The universe mirrors back to us what we present and send to it. The Bible says it a different way, but the same principle applies. Cast your bread upon the water and it will not come back void. What are you seeing that you are not? What are you not seeing that you are?
Monthly Archive for March, 2009
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To idolize something (someone) is basically an excessive admiration, devotion, envy or attachment to a person or thing. It’s like many Christians who IDOLIZE the Bible (Bibliolatry) or the man, Jesus. For much of my adult life I too idolized Jesus. I put him on a pedestal, accepted the teaching that he was the ONLY begotten Son of God. And then I began to question why Jesus called himself Son of man. Son of MAN? Continue reading ‘Model Or Idol?’
Twelve years ago I read a small book that was far from the kind of reading that I’d normally do. I was ten years into having started a church, and I was seeing that the changes I had made from a denomination to a charismatic church weren’t enough. There was more: had to be more. I didn’t FIT in the denomination, nor could I wear Saul’s charismatic armor. Continue reading ‘Peacocks & Penguins’
Ancient wisdom warns us about judging by “appearances”. For those that SEE only print on paper, death is the result. Until an individual (regardless of religion) can go behind, beyond, or past the visible print to what the spirit is saying and interpreting, one will be hugging the shadow and missing the substance, watching the game instead of playing it, and working at being what one already IS. Continue reading ‘Seeing Spiritually’
The duality of religion, regardless of which religion that we’re speaking of blinds us to the richness of the Spirit of God. God didn’t just create Christians and say that everyone MUST believe as Christians do. Nor did God create Hinduism and say that millions of Gods are to be worshipped. Each religion and their tunnel vision has made it so: though it is NOT! Continue reading ‘Blinder Bias & Tunnel Vision’
What was once called Tabor light, I now call uncreated light. What was once a halo is now an aura. And what was once a mandorla is a coronal photograph. However, it’s all about God regardless of what we call it. Are you letting your light shine?
If our religious beliefs were wrong, would we want to know it? We SAY yes. If there was a religion that was different than ours that was truer would we want to discover it? Few could bring themselves to the point of even contemplating such a heresy that would even occasion answering the question. If we’re honest with ourselves, a difficult thing to do indeed, we would admit that all we’re wanting to do is CONFIRM what we already BELIEVE. Continue reading ‘Confirmations Confession’
We go through life out-picturing and BEING what we SEE with the glasses that we have allowed others to place on our head. We begin with those large oval glasses called religion (atheisim and agnosticism is a religious belief system as well). As we move into our teens or twenties, we have probably tried on several pairs of denominational glasses. Few ever have their eyes checked after that, and thus they SEE only what they’ve decided they want to SEE. To justify such a position they claim INFALLIBILITY be it in the Pope or the Bible. Continue reading ‘Faith Without Works Is Dead!’
Every religion has created over the years some sacred cows that should be placed on the altar and slaughtered. However, we hold on to the “limiting beliefs” of these sacred cows feeling that if we abandoned them, we’d be left with nothing. God is not a person, nor a thing: NO THING! So, maybe accepting the no-thing that would result in killing the sacred cows could lead one to the true God. Continue reading ‘Barn Yard Blues (Let’s Make More Bricks)’
The Greek Jesus
Jesus was a JEW! So, tell me, how have we Westerners turned Jesus (even the name) into a Greek- an American? The Bible, as we Americans know it, is a Greek document, and thus we turn to Greek interpreters for meaning (Zodhiates); yet Jesus was a Jew. How does that work? Have you ever asked yourself why a Jew would give their Jewish Messiah a Greek name? Whats up with that? They didn’t! Continue reading ‘The Greek Jesus’