Homily: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday 2024.docxJames Knipper
Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
Renewed in Grace
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
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The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
2. First point is: In spiritualism we often hear people
preaching that you have to forget yourself in
memory of God.
Prima facie this appears to be a horrible idea of
complete amnesia or dementia.
The first reaction to such preaching is aversion
towards spiritualism. In fact if you are honest and
realistic, about genuine personal and social issues,
then you develop loathe and disgust about
spiritualism.
Those who preach this obviously do not seem to
have forgotten themselves or even their petty
interests, in memory of God.
Actually; forgetting yourself in memory of God
means; being able to get freed from the nagging and
harrowing shackles of individualistic or subjective
ideas and feelings. NAMASMARAN helps you to
gradually get freed from the harassing and
3. obsessive reminders of your own subjective ideas
and feelings.
Second point: In spiritualism it is often insisted to
the extent of coaxing that you have to give up
everything and renounce all the relationships and
excepting the one with God.
This also is obviously shocking and repulsive as it
induces hatred about all sublime and adorable
relationships.
What it actually means is; you acquire the capacity
to see every relationship more objectively in the
course of time; due to being focused on God i.e.
beyond petty self through the practice of
NAMASMARAN. As a result; your emotional
bonds in all relationships evolve and become
mature, subtler and refined.
It is important to understand that of subjective ideas
and feelings (memory of petty self) and subjective
perceptions about the relatives, friends etc
4. (relationships) should get evolved as a result and
NAMASMARAN.
Arbitrarily trying to “forget yourself” or “cut off
relations” can be harmful for a common person like
me.
One can think over and decide whether to practice
or not NAMSMARAN.
The third point: In spiritualism there is a
philosophical depiction of reality of different
philosophers with different perspectives.
This can be really very harsh on budding minds and
induce schizophrenic process in them.
For example when a boy sees the world and
comprehends it in a particular way, it is
counterproductive for the boy to assume that
contrary to his perception is correct and his
perception is wrong!
5. It is essential to understand that philosophy
provides answers to certain questions.
Understanding the answers can provide you 50
percent satisfaction and conviction.
In life it is always good to ask questions, seek
answers and verify the answers on the basis of one’s
experiences.
However the efforts one must take for one’s
evolution are called SADHANA.
In as much as it is wrong to try to forsake your
ideas, because some philosophy preaches it, it is
also wrong to condemns the answers provided by
the philosophy without practicing the SADHANA
with some patience; of course similar patience as is
required in any scientific experiment.
NAMASMARAN is a SADHANA.
