This fun book conveys key social justice teaching in Matthew 25 in an artful manner. The story contrasts Sheep's selfless love with Goat's selfishness. This cross-denominational book has been covered on Catholic TV; endorsed by CatholicMom.com blog; and shared by a Nazarene church in a community youth event. For Catholics, it's important to know that this book has received an Imprimatur. This book has been used in Sunday School/Children's Liturgy, in Vacation Bible School, in Elementary School library reading, and as a family faith-building experience.
The Sheep and the Goats | A Sermon for Lent from Matthew 25:31-46Steve Thomason
The document discusses Jesus criticizing religious leaders called scribes and Pharisees for hypocrisy and focusing on superficial religious rules instead of justice, mercy, and faith. It references two passages from the book of Matthew where Jesus says these leaders lock people out of heaven's kingdom and neglect weightier matters of the law like justice and mercy while precisely following minor religious obligations. The document also contains confusing parables and illustrations about getting into heaven and treating others as Jesus.
This document analyzes the parable of the sheep and goats in Matthew 25:31-46. It discusses reading, understanding, and learning from the parable. The key points are:
1) Hell is real and is a state of eternal separation from God and punishment.
2) Heaven is real and is the eternal kingdom prepared for believers.
3) The parable separates people into sheep, who did good works without understanding, and goats, who did not help others and will face eternal punishment.
This document discusses the compatibility between Christianity and social work. It notes that Christianity has historically led efforts to address social issues like infanticide, slavery, and child labor by founding hospitals, schools, and other social services. The document argues that social work values align with biblical values like serving others, promoting social justice and human dignity. It asserts that Christians are called by Jesus to help the poor and marginalized in his name through social work. Christians should not view social work and their faith as a choice but rather see social work as living out their faith in the real world. The document provides guidance for integrating faith in a way that respects clients' autonomy while allowing Christians to publicly take political stands aligned with scripture.
The passage from Matthew 25:31-46 describes Jesus telling a parable about God separating people into sheep and goats on Judgment Day. The sheep are those who cared for "the least of these brothers and sisters" by feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, welcoming the stranger, clothing the naked, caring for the sick, and visiting the imprisoned. The goats are those who did not provide such care. Jesus says that by caring for others in need, one cares for Jesus himself. The sheep will inherit the kingdom, while the goats face eternal punishment.
Message: Live life with the end in mind, July 12 2015arobinso
This document from Amos Robinson Ministries discusses different judgments that will occur, including the judgment of believers works and sins, the judgment of nations and angels, and the great white throne judgment of those not found in the book of life. It teaches that believers will give an account for their doctrines, conduct, words, and things affecting others, themselves, and God at the judgment seat of Christ, and that believers can avoid judgment by self-examination in the present.
Matthew 25, The Judgment Of The Gentiles, Anyone, at all times, should be re...Valley Bible Fellowship
Matthew 25, The Judgment Of The Gentiles, Anyone, at all times, should be ready to meet Jesus Christ!, The Kingdom Of Heaven Will Be, I Do Not Know You, Kingdom Of God Was Taken Away, Sheep and Goat Judgment, All The Gentiles Will Be Gathered Before Him, Eternal Punishment, "Run" For Christ, Drowsy, Ability, taken away, ethnos Gentiles, works salvation, Press On
A food ordering app that provides nutrition support and incentives can help address several goals from the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. Specifically, it can help improve food access and affordability, integrate nutrition and health, empower consumers to make healthy choices, support physical activity, and enhance nutrition research. The app would allow users to order healthy foods from various venues and provide nutrition information, rewards for healthy orders, and tools to track health progress. This could help reduce health disparities and diet-related diseases while supporting federal nutrition programs and research efforts.
Supporting Strategies From The White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, a...Tim Maurer
A food ordering app that integrates nutrition support and behavioral incentives can help address issues of food security, nutrition, diet-related disease, and health equity by supporting the 5 pillars of the Administration's health strategy. It can improve access to healthy foods, integrate nutrition into healthcare, empower consumers to make healthy choices, support physical activity, and enhance nutrition research. By enabling online/mobile ordering and loyalty programs, providing nutrition data, and using rewards/incentives tied to healthy foods, the app can specifically help drive traffic to healthy food retailers and venues. It also aims to address racial disparities in health outcomes by leveraging the app and evidence-based nutrition initiatives within healthcare through integration with electronic health records and incentives programs like SN
The Sheep and the Goats | A Sermon for Lent from Matthew 25:31-46Steve Thomason
The document discusses Jesus criticizing religious leaders called scribes and Pharisees for hypocrisy and focusing on superficial religious rules instead of justice, mercy, and faith. It references two passages from the book of Matthew where Jesus says these leaders lock people out of heaven's kingdom and neglect weightier matters of the law like justice and mercy while precisely following minor religious obligations. The document also contains confusing parables and illustrations about getting into heaven and treating others as Jesus.
This document analyzes the parable of the sheep and goats in Matthew 25:31-46. It discusses reading, understanding, and learning from the parable. The key points are:
1) Hell is real and is a state of eternal separation from God and punishment.
2) Heaven is real and is the eternal kingdom prepared for believers.
