Category: Enlightenment
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Give Us Us Free!
Let me begin this post by declaring that contrary to some beliefs, one person cannot speak for their entire race, group, or culture. As we all know there are innumerable diversities at work in every individual and my comments with regard to the subject of race, religion, culture, or any other category under which one…
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How Certain Material “Miracles” Become Distractions
Nothing used to annoy me more than the preachers of the Prosperity Gospel. I felt like they were turning Christ’s message of faith into something you could find on an infomercial. It seemed like money and “blessings” were the only things on their minds and like any other pyramid system it was the people on…
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Forgive Them For They Know Not…
In my last post, You Won’t Like Me When I’m Angry, I said that in my opinion the greatest miracle Jesus ever did was stay on the cross. Well, if that was the greatest, the second was to pray for the people who were cheering to see him there. Imagine that you have been betrayed. It…
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You Won’t Like Me When I Am Angry
In Ephesians 4:26, 27 it says “‘Be angry, and do not sin’:do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil.” This is a verse that I have had to remind myself of more frequently in the past few years than I ever have before. In general I am…
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Get Rich or Try Dying
Picture this. You’re watching a commercial for luxury cruise travel. It shows happy rich people clinking together champagne glasses, dancing, and dining on the finest foods. The ad implores you not to settle for less. After all, when you travel, you deserve the best. You start trying to project the image of yourself into the…
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I Don’t Need To Look At The Sun To Feel It
I was on a break during class when I saw a classmate, Sarah Wilson, looking at her smartphone. I jokingly said to her, how can you be looking at your phone when it’s beautiful out today. Her response was simple and ultimately struck me as very profound with regard to its spiritual implications. She replied,…
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F.E.A.R. the Truth
In this video I do my best to to put into words the frustration that I am experiencing in this moment realizing that I do not have the words to convey the Love I believe is Present for each and every one of us. When I look at the world today I see people living for the…
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A Forgiveness Prescription
“Just forgive it.” That’s something we try to tell our daughter Calista whenever something upsets her. We don’t expect that it makes too much sense to her at three years old, but the hope is that if she hears it enough it will start to work its way into her consciousness and eventually she will…
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