The document provides instructions for a spiritual fast or cleansing. It instructs the reader to get a fresh journal to write down things attacking their mind, body, and spirit. They are to pray for people from their past and set clear boundaries. Scriptures are given to meditate on daily about righteousness, fleeing harmful influences, and moving forward. The reader is told to write down their internal fears, pray with an accountability partner about them, and burn the list at the end of the fast.
Bibliology and Hermeneutics (Session 6)Bong Baylon
The document discusses the concept of inspiration and how it relates to the creation of the Bible. It defines inspiration as God guiding the biblical writers and giving them his words while fully utilizing their human abilities. The document explores different theories of inspiration, from the Bible being entirely man-made to entirely divinely dictated. It argues that the correct view is that inspiration was a cooperative process between God and the human authors, resulting in text that is both fully divine and fully human.
This document discusses the rabbi-disciple relationship in 1st century Judaism and what it meant to be a disciple. Disciples willingly submitted to their rabbi's authority, viewing the rabbi as the interpreter of God's word. Disciples spent long periods studying, debating, and emulating their rabbi in an intimate community. They conformed their lives to their rabbi's interpretations of scripture. The document examines what aspects of this rabbi-disciple dynamic may still be relevant for Christian discipleship today.
This document provides teaching notes on exegesis from an ICCM School of Missions class. It begins with an exercise on Ezra 7:10 and discusses the importance of exegesis in properly understanding and teaching Scripture. The document outlines different types of biblical genres and gives guidelines for analyzing the context, form, content and function of a passage. It emphasizes avoiding eisegesis and being aware of cognitive biases. The document provides a workflow for exegesis using the acronym COFOCOFU to analyze context, form, content and function. It stresses asking questions, understanding genre and not reading things into the text. Overall, the document aims to equip students to do careful, unbiased exegesis in order to
The document discusses the mission and rights of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). It outlines his mission to recite the Quran, teach its lessons, and purify people. It states that Muslims have obligations to believe in him, honor him, help him in his mission, and follow the Quran. The document encourages setting aside time, money and forming teams to better know and follow the Prophet's example in order to help spread his message.
1. The document discusses the concept of "prophetic fishing", which refers to allowing the Holy Spirit to work through a person to change lives in any situation.
2. It emphasizes practicing and becoming aware of God's presence on a daily basis through repeatedly "breathing in" His freedom, love and security, and "breathing out" frustrations and fears.
3. When a person practices God's presence, they can take authority over situations and act in powerful ways as the Holy Spirit makes His power available, as Jesus promised His followers would do greater things than He did.
The document discusses restoration and moving forward from past wounds. It states that chapter 10 symbolizes restoration and resolving past issues through forgiveness. It addresses confessing wounds to be healed, and letters about sexuality, self-worth, and compassion. The text notes that everyone has a "Sodom and Gomorra" experience, and to trust God will protect and guide you to keep looking ahead to an exciting future rather than back.
The document discusses breaking cycles of sexual drama and making wise choices regarding relationships. It suggests that one's first sexual experience can influence later decisions and advises identifying patterns that keep people stuck. Additionally, it provides guidance for single women on avoiding romantic roles before marriage and encourages seeing oneself as victorious rather than a martyr by letting past events work for good.
The document discusses concepts of godly femininity. It explores biblical examples like Queen Vashti, Queen Esther, and characteristics like kindness, gentleness, sensitivity and nurturing qualities. It addresses avoiding bitterness and sexuality, and emphasizes focusing on character, wisdom and waiting on God. Masculine roles are discouraged in favor of allowing men to fulfill their purpose. Overall it provides guidance for women to understand their role and find value in femininity through biblical examples and teachings.
Bibliology and Hermeneutics (Session 6)Bong Baylon
The document discusses the concept of inspiration and how it relates to the creation of the Bible. It defines inspiration as God guiding the biblical writers and giving them his words while fully utilizing their human abilities. The document explores different theories of inspiration, from the Bible being entirely man-made to entirely divinely dictated. It argues that the correct view is that inspiration was a cooperative process between God and the human authors, resulting in text that is both fully divine and fully human.
This document discusses the rabbi-disciple relationship in 1st century Judaism and what it meant to be a disciple. Disciples willingly submitted to their rabbi's authority, viewing the rabbi as the interpreter of God's word. Disciples spent long periods studying, debating, and emulating their rabbi in an intimate community. They conformed their lives to their rabbi's interpretations of scripture. The document examines what aspects of this rabbi-disciple dynamic may still be relevant for Christian discipleship today.
