are from the previous two sermons. Family Worship Guide Memory Verses: 1 John 4:4 Day 1: Considering Lesson 1, describe how God’s judgments could be considered merciful. Consider the description of the plagues against Egypt:what were some of the purposes of those plagues? Consider why and how strangers and foreigners were drawn to God, in the OT. What does God use now to draw people to Himself? What is it about the church – us, the body of Christ – that can be used to draw people to faith in Christ? Day 2: Consider Lesson 3 and read Job 21:7-17, Hab. 1:2-4, Jer. 12:1, Ps. 72:2-13. What characteristic of God was criticized more than his judgment/severity? Examine your own heart and discuss with your family/friends: what type of person/people seem beyond forgiveness because of their wickedness? Pray for faith and repentance for them. Day 3: Read Jonah 4 & Luke 15 and consider: What parallels exist between Jonah and older brother? Consider the “Father” in both passages.What similarities exist? Why does the “Father” in both passages look the same?