Hope
December 1, 2013 - First Sunday of Advent
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Reflections on the Inward Spiritual Journey
11/24/2013
I. Readings:
Colossians 1: 11-20 13-14 God rescued us from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He’s set us up in the kingdom of the Son he loves so much, the Son who got us out of the pit we were in, got rid of the sins we were doomed to keep repeating.15-18 We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body.
The Question About the Resurrection
November 10, 2013
Texts: Luke 20:27-40
Exodus 3:13-15
Today I want to begin by looking at our Gospel passage, at the problem presented by the Sadducees, and the solution revealed by Jesus. I think the problem is a very real and present one in our age, a narrow and concrete way of thinking. Jesus speaks, however, to our religious experience, which is so much richer and fuller, and leaves the problem behind. Then I want to look at how retreat is a way of cultivating the experience that saves us from the problem embodied by the Sadducees, and helps us enter the communion of which Jesus speaks.
The Journey of Spiritual Formation and Growth
Nov 3, 2013
The Experience of the Divine in the 21st Century
October 6, 2013
Text: Job 37:1-13
The Other Half of the Second Greatest Commandment and the Golden Rule: Self-Love as a Key to Fulfillment in Love Relationships
September 8, 2013
On their Diamond Anniversary – celebrating 60 years of marriage – a couple was asked, “What’s your secret?” The couple answered, “There is no secret. The first 50 years of marriage are hard; after that, it’s easy.”
So the bad news is that most of us experience committed love relationshipsas hard. Some have decided that they’re so hard they’re not worth having. Put two humans together expecting that the other will meet their needs and tolerate their craziness, and there is bound to be a lot of friction and/or disappointment. But marriage does not have to be hard.
What can make it easier and more fulfilling?
Living The New Story in the Midst of The Old
August 25, 2013
We will be here forever....
We will be here because we are part of a much larger story of our own weaving,
a story foretold by our ancestors and lived by all those who travel on the good road.
These words from Ojibway teacher Thomas Peacock jumped off the page into my heart as I read them in a book lying on the table of the visitor center. Cheryl and I were on our annual summer pilgrimage to Pukaskwa, a wilderness park on the Canadian coast of Lake Superior -- what they call "the wild shore of an inland sea." As things have evolved in the park since it opened in 1983, the Obijway people who have lived there for centuries have become a major part of the park management. So it was no surprise to find in the visitor center this book entitled, We Look in All Directions, which was filled with old Ojibway stories and history collected for their wisdom with a view to crafting a new story for this new time.
Creativity
August 11, 2013
Father/Mother fill me with your creativity so we may be empowered to bear the fruit of your mission: from the Aramaic: Neil Douglas-Klotz (NDK)
Self-Hidden in Christ
Kent Beduhn
August 4, 2013
“Out of infinite glory, may God give you the power through the Spirit for your hidden self [inner being] to grow strong, so that Christ may live in our hearts through faith.” -Ephesians 3
I only have a few things to say, then I’d like to hear some of your reflections on some questions. I’m going to be talking about our hidden self, our True Self.
1. God created us to take genuine risks.
2. We become more like what we focus on.
3. Love is the origin and end, the start and the end point, of the truth.
Honoring & Caring for the Earth
July 21, 2013
This morning we will read togetherreadings from the book ‘Earth Prayers”. These prayers seek to heal the division that has grown between us andthe rest of nature. They tell us: Payattention. Attend to the relationships alive among all forms of life. The imagination to explore the binding curvethat joins us together. Join with it. Care for it as yourself. When the human spirit is understood in thissense, as the mode of consciousness to which we are connected to the planet asa whole, it becomes clear that our entire life is an Earth Prayer.