This document provides teaching notes on exegesis from an ICCM School of Missions class. It begins with an exercise on Ezra 7:10 and discusses the importance of exegesis in properly understanding and teaching Scripture. The document outlines different types of biblical genres and gives guidelines for analyzing the context, form, content and function of a passage. It emphasizes avoiding eisegesis and being aware of cognitive biases. The document provides a workflow for exegesis using the acronym COFOCOFU to analyze context, form, content and function. It stresses asking questions, understanding genre and not reading things into the text. Overall, the document aims to equip students to do careful, unbiased exegesis in order to
The document discusses the mission and rights of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). It outlines his mission to recite the Quran, teach its lessons, and purify people. It states that Muslims have obligations to believe in him, honor him, help him in his mission, and follow the Quran. The document encourages setting aside time, money and forming teams to better know and follow the Prophet's example in order to help spread his message.
1. The document discusses the concept of "prophetic fishing", which refers to allowing the Holy Spirit to work through a person to change lives in any situation.
2. It emphasizes practicing and becoming aware of God's presence on a daily basis through repeatedly "breathing in" His freedom, love and security, and "breathing out" frustrations and fears.
3. When a person practices God's presence, they can take authority over situations and act in powerful ways as the Holy Spirit makes His power available, as Jesus promised His followers would do greater things than He did.
The document discusses restoration and moving forward from past wounds. It states that chapter 10 symbolizes restoration and resolving past issues through forgiveness. It addresses confessing wounds to be healed, and letters about sexuality, self-worth, and compassion. The text notes that everyone has a "Sodom and Gomorra" experience, and to trust God will protect and guide you to keep looking ahead to an exciting future rather than back.
The document discusses breaking cycles of sexual drama and making wise choices regarding relationships. It suggests that one's first sexual experience can influence later decisions and advises identifying patterns that keep people stuck. Additionally, it provides guidance for single women on avoiding romantic roles before marriage and encourages seeing oneself as victorious rather than a martyr by letting past events work for good.
The document discusses concepts of godly femininity. It explores biblical examples like Queen Vashti, Queen Esther, and characteristics like kindness, gentleness, sensitivity and nurturing qualities. It addresses avoiding bitterness and sexuality, and emphasizes focusing on character, wisdom and waiting on God. Masculine roles are discouraged in favor of allowing men to fulfill their purpose. Overall it provides guidance for women to understand their role and find value in femininity through biblical examples and teachings.
This document discusses triggers that can lead to unwanted sexual behavior and how to manage them. It covers sexual triggers, non-sexual environmental triggers like certain rooms or people, and non-sexual emotional triggers like a lack of self-differentiation. It emphasizes that sobriety must come before all else and provides strategies like avoiding triggers, being aware of their existence, and listing specific triggers and potential remedy actions to address them. The goal is to help people make real changes through sobriety rather than just white-knuckle changes by managing triggers that could undermine recovery efforts.
God created sex and views it as beautiful gift within marriage. The document discusses biblical passages about the marital duty of husbands and wives to fulfill each other's sexual needs. It notes how pornography tempts people away from finding sexual satisfaction only within marriage. The document advises couples to work at their sexual relationship and respect each other's needs, with men needing to feel wanted by their wives and women needing emotional support from their husbands. Differences between men and women are explored, along with using sex to bond spiritually within a marriage. The homework assignment is for couples to discuss their views on sex.
The document discusses creating a mission statement or "bullseye" for one's family. It provides the Wilson family mission statement as an example: "Train and launch L-3 warriors that will impact the world for Jesus Christ." It then explains the concepts of training children through discipline in the home and launching them into the world to impact it for Jesus Christ. It defines L-3 warriors as those who love God and others, lock arms in community, and live open-handedly with their time, talents and treasures. The document encourages parents to identify their personal and family mission statements.
This document outlines principles for grace-based parenting focused on building a family founded on Jesus Christ. It discusses building the family on the rock of Jesus by following his teachings. The goals are to train and launch children to impact the world for Christ. Ten commandments of parenting with grace are provided, such as making the parents' marriage a priority, teaching life skills daily, protecting children's souls, and building a spiritual college fund. It emphasizes giving children freedom and grace to make mistakes by sharing one's own mistakes honestly and giving oneself and children what they don't deserve.