3) The parable separates people into sheep, who did good works without understanding, and goats, who did not help others and will face eternal punishment.
This document discusses the compatibility between Christianity and social work. It notes that Christianity has historically led efforts to address social issues like infanticide, slavery, and child labor by founding hospitals, schools, and other social services. The document argues that social work values align with biblical values like serving others, promoting social justice and human dignity. It asserts that Christians are called by Jesus to help the poor and marginalized in his name through social work. Christians should not view social work and their faith as a choice but rather see social work as living out their faith in the real world. The document provides guidance for integrating faith in a way that respects clients' autonomy while allowing Christians to publicly take political stands aligned with scripture.
The passage from Matthew 25:31-46 describes Jesus telling a parable about God separating people into sheep and goats on Judgment Day. The sheep are those who cared for "the least of these brothers and sisters" by feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, welcoming the stranger, clothing the naked, caring for the sick, and visiting the imprisoned. The goats are those who did not provide such care. Jesus says that by caring for others in need, one cares for Jesus himself. The sheep will inherit the kingdom, while the goats face eternal punishment.
Message: Live life with the end in mind, July 12 2015arobinso
This document from Amos Robinson Ministries discusses different judgments that will occur, including the judgment of believers works and sins, the judgment of nations and angels, and the great white throne judgment of those not found in the book of life. It teaches that believers will give an account for their doctrines, conduct, words, and things affecting others, themselves, and God at the judgment seat of Christ, and that believers can avoid judgment by self-examination in the present.
Matthew 25, The Judgment Of The Gentiles, Anyone, at all times, should be re...Valley Bible Fellowship
Matthew 25, The Judgment Of The Gentiles, Anyone, at all times, should be ready to meet Jesus Christ!, The Kingdom Of Heaven Will Be, I Do Not Know You, Kingdom Of God Was Taken Away, Sheep and Goat Judgment, All The Gentiles Will Be Gathered Before Him, Eternal Punishment, "Run" For Christ, Drowsy, Ability, taken away, ethnos Gentiles, works salvation, Press On
A food ordering app that provides nutrition support and incentives can help address several goals from the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. Specifically, it can help improve food access and affordability, integrate nutrition and health, empower consumers to make healthy choices, support physical activity, and enhance nutrition research. The app would allow users to order healthy foods from various venues and provide nutrition information, rewards for healthy orders, and tools to track health progress. This could help reduce health disparities and diet-related diseases while supporting federal nutrition programs and research efforts.
Supporting Strategies From The White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, a...Tim Maurer
A food ordering app that integrates nutrition support and behavioral incentives can help address issues of food security, nutrition, diet-related disease, and health equity by supporting the 5 pillars of the Administration's health strategy. It can improve access to healthy foods, integrate nutrition into healthcare, empower consumers to make healthy choices, support physical activity, and enhance nutrition research. By enabling online/mobile ordering and loyalty programs, providing nutrition data, and using rewards/incentives tied to healthy foods, the app can specifically help drive traffic to healthy food retailers and venues. It also aims to address racial disparities in health outcomes by leveraging the app and evidence-based nutrition initiatives within healthcare through integration with electronic health records and incentives programs like SN
Supporting Strategies From The White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, a...Tim Maurer
A food ordering app that provides nutrition information and incentives can help address several goals from the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. Specifically, it can help improve food access and affordability, integrate nutrition and health, empower consumers to make healthy choices, support physical activity, and enhance nutrition research. The app would allow users to order healthy foods from various venues and provide rewards for ordering healthier options. It could also track users' nutrition habits and health metrics over time. The app is designed to address nutrition insecurity, diet-related diseases, and health disparities, in line with federal strategies and research advocating a Mediterranean-style diet for its benefits.
Food Ordering and Nutrition App To Addresses Health, Disparities, Costs and M...Tim Maurer
A food ordering app that incorporates nutrition support and behavior incentives can help address issues of food security, nutrition, diet-related disease, and health equity by supporting the 5 pillars of the Administration's health strategy. It would do this by enabling healthy food access and driving traffic to participating food vendors, providing nutrition data to help with healthier buying, and using rewards/incentives tied to healthy foods. Tracking cumulative nutrition and health stats could also help impact outcomes and reduce racial disparities that were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Implementing incentives modeled after a successful SNAP pilot has potential for significant cost savings and prevention of chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease.
Food Ordering App and Mediterranean Harvest For Life Addresses Health, Dispar...Tim Maurer
A food ordering app that incorporates nutrition support and incentives for healthy eating can help address federal nutrition programs and health issues. The app would allow online and mobile food ordering while displaying nutrition information and encouraging healthier choices through rewards. It could also integrate with existing POS systems, healthcare IT, and government assistance programs to track outcomes and incentivize reduced chronic disease rates and healthcare costs over time.
GIFT Spiritual Transformation Path -- The Parable of the Sower -- 2022.pdfTim Maurer
This document discusses the Parable of the Sower from the Bible using farming as an analogy. Jesus explains that seeds represent God's word being planted in people's hearts, and the different soils represent different heart conditions. The document examines four heart conditions - shallow, rocky, thorny, and rich/fruitful soil - that affect whether the seeds will produce fruit. It provides insights on ensuring one's heart and mind are properly conditioned to receive God's word and Jesus' example in order to bear spiritual fruit in life.
