LRC, Houston – An Evolving Spiritual Community
In America, Christianity is dwindling fast. Questions are coming fast as well; questions like, why do you say you love Jesus all the time and yet cheat on your wife? Questions like why have Christian nations killed over 100,000,000 people in the last century? I have no answers for why Christian nations are wasting so much of our planet’s natural resources as well.
I could list many more questions but hopefully you see the point.
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June 4, 2006 – While we exegete the Scriptures meticulously, analyze each word in the Greek and Hebrew, look for the meaning of the tenses, compare Strong Concordance numbers, and other grammatical insights, we would be well served to also take into consideration that the Bible is a compilation of 66 books that all point to a simple love story. The love of a Father for His Son, and the love of the Son for His Father.
Don’t you just hate it when you’re really satisfied, things are going well, and yet you’re being offered something new. It has to be good, right? Well, I used to think that. One of my favorite expressions was that the ladder of success was not crowded at the top. It’s all a part of that white, male, dominance attitude thing.
The proverbial ladder-climbing! Such deceptions it holds.
Carl Jung had it right when he said, “My journey consisted in climbing down ten thousand ladders so that now at the end of my life I can extend the hand of friendship to this little clod of earth that I am.” We’ve been so duped into thinking that getting to the top is what life is all about, keeping up with the Jonses’, and being #1. And so we live our lives in anxiety over what we are not, forgetting what we are.
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Are we progressing as a nation, a world, and how does one measure that?
You have probably heard this information before but it brings to light one answer to the question above. The top public school discipline problems in 1941 were: talking, chewing gum, making noises, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, dressing improperly, and littering. In 1986 the same poll revealed the top problems as: rape, robbery, assault, burglary, arson, bombings, murder, suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, gang warfare, abortion, and venereal diseases.” It’s really not that safe to have your kids in public school.
And we think things are better?
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Letting Go
You’ve probably heard the phrase, “Let go and let God”.
I have to admit that I don’t really like the sound of it. It sounds about as interesting as taking up my cross: oh yes, and root canal. But, one can rationally shrug it off by saying, “I am letting go”. Of course when the EGO says that, the reverse is true. The ego is just hoping that the mind and spirit will come into passive agreement, without any evidence required. Finally, there’s the cop out that I’d let go if I just knew what it was I should be letting go.
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