This document discusses differences between men and women in their focus during sex. It notes that men are often more visual and experiential, while women place more importance on the relational and emotional aspects of sex. The document recommends that couples improve communication, spend quality non-sexual time together like date nights, and that women express their needs for touch, talk and emotional intimacy to their husbands while men express their needs to feel affirmed and pursued. The homework is for couples to discuss improving their relationships.
The document discusses resolving conflict in relationships. It identifies four approaches to conflict: wanting to win, yielding, withdrawing, and resolving. It emphasizes the importance of confronting issues in a loving way, dealing with anger constructively, and achieving forgiveness. Resolving conflict through open communication can strengthen relationships. The homework assignment asks readers to reflect on their personal conflict approach and identify an issue currently blocking their relationship.
This document discusses parenting toddlers and setting boundaries. The main points are:
- The goal or "bullseye" is to train children to impact the world for Jesus Christ through training and discipling.
- Parents must set clear boundaries for their children based on Ephesians 6:4 about bringing children up in the Lord's training and instruction.
- Setting and consistently enforcing boundaries, even when children challenge them, provides security for children and teaches them to obey God and their parents. boundaries must be set in a loving way so children understand.
The document discusses the "Ten Commandments of Rock Your Family" which includes getting home as commandment number five. It provides tips for getting home such as figuring out a way to be home, making your home a place kids want to be, being intentional, making memories with your family, evaluating outside commitments, taking vacations together, having food at home, not missing family time, and looking at your calendar to determine what non-essential activities to decline.
The document discusses how parents can build relationships with their teenagers. It advises that parents should engage with their teens by entering their world, pursuing them, and dating their daughters if they have one. Parents are also encouraged to get their teens to open up by listening without judging, critiquing, or complaining, in order to cultivate trust and build the relationship. The homework assignment is for parents to apologize to their teen and identify three ways to engage with and connect to their teenager.
The document discusses different styles of conflict resolution, types of anger including chronic anger, and the importance of forgiveness. It notes there are four styles of conflict: win, yield, withdraw, resolve. Chronic anger is usually situation-specific but displaced from another situation and tied to unresolved past issues or abuse. The document emphasizes that to deal with chronic anger, one must forgive, as forgiveness allows one to break free from chronic anger and sets the forgiver free from being a prisoner to their own anger.
The document discusses resolving conflict in relationships. It identifies four approaches to conflict: wanting to win, yielding, withdrawing, and resolving. It emphasizes the importance of confronting issues in a loving way, dealing with anger constructively, and achieving forgiveness. Resolving conflict through open communication can strengthen relationships. The homework assignment asks readers to reflect on their personal conflict approach and identify an issue currently blocking their relationship.
The document discusses how parents should model good behavior for their children, as children learn more from watching their parents' actions than from their words alone. It notes that children will emulate what their parents model and that parents are responsible for setting a good example in their own lives. The homework assignment asks parents to reflect on what behaviors they are currently modeling and identify three steps they can take to become better role models for their children.
The document discusses resolving conflict in relationships. It identifies four approaches to conflict: wanting to win, yielding, withdrawing, and resolving. It emphasizes the importance of confronting issues in a loving way, dealing with anger constructively, and achieving forgiveness. Resolving conflict through open communication can strengthen relationships. As homework, readers are asked to reflect on their personal conflict approach and identify an issue currently blocking their relationship.
The document discusses building a great marriage by being fully committed, building the marriage on the rock of Jesus Christ, and putting God first. It advises seeking God's kingdom above all else and trusting that he will take care of other needs, as well as starting the process of submitting one's marriage to God by getting on one's knees in prayer.
This document outlines the structure and objectives of a 15-part online program for addressing compulsive sexual behavior. The program includes 15 video teachings and corresponding workbook sections to be completed over 10-15 minutes each. Participants are encouraged to find a quiet space and pray before each session. The program aims to help participants understand addiction, make positive changes, learn what drives compulsive sexuality, and adopt new tools to live with purity, honor and pride. It includes a sexual addiction screening test and assigns viewing the first session and answering reflection questions honestly and with prayerful support.
This document discusses protecting children from pornography. It notes that pornography is widely accessible today and provides tips for parents on how to discuss it with their kids, such as preserving innocence as long as possible, explaining how God designed their bodies, using internet filters, and putting computers in common family areas. The goal is to protect children's souls from the negative effects of pornography.
The document discusses how to sketch the graph of functions of the form y = f(x). It notes that f(x) must be greater than or equal to 0 within its domain. The graph of y = f(x) can be drawn and critical points occur where f(x) = 0 or f'(x) = 0. The shape of the graph is determined by whether f(x) is greater than or less than 1.
