On a mission to create and inspire peace, love, trust, and harmony among believers of Christ…
I recently read a post about a family that actually fakes being Christian to fit in with others in their community. This post was not surprising to me. As disturbing as the article was, at least this family was big enough to admit that they are faking. So often I wonder if the people I encounter…
I have to admit, I never really understood what Lent was all about until recently. I knew that it involved giving something up for a certain amount of time as a show of faith or something like that, but I didn’t really get it. Coincidentally, I recently decided to stop drinking soda. I didn’t really do…
This funny story was taken from This Day’s Thought: Adam Clarke, a well-known theologian and commentator, was an early riser. A young preacher wanted the eminent minister to tell him how he managed it. “Do you pray about it?” he asked. “No,” was the reply. “I just get up.”~The Standard
Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt … even if you say to this mountain, “Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,” it will be done.~Matthew 21:21 According to Christianity, living by faith is a the way to go. If you have faith in and accept your God and…
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I have always found it interesting that something which is supposed to instill love in our hearts has caused so much anger and hatred throughout our world. I’m talking about religion, of course. For as much as our religious leaders extoll the virtue of love, there is a hint of hate in every sermon that…
Prayer for Peace, Love, and Happiness Let me be loved, let me be happy, let me be peaceful. Let my friends be happy, loved, and peaceful. Let my perceived enemies be happy, loved, and peaceful. Let all beings be happy, loved, and peaceful. Let the whole world experience these things. Taken from www.beliefnet.com.
Misdirected life force is the activity in disease process. Disease has no energy save what it borrows from the life of the organism. It is by adjusting the life force that healing must be brought about, and it is the sun as transformer and distributor of primal spiritual energy that must be utilized in this…
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.~Hindu proverb Taken from: http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/hindu_proverb_quotes.html
Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.~Eskimo saying Today, I am thinking about death. Not in the sense that I think I’m dying, but from the standpoint of what happens to us after we pass on from this…
Read more Today's Pondering: A World of Neverending Happiness…?
A question that has come up for me time and time again is about how mysticism is viewed in the Bible and in other religious practices. To begin studying this, I first looked up the definition of mysticism at Wikipedia.com. Mysticism (from the Greek μυστικός, mystikos, an initiate of a mystery religion) is the pursuit…
Read more Today's Pondering: Mysticism, the Bible, Kabala, etc.?
Leading the Follower 