The Global Institute For Transformation (GIFT) aims to transform the world in the light of Christ by supporting Christian unity, creating new venues for outreach and discipleship, and addressing both spiritual and material needs domestically and globally. GIFT plans to do this through initiatives like curriculum building appreciation for God, health programs, fundraising innovations, and providing spiritual and community resources. The document outlines GIFT's vision and various programs and initiatives to accomplish its mission.
India smart farming of ofsp for food, bioplastics, biofuel, shf income, econo...Tim Maurer
Cross-cutting India project to address smallholder farmer incomes, malnutrition and starvation, bioplastics and biofuels -- and begin to create a value chain and economic ecosystem.
Gift support for a unified christian community and witness - and resources f...Tim Maurer
Global Institute For Transformation (GIFT) seeks to unite Christians of all denominations and transform lives through spiritual and material support. GIFT provides resources like Scripture artwork, children's books, and innovations to address needs like clean water and nutrition. GIFT's mission is to help people receive, appreciate, and share God's gifts in order to transform hearts, lives, and communities.
Mediterranean-style eating can provide significant health benefits and reduce chronic disease according to extensive research. It can help prevent and manage diabetes, improve heart health by reducing risk of heart attacks and strokes, lower cancer risk, improve brain health, support weight loss and fertility, increase lifespan, lower blood pressure, and reduce environmental impacts like methane emissions. Adopting Mediterranean-style eating is recommended as a health policy approach to help address widespread chronic illness issues.
This document provides an overview of research on the health benefits of following a Mediterranean diet. It summarizes research showing that a Mediterranean diet can reduce the risk of chronic diseases like heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer's; promote weight loss and cognitive function; increase life expectancy; and benefit pregnancy outcomes and the environment. The Mediterranean diet emphasizes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts, olive oil, fish, and poultry while limiting red meat and dairy foods.
The article discusses how data and new technologies are enabling innovation like never before. It outlines several key points:
1) The amount of digital data from various sources is massively increasing, including data from IT systems, research databases, patent filings, and new sources like social media and the Internet of Things.
2) Collaboration platforms and crowd-sourcing tools can help organizations assess, prioritize, fund, and realize innovation opportunities by pulling insights from various participants.
3) A wide range of data sources must be harnessed for insights, including repositories, exchanges, unstructured data, social media, sensor data, and more. Both looking back longitudinally and forward visioning with rapid prototyping
Jesus advised us how to live in order to produce fruit through the Parable of the Sower. GIFT's Spiritual Transformation Path provides a Bible Study to help us achieve the fruitful harvest that Jesus desires for us
The document is a spiritual transformation guide that outlines different phases of spiritual growth. It begins with being unaware of Christ and his love, then having accepted Christ but not fully experiencing his hope, peace and joy. The next phase is knowing and appreciating God's love while being hopeful and led by the Spirit. The final phase described is having one's life transformed by God's love, following Christ, being led by the Holy Spirit, devoted to worship, and seeking to transform the world through Christ's love.
The document is a collection of Bible verses that discuss glowing or shining with godliness, love, obedience, and witness. The opening verse from 2 Corinthians talks about God making his light glow in our hearts to give us knowledge of his glory. The other verses encourage living as children of light by pursuing righteousness, faith, love and contentment, and shining one's light through good works like helping the hungry. They discuss not belonging to darkness and instead being guided by faith and love as children of day.
Celebrate our creator curriculum booklet w. curriculum 2018Tim Maurer
This document introduces a curriculum called "Celebrate Our Creator" intended for use in faith formation and environmental activities. It aims to restore the foundational truth that God created the world and assert the wonder of creation. The curriculum is meant to counter the increasing beliefs that the world evolved without a Creator and that humans have no divine purpose. It encourages appreciating God as the awesome Creator, caring for creation, and living with compassion as examples of how to honor the Creator. The curriculum teaches that everything is a gift from God, including life, the world, and each person as God's children, and suggests practicing gift exchanges to learn about and love one another.
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Tracking "The Blessing" - Christianity · Spiritual Growth · Success
Do you ever feel like your Bible highlighting isn't quite enough to ignite lasting spiritual growth? Have you struggled to retain key takeaways from your Bible study sessions?
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In this video, you'll gain insights on:
How highlighting key verses and themes can enhance memory and retention of Scripture (we see a few key ones, here!)
Studies have shown that highlighting can significantly improve information recall. Highlighting key points visually reinforces them in your mind, leading to better long-term memory.
How to personalize your Bible study through strategic highlighting. Don't just highlight everything!
This video will teach you how to strategically highlight based on what resonates with you, focusing on central themes, recurring ideas, or connections between different passages.
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How connecting highlighted passages can reveal deeper biblical truths. By highlighting these connections, you can see the bigger picture and uncover the underlying messages within Scripture.
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chakra yoga
Number of petals: 4 Location: Base of the spine Name: Foundation
Plane: Physical plane Sense Organ: Nose Work Organ: Anus Sense: Smell Element: Earth Shape: Square Sound: Lang
Muladhara is the root centre of physical experience, located at the base of the spine, the sacral plexus. The square represents the earth itself, the four dimensions and the four directions. Four allows for completion, and earth embodies the elements and conditions for human completion on all levels.
