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The Journey to Oneness (1): Everything is Connected
Jesus was hard to understand. So hard, it got him killed.
Let’s be real… he was kind of weird:
- speak to the mountain, and you can put it in the sea
- love the people who hurt you
- and so forth
So what’s a follower of Jesus to do? Continue reading
Posted in The Journey to Oneness
Tagged coping strategies, oneness, perseverance, two-ness
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Confession: It’s Good for the Soul (2)
We continue our introduction to the ancient practice of confession; rooted in the ancient virtue of humility. (Next week we’ll get to the practical how-to’s.)
We human beings are in a protracted struggle with existential shame, and before we even get to the issue we confess, the very act of revealing our weakness deals a blow to the control shame has in our souls. But if we don’t address our framing worldview (mostly inherited from the Greeks), we’ll never prevail in this struggle. Continue reading
Posted in The Art of Humility
Tagged Carl Jung, confession, coping strategies, humility, shame
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Confession: It’s Good for the Soul (1)
For those present on Sunday, I didn’t use the word “confession” until the last few sentences of the lesson. We have such a limited, skewed, and religiously ritualized idea of what it means, I wanted to tell a story first. … Continue reading
On Tolerance of Other’s Imperfections: Francois Fenelon (follow up)
by Doug Hammack Add synopsis [Download MP3]
Posted in Tolerance (Fenelon)
Tagged community, coping strategies, guilt, Love, loving others, tolerance
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