Posted by Rev. Anna Ruth Hollingsworth ULCM, ULC
Ah the light after darkness What shall I say? GOD loves me helps me makes me whole I remembered (at last) to give Him all my problems prayer and more prayer He lifted me from the quicksand of my mind I saw the sunshine and knew it was for me
Posted by Tony Villari
How good is it to have faith in your life? Have you even considered the question in your own life? I would love to hear answers from all of my readers. These are the answers we all need to hear and consider. Your task for this coming Sunday is to answer the que...
Posted by Reverend Giovano 'Koala' Fusco
9/10/2015 Hello Everyone, I want to share something with you all, the day before yesterday I couldn't fall a sleep I was up for over 24hours; I finally fell a sleep n earlier today before I woke up I was feeling low/depressed n self doubt n even why should I continue to struggle in this world, th...
Posted by Rev. Brian Durham
Being a People of the EucharistBy the Reverend Brian Durham The Eucharist: in the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, it is the “source and summit” of the Christian Life. The question is- why? What makes the Eucharist more important than Baptism, more important than Reconcili...
Posted by Minister Richard Davidson
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Posted by Tony Villari
My friend Nyal sent me an email, the body of which I have attached below. I think it has some meaning here. One can try to make up a sermon, or one can draw from experience. It has been my experience that interesting, humorous, and meaningful anecdotes occur in our lives constantly...
Posted by reginald boober
Who does God call into ministry for Him? Is it only the well spoken, the educated, the wealthy, or those with great influence? The Bible answers these questions by telling us the story of two men who were possessed by demons. They were the terror of their town, and their lives had become degraded a...
Posted by Bridget Kielas-Fecyk
There is very little in this world that I fear. Most of them are rather common fears when it comes right down to it. I fear the sting of bees, bad winds in a storm, crashing if I’m ever up in a plane… little things that may go through a person’s mind from time to time. But there i...
Posted by Kenny Sallee
"Crossing the Bar" is an 1889 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson that is traditionally the last poem in collections of his work. It is thought that Tennyson wrote it in elegy, as the poem has a tone of finality about it. The narrator uses an extended metaphor to compare death to crossing the "sandbar" be...
Posted by Laura DiMinno
(Photo credit: Peter J. Hughes) Do you know someone who's experienced a sudden loss? A child who is struggling with the cruel behavior of other kids at school? Someone who has lost all desire to participate in life? Are you wrestling with your own "demons"? Whate...
Posted by Kenny Sallee
Life is a journey filled with lessons, hardships, heartaches, joys, celebrations and special moments that will ultimately lead us to our destination, our purpose in life. The road will not always be smooth; in fact, throughout our travels, we will encounter many challenges. Some of these ch...
Posted by Bridget Kielas-Fecyk
What I am about to say is probably going to upset a lot of people. At this point in my life, I don’t care. We are, as a species, clinically insane. We separate ourselves into “races” when there is only 1 species, humans. We separate ourselves by religion when all religions are ess...
Posted by Douglas Person
I was brought up in the Dutch Christian Reformed Church. My father was a lay minister. From Sunday School to Sunday Sermons, sin, hell and damnation were the overriding themes. The Third Dutch Christian Reformed Church did not feel like a place of peace where one could go and feel God's lo...
Posted by Laura DiMinno
Photo credit: Peter J. Hughes I was in church on Easter Sunday, 1980, singing one of my favorite hymns while, at home, my mother was scribbling her final note before overdosing on handfuls of prescribed narcotics. “Hail thee, festival day!/ Blest day that art hallowed forev...
Posted by Lloyd Hargrove
The availability of immediate and seemingly boundless information is now possible through today's internet, but does this make our decisions easier or more complicated? Human minds work through sensory inputs and internal biases in order to determine a subjective reality out of all the chaos...
Posted by Reverend Giovano 'Koala' Fusco
Hello All, After my stroke I have gained a deep love for God n Jesus, I had a vision shortly after my stroke about Jesus n the true pain n suffering He suffered n it wasn't done by the Romans; my spiritual growth increase but suffered a set back after I went to Vegas for a week where I fell off the...
Posted by Bishop Dale Day Hudson
Matthew 7:21-29 7 "It is not those who say to me, "Lord, Lord", who will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the person who does the will of my Father in heaven. When the day comes many will say to me, "Lord, Lord" did we not prophhesy in your name, cast out demons in your name, work man...