Muladhara Chakra is the meeting place of the three main nadis: Ida, Pingala and Sushumna. The downward-pointing triangle indicates the downward movement of energy and the three main nadis.
The seed mantra is Lam, the yellow square represents the earth element. The Muladhara chakra governs the vital breath Apana. An inverted triangle in the centre of the square encloses the unmanifest Kundalini, represented as a snake wrapped in three and a half coils around the svayambhu (self born) linga. Because her mouth faces downward, the flow of energy is downward.
The opening at the entrance of the sushumna is called brahma-dvara, the door of Brahma, which is closed by the coils of the sleeping Kundalini. As soon as one begins working with Muladhara chakra, this dormant energy awakens, raises its head and flows freely into the channel of Sushumna, the central nerve canal that runs along the spine. These two aspects of the kundalini: sleeping and waking, are identified as her “poison” and her “nectar.” The kundalini is poison when she remains asleep in the lower abdomen; she is nectar when she rises up through Sushumna, the medial channel, to reunite with Siva, the Absolute, in the yogin’s cranial vault.
In the pericarp is found the presiding deity Brahma, the lord of creation. His skin is the color of wheat, he wears a yellow dhoti and a green scarf. Brahma is four-faced, four-armed, holding in his upper left hand a lotus flower, the symbol of purity.
Astronism, Cosmism and Cosmodeism: the space religions espousing the doctrine...Cometan
This lecture created by Brandon Taylorian (aka Cometan) specially for the CESNUR Conference held Bordeaux in June 2024 provides a brief introduction to the legacy of religious and philosophical thought that Astronism emerges from, namely the discourse on transcension started assuredly by the Cosmists in Russia in the mid-to-late nineteenth century and then carried on and developed by Mordecai Nessyahu in Cosmodeism in the twentieth century. Cometan also then provides some detail on his story in founding Astronism in the early twenty-first century from 2013 along with details on the central Astronist doctrine of transcension. Finally, the lecture concludes with some contributions made by space religions and space philosophy and their influences on various cultural facets in art, literature and film.
The Power of Actions Slideshow by: Kal-elKal-el Shows
This message, “The Power of Actions”, emphasizes just how powerful moving actions are and gives us strong actions of advice as to how we use to do with actions.
ACTIONS is EVERYTHING! They bless or they curse, lift up or known down,
embrace it or unbrace it!
PHASE-IV
The very deep experience of silence helps to expand from the 3 - dimensional awareness of the body to all pervasive awareness. The bed of silence becomes deeper and more expansive - an ocean of silence with waves on it merge into complete silence called Ajapa state of the mind. This silence is the source of Creativity, Power, Knowledge and Bliss.
PHASE V
From this deep ocean of silence in the heart region, let one OM emerge as an audible sound which diffuses into the entire body and the space all around. Enjoy the beautiful vibrations.
Blink the eyes slowly, gently open the eyes and come out of meditation.
Supporting Strategies From The White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, a...Tim Maurer
A food ordering app that provides nutrition information and incentives can help address several goals from the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. Specifically, it can help improve food access and affordability, integrate nutrition and health, empower consumers to make healthy choices, support physical activity, and enhance nutrition research. The app would allow users to order healthy foods from various venues and provide rewards for ordering healthier options. It could also track users' nutrition habits and health metrics over time. The app is designed to address nutrition insecurity, diet-related diseases, and health disparities, in line with federal strategies and research advocating a Mediterranean-style diet for its benefits.
Food Ordering and Nutrition App To Addresses Health, Disparities, Costs and M...Tim Maurer
A food ordering app that incorporates nutrition support and behavior incentives can help address issues of food security, nutrition, diet-related disease, and health equity by supporting the 5 pillars of the Administration's health strategy. It would do this by enabling healthy food access and driving traffic to participating food vendors, providing nutrition data to help with healthier buying, and using rewards/incentives tied to healthy foods. Tracking cumulative nutrition and health stats could also help impact outcomes and reduce racial disparities that were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Implementing incentives modeled after a successful SNAP pilot has potential for significant cost savings and prevention of chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease.
Food Ordering App and Mediterranean Harvest For Life Addresses Health, Dispar...Tim Maurer
A food ordering app that incorporates nutrition support and incentives for healthy eating can help address federal nutrition programs and health issues. The app would allow online and mobile food ordering while displaying nutrition information and encouraging healthier choices through rewards. It could also integrate with existing POS systems, healthcare IT, and government assistance programs to track outcomes and incentivize reduced chronic disease rates and healthcare costs over time.
GIFT Spiritual Transformation Path -- The Parable of the Sower -- 2022.pdfTim Maurer
This document discusses the Parable of the Sower from the Bible using farming as an analogy. Jesus explains that seeds represent God's word being planted in people's hearts, and the different soils represent different heart conditions. The document examines four heart conditions - shallow, rocky, thorny, and rich/fruitful soil - that affect whether the seeds will produce fruit. It provides insights on ensuring one's heart and mind are properly conditioned to receive God's word and Jesus' example in order to bear spiritual fruit in life.
