Not wholehearted?
It feels wonderful to be wholehearted in God. But sin enters by degrees: partial loyalty to God, conflicted loyalty, I-could-care-less, and revolt. There’s a ping-pont metaphor for the way back.
Jeff
Hidden treasure and a pearl
The family of God is like a treasure hidden in a field, which a man discovered. And in his joy, he sold everything so that he could buy the field. The family of God is also like a merchant who went searching for pearls, and when he found the most beautiful one and … Read more
Jesus and scientific living
Evangelist Evan was reminiscing with scientist Simon about his childhood, when he would be moved to tears while reading the New Testament gospels, especially in Matthew’s portrayal of Jesus’ beautiful wholeness of righteousness. “Happy are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.” That righteousness is a gift from God is … Read more
Spiritual experience
Watch Mystical Maria: Talk of the spirit of God within is often a way of affirming that we can each have our own personal spiritual experience of God. We do not have to go along with stuffy traditional authority or superficial contemporary enthusiasms—even mine. Scientific Simon: All over the world, religious experience tends to reflect … Read more
Liberation
Spiritual liberation from inner resistance and outer obstacles comes from using spiritual force to break through to the new life in God.
The supreme desire and the supreme joy
Evan: I came across a definition of the gospel that puzzles me because it’s different, but it really attracts me. The gospel—the supreme desire to do the Father’s will coupled with the supreme joy of the faith realization of sonship with God.
Assurance
Sophia, if I were just meeting you, and if you expressed this concern, I would say, if you receive God as your Father, then you are a daughter of God. That means that you are born again. And that means that you have the power to overcome doubt. And that victory is your faith. Your salvation, your eternal life is assured. And you stay with the program by doing the will of your divine Parent.
Do you have to believe in Jesus to have eternal life?
Seven friends discuss the question, “How important in the religion that Jesus lived and taught, was the teaching that Jesus is the divine Son of God?”
What happens after you die?
Sophia the philosopher and Evan the evangelist discuss the possibility of growth after death. Why is heaven not just one place? The Hebrew Bible speaks of “the heaven of heavens.” Jesus says, “In my Father’s house are many mansions. In Second Corinthians, Paul refers to a man (most probably himself) being caught up in the third heaven. Hmmm. What’s going on?