Posted by Bishop Dale Day Hudson
2 Timothy 3:1-17 3 "You may be quite sure that in the last days there are going to be some difficult times. People will be self-centered and grasping; boastful, arrogant, and rude; disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious, heartless and unappeasable; they will be sladerers, profl...
Posted by Scott Bruno
Why can't the largest, most successful religion (Christianity) of the age (2150 years) find a way to create unity among all religious beliefs? The answer is simple. Because they have created an element of exclusivity in the religion that states, our way is the right way, and only way, and no others ...
Posted by Robert Bruce Kelsey
Emergence, Kenosis, and Communal IncarnationIf the view of kenosis proposed in the previous Part is even marginally correct, it has three theologically significant implications. First, if god is love that self-actualizes, then when humans act lovingly they embody, they actualize, they incarnate, wha...
Posted by LaCretia Weber
WITH ALL THE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING GAY, RELIGIOUS, AND GENDER RIGHTS. I ASK EVERYONE OUT THERE TO TAKE A MINUTE AND THINK ABOUT THE TRUE FAIRNESS IN THE MATTER.1) IS IT FAIR TO BOTH PARTIES?2) ARE YOU BEING PHYSICALLY HARMED?3) DOES THIS INVADE YOUR BODY RIGHTS OR PRIVACY?4) JUST BECAUSE IT'S NOT ...
Posted by LaCretia Weber
I FIND THIS FASCINATING AND VERY CONTROVERSIAL. THIS TRANSLATION HERE STATES MANKIND. NOT MAN. ALSO THERE ARE DIFFERENT FORMS OF LIE. THEN AGAIN IT IS ALL ABOUT INTERPRETATION. PERSONALLY I SEE IN THIS PARTICULAR VERSE THAT LIE IS NOT TRANSLATED AS LAYING. ALSO I VIEW CULTURAL TIMES, POPULATIONS, AN...
Posted by LaCretia Weber
Jeremiah 7:8 Behold, you trust in lying words, that cannot profit. I LIKE THIS VERSE. BY TRUSTING LIES YOU ARE TRUSTING FALSE TENSES. IT IS NOT RESPONSIBLE TO TRUST FICTION BUT RESPONSIBLE TO FIND KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH. IN TODAY'S WORLD WE HAVE THIS VAST COMMUNICATION NETWORK, WE HAVE ACCE...
Posted by LaCretia Weber
Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirs up strifes: but love covers all sins. BEAUTIFUL VERSE! LOVE COVERS ALL SINS. SO WOULD IT BE FAIR TO SAY LOVE WASHES AWAY SINS? OR LOVE ERASES ALL SIN? MAYBE THE LOVE YOU HAVE AND GIVE IS ENOUGH PASSION THAT SIN IS THEN IRRELEVANT? THE POINT IS REGARDLESS OF SEX, COLO...
Posted by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG
In ancient Greece (469 – 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance, who ran up to him excitedly and said, “Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students?” “Wait a moment...
Posted by Reverend Giovano 'Koala' Fusco
History has shown when a nation is at war n battles on too many fronts they have a greater chance of being unable to win; I say this because Christians are fighting on too many fronts: 1) the Lesbian/Gay front 2) the front to save unborn children 2a) by condemning women that decide to not ...
Posted by Rev. Anna Ruth Hollingsworth ULCM, ULC
When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law. -- Matt 7:28-29 NIV It is easy for us to say Jesus' authority came from GOD because Jesus IS GOD. But those at that time had never e...
Posted by Rev. Anna Ruth Hollingsworth ULCM, ULC
There are several modern temptations that parallel the types of those Jesus encountered in the desert: All of these sins have the one common thread of a false sense of entitlement. We believe we deserve everything we want. We believe that the world owes us. We believe that we can t...
Posted by Robert Bruce Kelsey
Kenosis and Scientific Theology Was Kenosis a One-Time Event?McCall’s application is a good example of how emergence and kenosis are used in contemporary theology. The problem for us here is that it seems to close the door on kenotic experience for anyone other than Jesus. But that’s ea...
Posted by Rev. Anna Ruth Hollingsworth ULCM, ULC
Bodies scattered one by one Memories as blood Wander soul move along Emotions flood Conflicts resolve Planets revolve Align destroy make new Pain wells aches swell What is one once was two Death becomes life Singe soul's strife my home the War Zone
Posted by Rev. Anna Ruth Hollingsworth ULCM, ULC
Birds of pray in a row fat carcass shining Take my prayer in your greedy beak break its back hope hangs limp below your cold knowing eye Fly away Nevermore jagged rock rends your flesh My well-aimed bid for freedom cheers me on Birds of pray in a row Wary now leave my prayer alon...