The Global Institute For Transformation (GIFT) aims to transform the world in the light of Christ by supporting Christian unity, creating new venues for outreach and discipleship, and addressing both spiritual and material needs domestically and globally. GIFT plans to do this through initiatives like curriculum building appreciation for God, health programs, fundraising innovations, and providing spiritual and community resources. The document outlines GIFT's vision and various programs and initiatives to accomplish its mission.
India smart farming of ofsp for food, bioplastics, biofuel, shf income, econo...Tim Maurer
Cross-cutting India project to address smallholder farmer incomes, malnutrition and starvation, bioplastics and biofuels -- and begin to create a value chain and economic ecosystem.
Gift support for a unified christian community and witness - and resources f...Tim Maurer
Global Institute For Transformation (GIFT) seeks to unite Christians of all denominations and transform lives through spiritual and material support. GIFT provides resources like Scripture artwork, children's books, and innovations to address needs like clean water and nutrition. GIFT's mission is to help people receive, appreciate, and share God's gifts in order to transform hearts, lives, and communities.
Mediterranean-style eating can provide significant health benefits and reduce chronic disease according to extensive research. It can help prevent and manage diabetes, improve heart health by reducing risk of heart attacks and strokes, lower cancer risk, improve brain health, support weight loss and fertility, increase lifespan, lower blood pressure, and reduce environmental impacts like methane emissions. Adopting Mediterranean-style eating is recommended as a health policy approach to help address widespread chronic illness issues.
This document provides an overview of research on the health benefits of following a Mediterranean diet. It summarizes research showing that a Mediterranean diet can reduce the risk of chronic diseases like heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer's; promote weight loss and cognitive function; increase life expectancy; and benefit pregnancy outcomes and the environment. The Mediterranean diet emphasizes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts, olive oil, fish, and poultry while limiting red meat and dairy foods.
The article discusses how data and new technologies are enabling innovation like never before. It outlines several key points:
1) The amount of digital data from various sources is massively increasing, including data from IT systems, research databases, patent filings, and new sources like social media and the Internet of Things.
2) Collaboration platforms and crowd-sourcing tools can help organizations assess, prioritize, fund, and realize innovation opportunities by pulling insights from various participants.
3) A wide range of data sources must be harnessed for insights, including repositories, exchanges, unstructured data, social media, sensor data, and more. Both looking back longitudinally and forward visioning with rapid prototyping
Jesus advised us how to live in order to produce fruit through the Parable of the Sower. GIFT's Spiritual Transformation Path provides a Bible Study to help us achieve the fruitful harvest that Jesus desires for us
The document is a spiritual transformation guide that outlines different phases of spiritual growth. It begins with being unaware of Christ and his love, then having accepted Christ but not fully experiencing his hope, peace and joy. The next phase is knowing and appreciating God's love while being hopeful and led by the Spirit. The final phase described is having one's life transformed by God's love, following Christ, being led by the Holy Spirit, devoted to worship, and seeking to transform the world through Christ's love.
The document is a collection of Bible verses that discuss glowing or shining with godliness, love, obedience, and witness. The opening verse from 2 Corinthians talks about God making his light glow in our hearts to give us knowledge of his glory. The other verses encourage living as children of light by pursuing righteousness, faith, love and contentment, and shining one's light through good works like helping the hungry. They discuss not belonging to darkness and instead being guided by faith and love as children of day.
Celebrate our creator curriculum booklet w. curriculum 2018Tim Maurer
This document introduces a curriculum called "Celebrate Our Creator" intended for use in faith formation and environmental activities. It aims to restore the foundational truth that God created the world and assert the wonder of creation. The curriculum is meant to counter the increasing beliefs that the world evolved without a Creator and that humans have no divine purpose. It encourages appreciating God as the awesome Creator, caring for creation, and living with compassion as examples of how to honor the Creator. The curriculum teaches that everything is a gift from God, including life, the world, and each person as God's children, and suggests practicing gift exchanges to learn about and love one another.
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Tracking "The Blessing" - Christianity · Spiritual Growth · Success
Do you ever feel like your Bible highlighting isn't quite enough to ignite lasting spiritual growth? Have you struggled to retain key takeaways from your Bible study sessions?
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In this video, you'll gain insights on:
How highlighting key verses and themes can enhance memory and retention of Scripture (we see a few key ones, here!)
Studies have shown that highlighting can significantly improve information recall. Highlighting key points visually reinforces them in your mind, leading to better long-term memory.
How to personalize your Bible study through strategic highlighting. Don't just highlight everything!
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How connecting highlighted passages can reveal deeper biblical truths. By highlighting these connections, you can see the bigger picture and uncover the underlying messages within Scripture.
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chakra yoga
Number of petals: 4 Location: Base of the spine Name: Foundation
Plane: Physical plane Sense Organ: Nose Work Organ: Anus Sense: Smell Element: Earth Shape: Square Sound: Lang
Muladhara is the root centre of physical experience, located at the base of the spine, the sacral plexus. The square represents the earth itself, the four dimensions and the four directions. Four allows for completion, and earth embodies the elements and conditions for human completion on all levels.
Muladhara Chakra is the meeting place of the three main nadis: Ida, Pingala and Sushumna. The downward-pointing triangle indicates the downward movement of energy and the three main nadis.
