Jesus’ message includes several teachings for the heart—the feeling dimension of the human personality. The accent is on joy, but there remains the question of how Jesus processed a range of emotions from sadness, through distress, suffering, grieving, and mourning, to extreme affliction. If he had …
Hackathon divinity moments
A hackathon is a fast-paced, high-tech problem-solving “marathon” involving teams who compete. I recently experienced a spiritually-centered hackathon responding to various problems connected to the coronavirus pandemic. This video shared divinity breakthroughs in teamwork that I observed. Long …
Anxiety dissolved and recycled
For a quickened 9:06 video or audio file. A couple days ago, I read two articles by writers who were describing their own anxiety, anger, depression, and grieving over what is happening to our country politically and to the planet ecologically. Upon awakening this morning, I began thinking about my …
Saved by a child’s faith
The blogpost approaches the topic somewhat differently than do the 9:20 video and audio file. As the prophet Jeremiah sees the destruction of Jerusalem coming, his soul laments in a purity and depth that have a lesson for us today. His lament, his grieving, his sadness, is so free of anger, so …
How to love God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength
There are times when we totally love God, and then there are other times. I grew up with the command to love God with all my heart and mind and soul and strength. The command was not presented in a fearsome and judgmental context, but in a kind and gentle way. It registered on my mind, and I …
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This website is under new management by the same person
All things are becoming new. I am no longer in the philosophy of living business. That business has been bought out by a new preaching start-up. The former employee will be retained, and intellectual communion will continue, but everything is now subordinated to the proclamation of the …
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