Posted by Kenneth Roome
When I moved to North Carolina the first thing I did, even before I found a job, was volunteer as a docent at the local art gallery. Time passed, I moved, got married and moved back. Since then I haven't done any docent work for a while. So today at lunch my wife and I were discussing No...
Posted by Scott Bruno
“75 per cent of the species on Earth today could be lost in just two generations’ time.” In fact, news broke recently from Stanford, Berkeley, Duke and many others with the headlines stating we are now officially into our 6th extinction event. This news was not aired on mains...
Posted by Robert Bruce Kelsey
Kenosis Theology and Communal Incarnation – Part 1 Kenosis: Linking the Divine and Mundane What Is Kenosis?The source text for kenosis is Paul’s Philippians 2:5-7: “Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equalit...
Posted by Rev. Anna Ruth Hollingsworth ULCM, ULC
Jesus' Coming is to be a glorious event. But it has its sobering side, too. There will be the separation of the sheep and the goats. Repentance is our way to remain sheep. It's not enough to say we're turning away from sins; we must do that, time and time again. We are living in the end...
Posted by Tony Villari
When was the last time you thought for the spiritual welfare of another, asked God to bless them, and not yourself? Just a thought... Not typical for me, this is a short post. It was brought on by a reader of mine in the Philippines. Please take a moment to consider Bernad...
Posted by Louis Harris
One of the Greatests gifts God has given us is the ability to connect directly with him through meditation and prayer. Over the last 9 years my life has changed so much because of this gift. Through meditation and prayer I have discovered an addtional tool in connecting with God and that is the use ...
Posted by Rev. T. Tucker Forensic Psychologist (Ret.)
The Gayatri Mantra is a spiritual river that flows with the vibration of the beginning of time, which has no beginning. All is an illusion and this mantra awakens us to the illusion and one by one each soul awakens, and the river flows on. Relax & Enjoy the mystic healing sounds of ...
Posted by Pastor Mary Stephenson O.M
Almost a month ago my second to the youngest daughter Shauntelle, her new boyfriend, and her 6 month old son Noah (my youngest grandson) moved to Tennesse to live with my second to the oldest daughter Shay, her fiance Michael, and their two kids (my other two grandchildren James age almost...
Posted by Sharon Shores
I'd like to get your thoughts and ideas: I am doing a class on Social Media to a group of spiritual practitioners. Based on your observations, experiences, and intuitive insights---How can/ or how has social media contribute (d) to elevating human consciousness? Thanki...
Posted by Reverend Giovano 'Koala' Fusco
"This above All: to thine own self be true," - William Shakespeare(1564-1616) I believe each person has to be true to themselves; I think/believe that everyone needs to follow their own paths, I also believe that humans have done many things to this planet n the development to the human race so, I...
Posted by Dr. Jayne Baer
Do you know the answer to this riddle? *** The Key to Life and Death is everywhere to be found, but if you do not find it in your own house, you will find it nowhere. Yet, it is before everyone's eyes. No one can live without it. Everyone has used it. The poor usually possess it more than ...
Posted by Dr. Jayne Baer
“Accept responsibility for yourself and your actions, thoughts and words. You alone make choices. You alone are answerable to the consequences of your behavior. The feeble excuse that your boss required it, the establishment expected it, holds no truth or justification. What is the point of ha...
Posted by Lloyd Hargrove
Angels and Demons is a best selling novel by Dan Brown which served as the basis for a popular movie starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard. The story exposes to the general public some cutting edge science as well as a great deal of religious and, depending upon the viewer, p...
Posted by jennifer daubert
hi im a new minister and i need to know about califonia rules and laws. can you help me out? if you can please email me. thanks jennifer
Posted by Tony Villari
Iran would like to assist in the nuclear destruction of the world for the greater glory of Allah. Okay, so we have proof that morons can actually rise to power in the third world. No mystery here. It might be relevant to point out to these geniuses that nuclear fallout over Israel ...
Posted by Kenny Sallee
My best friend's wife recently passed away. He came to me and asked me if I would lead a memorial service for her. I'm not a church minister... I'm a boat driver, a ship's captain. But as a ship's captain, I'm expected to be at the helm and know what to do during periods of rough water. My friend ...