The seed mantra is Lam, the yellow square represents the earth element. The Muladhara chakra governs the vital breath Apana. An inverted triangle in the centre of the square encloses the unmanifest Kundalini, represented as a snake wrapped in three and a half coils around the svayambhu (self born) linga. Because her mouth faces downward, the flow of energy is downward.
The opening at the entrance of the sushumna is called brahma-dvara, the door of Brahma, which is closed by the coils of the sleeping Kundalini. As soon as one begins working with Muladhara chakra, this dormant energy awakens, raises its head and flows freely into the channel of Sushumna, the central nerve canal that runs along the spine. These two aspects of the kundalini: sleeping and waking, are identified as her “poison” and her “nectar.” The kundalini is poison when she remains asleep in the lower abdomen; she is nectar when she rises up through Sushumna, the medial channel, to reunite with Siva, the Absolute, in the yogin’s cranial vault.
In the pericarp is found the presiding deity Brahma, the lord of creation. His skin is the color of wheat, he wears a yellow dhoti and a green scarf. Brahma is four-faced, four-armed, holding in his upper left hand a lotus flower, the symbol of purity.
Astronism, Cosmism and Cosmodeism: the space religions espousing the doctrine...Cometan
This lecture created by Brandon Taylorian (aka Cometan) specially for the CESNUR Conference held Bordeaux in June 2024 provides a brief introduction to the legacy of religious and philosophical thought that Astronism emerges from, namely the discourse on transcension started assuredly by the Cosmists in Russia in the mid-to-late nineteenth century and then carried on and developed by Mordecai Nessyahu in Cosmodeism in the twentieth century. Cometan also then provides some detail on his story in founding Astronism in the early twenty-first century from 2013 along with details on the central Astronist doctrine of transcension. Finally, the lecture concludes with some contributions made by space religions and space philosophy and their influences on various cultural facets in art, literature and film.
The Power of Actions Slideshow by: Kal-elKal-el Shows
This message, “The Power of Actions”, emphasizes just how powerful moving actions are and gives us strong actions of advice as to how we use to do with actions.
ACTIONS is EVERYTHING! They bless or they curse, lift up or known down,
embrace it or unbrace it!
PHASE-IV
The very deep experience of silence helps to expand from the 3 - dimensional awareness of the body to all pervasive awareness. The bed of silence becomes deeper and more expansive - an ocean of silence with waves on it merge into complete silence called Ajapa state of the mind. This silence is the source of Creativity, Power, Knowledge and Bliss.
PHASE V
From this deep ocean of silence in the heart region, let one OM emerge as an audible sound which diffuses into the entire body and the space all around. Enjoy the beautiful vibrations.
Blink the eyes slowly, gently open the eyes and come out of meditation.
Introduction
Mantra Yoga is an exact science. "Mananat trayate iti mantrah- by the Manana (constant thinking or recollection) of which one is protected or is released from the round of births and deaths, is Mantra." That is called Mantra by the meditation (Manana) on which the Jiva or the individual soul attains freedom from sin, enjoyment in heaven and final liberation, and by the aid of which it attains in full the fourfold fruit (Chaturvarga), i.e., Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha. A Mantra is so called because it is achieved by the mental process.
Tales of This and Another Life - Chapters.pdfMashaL38
This book is one of the best of the translated ones, for it has a warning character for all those who find themselves in the experience of material life. Irmão X provides a shrewd way of describing the subtleties and weaknesses that can jeopardize our intentions, making us more attentive and vigilant by providing us with his wise pages, reminding us between the lines of the Master's words: "Pray and watch."
The Book of Revelation, filled with symbolic and apocalyptic imagery, presents one of its most striking visions in Revelation 9:3-12—the locust army. Understanding the significance of this locust army provides insight into the broader themes of divine judgment, protection, and the ultimate triumph of God’s will as depicted in Revelation.
God calls us to a journey of worshiping Him. In this journey you will encounter different obstacles and derailments that will want to sway you from worshiping God. You got to be intentional in breaking the barriers staged on your way of worship in order to offer God acceptable worship.
Lucid Dreaming: Understanding the Risks and Benefits
The ability to control one's dreams or for the dreamer to be aware that he or she is dreaming. This process, called lucid dreaming, has some potential risks as well as many fascinating benefits. However, many people are hesitant to try it initially for fear of the potential dangers. This article aims to clarify these concerns by exploring both the risks and benefits of lucid dreaming.
The Benefits of Lucid Dreaming
Lucid dreaming allows a person to take control of their dream world, helping them overcome their fears and eliminate nightmares. This technique is particularly useful for mental health. By taking control of their dreams, individuals can face challenging scenarios in a controlled environment, which can help reduce anxiety and increase self-confidence.
Addressing Common Concerns
Physical Harm in Dreams Lucid dreaming is fundamentally safe. In a lucid dream, everything is a creation of your mind. Therefore, nothing in the dream can physically harm you. Despite the vividness and realness of the dream experience, it remains entirely within your mental landscape, posing no physical danger.
Mental Health Risks Concerns about developing PTSD or other mental illnesses from lucid dreaming are unfounded. As soon as you wake up, it's clear that the events experienced in the dream were not real. On the contrary, lucid dreaming is often seen as a therapeutic tool for conditions like PTSD, as it allows individuals to reframe and manage their thoughts.
