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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
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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
Friends for the Fray: The Lost Art of Confession (part 1)
The ancient art of confession is lost to most Christians today. It is a loss that causes great peril to our souls. In this lesson, we talk about the importance of this ancient practice, and some of the reasons we tend to resist it. Continue reading
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Tagged ancient spiritual paths, breathing groups, confession, forgiveness, grace, greed, lust, prayer, pride, self-awareness, shame, sin, spiritual friends
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Tending Our Souls (Introduction)
Today we lay a foundation for a series of lessons about tending the gardens of our souls. To become the kind of people other people want to be around, indeed the kind of people we ourselves want to be around, requires attentiveness to spiritual growth. In this lesson we look at why this is so, and suggest a motivation for being diligent in following the ancient spiritual paths. Continue reading
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Tagged ancient spiritual paths, habits, human nature, shame, true/false self
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The Crazy People Who Live in Forgiveness-Land – Part 3
by Doug Hammack [Download MP3]
Posted in Living in Forgiveness-Land
Tagged forgiveness, grace, Love, mercy, shame, true/false self
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