Posted by Pastor Paul C. Wentzlaff
Dear Friends, Today my life is filled with joy! We are thankful to God for HIS Grace. HIS Love is abundant and filled with tender mercy. May your lives be filled with Abundant Joy. Peace, Rev. Paul C. Wentzlaff
Posted by Dr. Jayne Baer
Someone recently made the statement that "forgiveness is the hardest thing anyone has to do." Is it really? I don't think it is, because forgiveness is a two-way street. It STARTS with the offending person saying the three hardest words in the English language: "I WAS WRONG." Wit...
Posted by Tony Villari
Back when I was growing up, mom would always advise that, when in doubt, always use good common sense. That was truly sage advice, especially because everyone knew what common sense was... I mean, it was common. No one uses common sense anymore and, according to Volta...
Posted by Lloyd Hargrove
Is Star Wars a religious flick? This now classic sci-fi thriller series is a classic example that one should never underestimate any source of spiritual perceptions. Spirituality as depicted in those movies presents the endless battle between the forces of "light" and "dark" which has long been ...
Posted by Pastor, David Elliott
I see the bible being quoted a lot, but do we actually understand what we are reading? Are we getting the correct understanding? I think the biggest misconception that I have ever seen is Mathew c 7:v 1. Judge not, that ye be not judged. Upon reading this we all have thought the same thoughts,...
Posted by Lloyd Hargrove
The Trinity of God is a concept which many feel is difficult to grasp, however it may be helpful to start with something closer to home, that being ourselves. Created in the Trinity Image of God Have a great day! Lloyd
Posted by Philip Shin
When we are proud of our mission, then it is wrong as it is the kind of money and fame. As the second, sacrifice our body to care and help the poor people is also wrong as we are too rude. We shoud breakdown our heart until we broke our mind and the faith so we are not the own one thing...
Posted by Reverend Giovano 'Koala' Fusco
A vision I had shortly after my serious stroke... After my stroke I a woke with a strong love of Jesus n a vision I have been wanting to share with others but doubted others would believe me or the vision; it is time for me to write it down n share with people... ...
Posted by Pastor, David Elliott
I have only been here a few months, but in that time I have been impressed and saddened. Isee most people here trying very hard to be good people, good ministers and making friends. I also see people that are here for other reasons. It doesn't matter what faith you represent. I use the word r...
Posted by Catharina Hosseini Damabi
Dear Brothers and Sisters, I joined ULCM because it is an interfaith platform. I understand that this platform and church is mend to bridge different beliefs and to respect each other. Looking on discussions about gay, muslim, pagans, christians and so on I get annoyed and very sad. I am ask...
Posted by Tony Villari
If you have a trusted friend with a doctorate in aeronautics, yet has never flown a plane, would you let him fly your family? All the higher education in the world is no substitute for the lowly "school of hard knocks." There is nothing like the voice of experience, especially ...
Posted by Rev. Johnathon Smith
I recently attended two different churches. I will not say which they were ore what denominations. The first church was small. The pastor was wearing a Hawaiian shirt and talking a little about beans and cornbread. That really got my attention. The church was only about a third full and people...
Posted by Tony Villari
With everything going on in the world today that is of so much more importance than the trivial bullshit involved in the circus we visit upon ourselves, maybe we should all recognize, early on, there is nothing entertaining here and learn to leave the "big top" when we see the monkey has set t...
Posted by Reverend Giovano 'Koala' Fusco
I know most of us have heard/seen the news about Bruce Jenner now known as Caitlyn Jenner that he has being a woman now, I am unsure if she completed the transformation to being 90%+/- well being older than myself she is really past the time of baring a child so the 10%-/+ really doesn't matter at...
Posted by Reverend Giovano 'Koala' Fusco
Hello to You All;I feel I have a strong faith in God, His Son - Jesus, n the Holy Ghost/Spirit n really love my faith in them...I believe that the Bible was once greatly inspired by God, Jesus n the Holy Ghost/Spirit but I believe that today's Bible has gone though too many translation till it got t...
Posted by Tony Villari
The body was crippled up, probably with ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease, he wasn't as bad as Stephen Hawking, but he was still young and I assumed time would not be his friend. He looked to be in his thirties; hard to tell with the body surrendering itself to physical ...
Posted by reginald boober
what happens in usa spreads like a virus and now pedafiles are claiming that pedafilia is a sexual preference others are attempting harem licenses. a father is married to his daughter and getting licensed its getting so out of control now.... people literally except anything and everything now and n...