Potential Risks of Lucid Dreaming
While generally safe, lucid dreaming does come with a few risks as well:
Mixing Dream Memories with Reality Long-term lucid dreamers might occasionally confuse dream memories with real ones, creating false memories. This issue is rare and preventable by maintaining a dream journal and avoiding lucid dreaming about real-life people or places too frequently.
Escapism Using lucid dreaming to escape reality can be problematic if it interferes with your daily life. While it is sometimes beneficial to escape and relieve the stress of reality, relying on lucid dreaming for happiness can hinder personal growth and productivity.
Feeling Tired After Lucid Dreaming Some people report feeling tired after lucid dreaming. This tiredness is not due to the dreams themselves but often results from not getting enough sleep or using techniques that disrupt sleep patterns. Taking breaks and ensuring adequate sleep can prevent this.
Mental Exhaustion Lucid dreaming can be mentally taxing if practiced excessively without breaks. It’s important to balance lucid dreaming with regular sleep to avoid mental fatigue.
Lucid dreaming is safe and beneficial if done with caution. It has many benefits, such as overcoming fear and improving mental health, and minimal risks. There are many resources and tutorials available for those interested in trying it.
Lição 12: João 15 a 17 – O Espírito Santo e a Oração Sacerdotal | 2° Trimestr...OmarBarrezueta1
Esta lição é uma oportunidade para discutirmos um assunto multo mal interpretado no contexto cristão, que é o fato de algumas pessoas pensarem que o conhecer Jesus é ter a nossa vida mudada em todas as áreas, como se Deus tivesse o dever de transportar-nos deste mundo para um outro mundo onde muitas coisas maravilhosas que desejamos seriam reais. No entanto, a nossa fé não nos tira do mundo após nos convertermos; ao invés disso, permanecemos vivendo sob as mesmas circunstâncias. O propósito de Deus não é nos tirar do mundo, mas nos livrar das ações do maligno (Jo 17.15), Sendo assim, a vida eterna não significa estar fora da realidade deste mundo, mas conhecer o único Deus verdadeiro (Jo 17.3).
"Lift off" by Pastor Mark Behr at North Athens Baptist ChurchJurgenFinch
23 June 2024
Morning Service at North Athens Baptist Church Athens, Michigan
“Lift Off” by Pastor Mark Behr
Scriptures: Luke 24:50-53; Acts 1:6-11.
We are a small country Church in Athens Michigan who loves to reach out to others with the love of God. We worship an Awesome God who loves the whole world and wants everyone to see and understand what He has done for us. (1 Corinthians 15:1-4) We hope you are encouraging by our Sunday Morning sermon videos. If you are ever in the area, please feel free to attend our Sunday Morning Services at North Athens Baptist Church 2020 M Drive South, Athens, Michigan. If you have any question and would like to talk to Pastor Mark, or have prayer request please call the church at (269) 729-553
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Sheep and Goat were neighbors.
They both lived on the farm.
But they were very different.
Sheep was always thinking of others.
Goat seemed to always be thinking about himself.
Still, Sheep tried very hard to get along with Goat…
to show Goat some love… and to live like Jesus...
so Goat would want to get to know Jesus, too.
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One day, Sheep and Goat took a trip into the big city
to visit the Mega Ice Cream Parlor.
It was a trip they had planned for many weeks.
During that time, they had worked very hard
to earn money for their trip.
Finally, they boarded a train and began their long journey.
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During their train trip, they passed homes,
businesses, a river, some lakes and a big forest.
They even passed a farm where cows were
grazing on the grass.
The trip was so long, they had a lot of time to
talk and think.
Sheep also took time to read his Bible.
Along the way Sheep kept thinking about God’s awesome creation.
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Goat kept listening to his music and reading his comic book.
He was determined not to let one second of the trip escape him.
He would make sure he had fun every moment of the trip.
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If Goat was thinking about anything, it was the Mega Ice Cream Parlor.
The newspaper ad said the parlor served the biggest cones in the world.
It also had a video game arcade.
Goat just couldn’t wait to get there!
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Once Sheep and Goat arrived in the city, they had to make their way
out of the train… through the railroad station… and onto the city streets.
The city was much different than home.
So many people were rushing around.
Goat was in a rush, too.
Because he had to get to the ice
cream parlor real fast.
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But Sheep was more interested in the people around him. He saw an
older woman who was struggling to carry her bags.
Sheep offered to carry them for her.
At first, she refused Sheep’s help.
But Sheep picked up her bags
and took them to the taxi stand,
where she could get a ride to her home.
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By now, Goat had gone far ahead.
In all his hurrying, he nearly ran over
a young mom with a baby.
But he did get where he was going
well before Sheep.
He was finally at The Mega Ice Cream
Parlor they had read about in the
newspaper.
Because he had rushed so much,
he was now very hot and hungry.
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Sheep tried to catch up with Goat.
But he got distracted by a little girl who was so thin.
He didn’t want to stare, but she didn’t look too good.
Even after Sheep reached the ice cream parlor, he couldn’t
stop thinking about that girl.
