Tag: God
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The DMX Files
As I took off the Silence spoke to me and I truly listened. It was like Elihu speaking to Job about God’s goodness and majesty in Job 36 and God breaking it down in Job 38-41. I had nothing to add. When it was all said and done, I had to admit as Job did in…
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“I” Does Not Exist – The Power and Peril of Family Systems (Boulder, CO)
When One Suffers, We All Suffer I have been trying to do soul surgery on myself ever since learning about the shooting at the King Soopers in Boulder, CO where I have shopped countless times and sometimes drop my daughter off for her gymnastics carpool. I am doing this because in my heart of hearts,…
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All Will Know
I am looking forward to the day when I will no longer be called to preach. Does that sound shocking? Perhaps provocative? Well, to some degree it was meant to be because I want to get your attention so that you hear what I have to say next. I am looking forward to the day…
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…As Yourself : The Way of Love
He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” –…
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The Art of Wasting Potential
One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power … If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn’t use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That’s why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities. Marie-Louise von Franz…
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Hear the (W)hole Story
Why is it that so many people see other perspectives and experiences as a threat? And why is it that we also tend to fill in holes and gaps in stories with whatever the path of least resistance offers us? As a person with a philosophical bent, I can admit that in most cases, I…
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You Don’t Owe Jack, But Love!
Love for One Another Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall not covet”; and any other commandment, are summed up in this word, “Love your neighbor…
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Doing God’s Will – In Honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“I just want to do God’s will”. These words. This seven word contract with our Creator were some of the last public words that he spoke before being murdered the next day on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel by a country—and I do mean by a country–that praised his stance for non-violence when it…
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Wisdom Begins in Wonder
We often think that wisdom is in what we consider to be the “high places”. But in God’s reality, there is nowhere that wisdom is not because wisdom is embedded in all of creation. In this message, I reflect on wisdom I witnessed from one of the members of our homeless community. What I don’t…
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Saved By Homelessness
Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” Jesus What do you make of that verse written above—“the Son of Man has no place to lay his head?” When I hear it, I imagine Jesus basically living on the streets with his friends giving from his spiritual abundance freely…
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