Posted by reginald boober
Thank you, Lord, for the blessings you have bestowed on my life. You have provided me with more than I could ever have imagined. You have surrounded me with people who always look out for me. You have given me family and friends who bless me every day with kind words and actions. They lift me up in ...
Posted by reginald boober
A Forgiveness Prayer for When You Need God's Forgiveness Lord, please forgive me for what I have done to you. I offer up this forgiveness prayer in hopes that you will look at my mistakes and know that I did not mean to hurt you. I know you know I'm not perfect. I know that what I did ...
Posted by Pastor Paul C. Wentzlaff
Dear Friends, Today I wish to share a few thoughts on "passionate love". God has incredible "passionate love" for all of us. He sent his son, Jesus, to us to cleanse all the sin from us. This is the kind of love I would like each of us to reflect on and give thanks to God. ...
Posted by Tony Villari
It's not our battle! This is the battle cry of the future victims of atrocity. Innocence is being murdered in the world, and if you don't take a stand against it for the sake of the innocent, there will be no one left to take a stand when the monsters come for you. It truly co...
Posted by Lloyd Hargrove
Apparently Big Brother is everywhere. While keeping the peace across a broad cross-section of citizens and/or website members is paramount to maintaining some semblance of civil order, it seems that there would naturally be a somewhat fuzzy line as to what shall or shall not pass with regards ...
Posted by Lloyd Hargrove
Can one person make any difference in the whole scheme of things? Consider... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect If you studied the above link it details how a small event such as the single flap of a butterfly's wings can initiate a chain of events leading to a massive hurrican...
Posted by Jamie Eastling
As I continue to come to terms with the fact that I have indeed done what seemed to me like impossible–I graduated from college, I am faced with a new set of responsibilities. Not least of these means choosing for myself how I want to go about my life as a trans person. While in college I felt...
Posted by Rev. Anna Ruth Hollingsworth ULCM, ULC
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. -- Romans 7:15 NIV Boy, can I empathize with Paul on this! I can tell myself I don't need to do something and oops! there I go. Doing just that. Take chocolate. Please. I'm a self-avowed chocoho...
Posted by Rev. Anna Ruth Hollingsworth ULCM, ULC
Change is inevitable. Big or small, lasting or just for a short time, changes rules our lives. Change can lead us to panic, acceptance, or joy. Many changes are seen as a threat to the self. We are, for the most part, resistant to change; it can turn our worldview upside down. The death of ...
Posted by Tony Villari
What did we do in the cold war? We were the deterrent. We held back the apocalypse through a threat of total nuclear annihilation and, thank God, we never had to prove our resolve. If you are reading this, you still exist. You still exist because of people like these folks th...
Posted by Lloyd Hargrove
we servants of a nameless kind are summoned out to seek and find (with maybe some telepathy) all spoilers of the human youth and garblers of the sacred truth deceivers, liers, self-fulfilled if left to us we'd have you grilled (and that for an eternity) on endless...
Posted by Lloyd Hargrove
The Universe continues to amaze and entertain us if we but pay attention. Feed the wonder of your inner child continuously. The Bracken Bridge - Venus Transit
Posted by Tony Villari
A person's destiny lies somewhere up ahead, but their ultimate fate is in the hands of God. As the Brazilian novelist, Paulo Coelho, states it, "I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe ...
Posted by Emuel Lomg
Part 1. HONOR. Isiah 43;20-21. The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. Revelations 5;13-...
Posted by Lloyd Hargrove
Part I. The Science Lesson:Like a scroll unrolling in both directions, the Earth's basalt crust spreads away from the Mid-ocean ridges while faithfully recording within the rock mirror images of the historic reversals of the Earth's magnetic poles. Seafloor spreading &nb...
Posted by Rev. Anna Ruth Hollingsworth ULCM, ULC
...faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. -- James 2:17 NIV I preached that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds. -- Acts 26:20 NIV I read once that Martin Luther wanted to omit James from the Protestant Bible because it ...
Posted by Tony Villari
We tend to forget that everybody has the right to live, work, and worship, or not, in peace. And, for some reason, we find it necessary to try and force our beliefs on each other. Our ego seems to get in the way of our good sense to the point where religious icons are removed from public...
Posted by Rev. Anna Ruth Hollingsworth ULCM, ULC
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. -- Hebrews 13:8 NIV He was the Word, before creation. He was the Son of man, the Son of GOD, while He was on earth. He, the Son, sits at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory, Judge and King of an everlasting realm. He i...