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Inside the ice cream parlor, Goat had already ordered a huge, triple scoop black
raspberry waffle cone.
(Everyone knows goats can’t get enough of black raspberry.)
By now, Goat was hard at work licking that cone.
He was eating so fast.
It was as if he thought it would melt before he could finish it.
It was the biggest cone Sheep had ever seen.
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Now it was Sheep’s turn to order his cone. Sheep looked at the menu board.
He couldn’t decide between Cherry Jubilee or Monster Mash.
Suddenly, he thought about that little girl. He ordered
a Cherry Jubilee cone. A big one, too.
And as soon as he got his hands on that cone,
he rushed back outside to look for the girl.
He quickly found her and gave her his cone.
You should have seen the look on her face. She was so happy.
The girl began running toward the ice cream parlor. But then she turned
into the driveway that was between two big buildings.
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Sheep started back toward the ice cream parlor. He looked down the
driveway where the girl had gone.
He noticed she was now sitting next to two
other children. She was sharing her cone with her
brother and sister.
They all seemed so happy. The only thing was,
they were all so thin.
Behind the children stood two adults.
They must have been their parents. They were thin, too. And their clothes were
torn.
Sheep thought they were probably homeless people. He had learned about
homeless people in Sunday school. He figured they must have been hungry.
That’s why the little girl rushed to share her cone with her little brother and sister.
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Sheep continued past them until he got back to the ice cream parlor. By this time,
Goat was busy playing video games.
It cost $1.50 for each game. Goat had already played eight games.
And he was still at it.
Goat challenged Sheep to a match.
He boasted, “You’ll never beat me.
I’m an expert at this.”
(Sheep thought Goat should be an expert.
After all, he had played eight
games already.)
Sheep would have loved to have joined Goat for just one game.
But he was thinking about the hungry family.
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Then Sheep remembered there was a grocery store across the street from that
driveway between the two buildings.
He thanked Goat for the challenge. But he said he wanted to check out
the grocery store.
He knew he couldn’t stand around wasting quarters. Because there was a family
that probably hadn’t eaten in a while.
Even though Sheep loved video games, he knew he had to get the family
some food instead.
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Goat laughed at Sheep.
“You come all the way into the big city…
After all the time you waited…
And after all the work you did to save money
for this trip…
And now you want to go to the grocery store!”
said Goat.
“You’re nuts!”
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Sheep couldn’t tell Goat why. But he followed through on his plan.
He took the money he had saved
and went into the store.
He went down one aisle after another.
He got bread and milk.
He bought some peanut butter and jelly.
He picked out five of the biggest apples
he had ever seen.
And he got his favorite soda, “Blue Goo Canoe.”
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Sheep paid for all that he bought.
It cost $15.00.
It was just about all the money Sheep had
saved for his trip.
But Sheep felt happy.
He knew the young family needed the food
more than he needed to play arcade games.
Sheep went across the street and gave
the family the bag of groceries.
They were very happy.
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Sheep said, “good bye,” and went back to the ice cream parlor.
Goat had finished his 15th game by now.
He had also ordered another ice cream cone and had finished a big soda.
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Goat asked Sheep what he had been doing for so long.
Sheep said he was trying to be like Jesus.
Once again, Goat laughed at Sheep. “You didn’t waste
your whole day doing something for some stranger
did you?” he asked.
As they were leaving for home, Sheep explained, “Jesus said whenever we care
for someone who needs help, we care for Him. Whenever we feed someone, it’s
like we feed Jesus himself.”
Sheep told Goat that Goat should start thinking of others, too,
and not just about himself.
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After all, Sheep explained, “Jesus will come back some day looking to take
us to heaven with Him. When he does, he’s going to see if we loved Him.
And the way He’ll know if we really loved Him,
is if we loved others like He loves us.
Jesus loves us so much, He gave his life for us on
the cross. He did it to forgive our sins, so we
could live with Him someday.
If we accept Jesus, and the love He has for us --
and love Him with all our heart -- we can live
in heaven with Him forever.
Heaven will be even better than ice cream parlors and video games.
It’s a place that’s filled with streets of gold and nothing but JOY.”
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Sheep and Goat arrived home from their exciting trip. Sheep immediately went
to see his friend, PIG. He wanted to tell PIG everything about his trip.
PIG is a very good and Godly
friend to Sheep.
Sheep loves to study the Bible with PIG.
And PIG encourages Sheep to live more
like Jesus.
In fact, Sheep calls PIG his Partner In Godliness (PIG).
Sheep is always saying, “Everyone needs a PIG.”
Is there a PIG in your life? If not, maybe there should be!
Maybe you can be a PIG to someone, too.
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AND NOW, THE MORAL OF THE STORY:
The Bible says we can’t “conform” to be like everyone else. Instead we must
be “transformed” to live like Jesus. That’s where all the JOY is.
Which means: we need to be
more loving like Sheep, and
not selfish like Goat.
The idea for Sheep and Goat
is found in the Bible,
in the book of Matthew,
chapter 25, verses 31 - 46.
Matthew 25: 31 - 46
Don’t Conform. BeTransformed!
Discover Sheer Joy:
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Matthew 25: 31 - 46
Don’t Conform. Be Transformed!
Discover Sheer Joy: