Category Archives: Individual Lesson
Life is Like Freecell
In this message, Robin Camu shares with us some insights she has had recently on how living life and growing to personal and spiritual maturity are similar to the game of Freecell. Continue reading
Are you feeling oppressed?
Based on Exodus 1:8-14, Will (a member of NRCC) shares with us a message on what we can remember or do in times of personal oppression. Continue reading
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False Negatives
“Grace seems to create the very emptiness that grace alone can fill.” – Richard Rohr
We all begin our spiritual life as either a false positive or a false negative, but we don’t have to remain there. Are you still a false negative of worthiness?
God has instilled in everything (including us) an inherent worth, but sometimes we get in the way of that. He has told us not to call unholy what He has made holy or to call unloved what He has called loved. But how do we change our view? Continue reading
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Relax! Your Journey is in Good Hands
Next week I’m going to begin a lesson “The Clutch of Death.” I’ll talk about how when we try and hang on to happiness, try to clutch the things we desire, while we may attain fleeting moments of pleasure, true and abiding happiness will elude us.
As preamble to that lesson, today I encourage you to relax on the journey. Striving, straining, and fretting about our soul’s advancement on the journey yields very little return. Peace, hope, and trust, on the other hand, yield a tidy return.
Desire… that’s the primary driver of the spiritual life. Desire God, desire truth, desire virtue, desire peace. Desire spiritual life, and then simply pay attention. God… The Universe, Ultimacy, will all conspire to take us where our soul yearns to go. Continue reading
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God is a noun, right? Not a verb, right?
I am sharing some insights about the nature of God from my thoughts and meetings over the last several weeks. Continue reading
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Meditation: Good for the Soul (A Reminder Lesson)
I want to remind you of an important spiritual practice and encourage you to take it up this new year. If you don’t have a regular meditation practice, have a listen. Continue reading
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Tagged centering prayer, Christian Meditation, lectio divina
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Backing into Truth
As co-creators, we can access the Agape Love of the indwelling Trinity by clinging, by patting blindfolded into the future and by backing into truth. When we do access this Agape Love, this indwelling Trinity, we sometimes experience energy, sometimes strength, and sometimes stillness. Continue reading