Posted by Tony Villari
Bad things that happen to us, things we find difficult to deal with, so difficult that we tend to pack them away, like the leftovers of a less than palatable turkey at Thanksgiving. It would be nice if we could just forget about it, throw it out, but we invested a bit of time, money and effort...
Posted by Reverend Giovano 'Koala' Fusco
Hello All, Hope Everyone is doing well/better, HUGs!!!I am doing my status update today from my reverend page n here is why:I wanted to write something special today but had no inspirations, I thought I wanted to write something that wasn't about love or gays/lesbians n make it clear I am not pro-ga...
Posted by Pastor Joshua Freeman
I believe that Aristotle would declare me correct though I'm refuted by my Philosophy Proffessor that The Soul is the means of life and that Everyy living being has a Soul and that the argument for The Soul is the devine and correct argument to say that we should all live spiritually and that the Vi...
Posted by Rev. Lotus Cirilo
I bless the night that nourished my heart To set the ghosts of longing free Into the flow and figure of dream That went to harvest from the dark Bread for the hunger no one sees. All that is eternal in me Welcome the wonder of this day, The field of brightness it creates Offering t...
Posted by Tony Villari
Like Adam in the garden, life is full of choices. The apples are put before us and the rules are simple - don't eat of the forbidden fruit. Unfortunately we are human and, as smart as many of us may think we are, we aren't. The rich and powerful, the haves and have mores, the beaut...
Posted by Tony Villari
We see what we want to see, whether imagined or real. We humans tend to see with our hearts and then we shake off our initial reaction and jump into analysis. Angels, bleeding and crying religious icons, ghosts and flying saucers, all send our imaginations into overtime, for a moment. &n...
Posted by Pastor Joshua Freeman
I do not agree with slandering God, as a drunken God and althought I Love and respect Paganism, I don't belive in any anti-man or anti-women speech. We should all agree to disagree without vulgarity or unwholsome speech. I do agree however inappropriately it was put that man's law's are for men and ...
Posted by Dr. Jayne Baer
Luk 17:21 ”…the kingdom of God is within you.” The Bible teaches that God and heaven are not “out there.” Luke says “The kingdom of God cometh not with observation”; in other words, it is not a place--nothing that can be seen with the eye. He goes ...
Posted by Rev. Lotus Cirilo
I was my mother’s primary caregiver for the last eleven years of her life, by choice. I grew up hearing daddy say how one of these days it would be our turn (us kids) to take care of them, so when the day came that the mamabird could no longer be on her own, I simply thought, "It's my turn now...
Posted by Elder Sioux Chief, Gary Hare
populations were all gods, lovegods, mostly goddesses, scriptures were proven to be from the one Goddess, She made a man and loved him so finely he melted away into oblivion. all there are are goddesses... until they decided they needed men again and erupted them from sand. beaches grew along w...
Posted by Tony Villari
Ask and ye shall receive! Once again I went out to my readership for a topic and, once again, they have not failed to come through for me. Terry and Lori both have questions of which I, of course, have my own humble opinion. I'll tell you mine, if you'll tell me yours. To rea...
Posted by Rev. Lotus Cirilo
I grew up in a family of ministers, including my mother, and her parents before her. Seminary was not a requirement for the ministry, so I didn't think twice about getting my ordination papers from the Universal Life Church (although I also am otherwise degreed). That was long before the The Monaste...
Posted by Rev. Allon Keller
I've always felt that the 10 commandments, as laid out by the Christian God, were always a bit vague (Not gonna talk about the weird commandments that [a clearly drunk] God laid out, later in the christianic texts.) I mean, Thou shalt not kill/murder, and yet GOD is always telling people to kill/mur...
Posted by Pastor Richard ( Taz ) Pickett, OM, EM,
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Posted by Minister David Nedbalek
Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment for you; rather it is an old one you have had from the very beginning. This old commandment—to love one another—is the same message you heard before. (1 John 2:7 NLT) I believe that this commandment should be our goal or mission statement. ...
Posted by Emuel Lomg
" SHOUT, an evolutionary process. The goal is to be one message with its sister message a weekly religious message. The time is here the end is a new beginning one message.SHOUT " Rachel Dolezal, fresh off of stepping down as head of the Spokane NAACP chapter over criticism that she's portray...
Posted by Rev. Christopher J. Kady, R.M.A.
July 2, 2015 By His Grace, and to the Glory of God I’ve been meditating on the final decision of the Supreme Court on same-sex marriage. I think there are a lot of opinions flying around regarding the impact on religion. Naturally, as a spiritual man, I feel compe...