Category: Awakening
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A Tale of Three Sheepđ
Person A: âYouâre a sheep.Person B: âNo. Youâre a sheep.â Person C: âWhy are you calling each other sheep?â Persons A and B: âBecause the only people I listen to who told me to think for myself told me that anyone who disagrees with me is a sheep.â Person C: So let me get this…
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Two Ideas One Mind: The Vices and Virtues of Cognitive Dissonance
I sometimes wonder if hypocrisy comes from a person’s inability to harmonize the seemingly divergent awarenesses that arise as a result of them experiencing cognitive dissonance. Take for example someone like the segregationist Senator, Strom Thurmond who, despite adamantly advocating against civil rights for Black Americans and pushed for state’s rights to impose segregation, was…
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Hearing the Inner Voice of God
In this conversation with Bishop Carlton Pearson, we talk about our experiences listening to the Voice of God, Forgiveness, and other subjects related to faith and Living.
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The Many Realms of Knowledge
There’s a reason why people say knowledge is power. We have convinced ourselves that the one who knows has an advantage over those who do not know. And in many instance, this can prove accurate. But there are different realms of knowledge and with them we find the ability to access different levels of wisdom.…
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The Cleansing of the Multitudes (A Parable)
And it came to pass, that the Teacher had been giving instruction for about 2 hours when some of her apprentices came up to her and said, “Teacher, the people have come to us and said that they need a potty break. But they do not have any tissue or hand sanitizer. What should we…
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State of Confusion 2020
Sometimes I feel actual physical discomfort when I think about the decisions that are before our world over the next generation or so. I’m the type of person who will choose to try and see where other people are coming from almost to the degree of great emotional risk. I have listened to people of…
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Awakening From Death to Life
Faith Though Iâve spoken at length I havenât said a word And all this nothing that Iâm saying Is nothing but absurd I speak with lies So that you might hear the truth I display for you illusion That you might have proof Do you know that this life, as most of us engage it,…
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The Comfort Paradox
The first time I heard the saying, “Afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted”, it was in seminary. I heard it from a cohort leader who said it in a way that led me to believe that she made it up. She never said she made it up. But, that was her response, when I…
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Power Beyond Measure Part 4
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. — Marianne Williamson One day my dad called me out of nowhere and invited me to visit him in Mississippi. He said he wanted to talk to me and that it had…
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Being With God
God is the ground of being, being-itself; who concerns us ultimately. Thus, God is our ultimate concern. â Paul Tillich Iâll be honest with you and say that on a weekly if not daily basis, I find myself wondering what good I am doing as a pastor. Itâs not that I donât appreciate what I do or the people with…
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