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Not wholehearted?
October 7, 2019
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.
Hidden treasure and a pearl
September 24, 2019
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 also the most expensive, he sold everything he had in order to buy it. Discovering the treasure is finding… Read More
Jesus and scientific living
July 19, 2019
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 evident from the passage from Isaiah, “My soul shall rejoice in the love of my God, for he has clothed… Read More
Spiritual experience
June 14, 2019
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 the religions that people already have. Religions give people expectations of what they can or should or will experience, and… Read More
Liberation
June 7, 2019
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
May 31, 2019
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
May 24, 2019
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?
May 17, 2019
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?
May 10, 2019
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?