This document discusses the EU Water Initiative and the European Commission's work on water issues. It provides context on the global water crisis, noting that over 1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water and over 2 billion lack basic sanitation. It outlines the policy framework that has developed to address these issues, including the EU Water Framework Directive and commitments made at international conferences. The document then discusses the principal instruments the EU uses in its international policies related to foreign affairs, trade, development, environmental and scientific cooperation that can impact water issues. It provides the EU's commitment to the goals of the Water Initiative through partnerships with other actors.
The document summarizes how XaitPorter can help teams collaborate more efficiently on proposals, tenders, and other large documents. It describes some of the challenges teams face when working on shared documents, such as inconsistent formatting, version control issues, and lack of oversight. It then outlines key features of XaitPorter that address these challenges, such as allowing real-time collaboration, automatic formatting, integrated review and approval workflows, and web-based access without installation. Customer testimonials are provided that highlight reduced timelines and increased win rates experienced when using XaitPorter.
The document discusses maintaining sexual purity and discusses topics like healing from past sexual experiences, understanding the purpose of sex, avoiding addictive sexual behaviors, navigating sexuality in media and relationships, and preparing oneself to have sex within the confines of a committed relationship as God intends. Key points are that sexuality involves mind, body and spirit, sex was designed for oneness between partners, and discipline is important to not lose one's sexuality but have it be part of a pure marriage relationship as God intends.
The document discusses various topics related to sexuality, relationships, and purity. It explores how sexuality involves the mind, body and spirit. Several chapters discuss sexual additives like oral sex and pornography, and how to maintain purity. The goal is to help those who have been harmed heal and those who remain virgins stay pure until marriage. Maintaining patience and forgiving oneself are important parts of the journey toward restoration.
This document discusses triggers that can lead to unwanted sexual behavior and how to manage them. It covers sexual triggers, non-sexual environmental triggers like certain rooms or people, and non-sexual emotional triggers like a lack of self-differentiation. It emphasizes that sobriety must come before all else and provides strategies like avoiding triggers, being aware of their existence, and listing specific triggers and potential remedy actions to address them. The goal is to help people make real changes through sobriety rather than just white-knuckle changes by managing triggers that could undermine recovery efforts.
God created sex and views it as beautiful gift within marriage. The document discusses biblical passages about the marital duty of husbands and wives to fulfill each other's sexual needs. It notes how pornography tempts people away from finding sexual satisfaction only within marriage. The document advises couples to work at their sexual relationship and respect each other's needs, with men needing to feel wanted by their wives and women needing emotional support from their husbands. Differences between men and women are explored, along with using sex to bond spiritually within a marriage. The homework assignment is for couples to discuss their views on sex.
The document discusses creating a mission statement or "bullseye" for one's family. It provides the Wilson family mission statement as an example: "Train and launch L-3 warriors that will impact the world for Jesus Christ." It then explains the concepts of training children through discipline in the home and launching them into the world to impact it for Jesus Christ. It defines L-3 warriors as those who love God and others, lock arms in community, and live open-handedly with their time, talents and treasures. The document encourages parents to identify their personal and family mission statements.
This document outlines principles for grace-based parenting focused on building a family founded on Jesus Christ. It discusses building the family on the rock of Jesus by following his teachings. The goals are to train and launch children to impact the world for Christ. Ten commandments of parenting with grace are provided, such as making the parents' marriage a priority, teaching life skills daily, protecting children's souls, and building a spiritual college fund. It emphasizes giving children freedom and grace to make mistakes by sharing one's own mistakes honestly and giving oneself and children what they don't deserve.
This document discusses differences between men and women in their focus during sex. It notes that men are often more visual and experiential, while women place more importance on the relational and emotional aspects of sex. The document recommends that couples improve communication, spend quality non-sexual time together like date nights, and that women express their needs for touch, talk and emotional intimacy to their husbands while men express their needs to feel affirmed and pursued. The homework is for couples to discuss improving their relationships.
The document discusses resolving conflict in relationships. It identifies four approaches to conflict: wanting to win, yielding, withdrawing, and resolving. It emphasizes the importance of confronting issues in a loving way, dealing with anger constructively, and achieving forgiveness. Resolving conflict through open communication can strengthen relationships. The homework assignment asks readers to reflect on their personal conflict approach and identify an issue currently blocking their relationship.
This document discusses parenting toddlers and setting boundaries. The main points are:
- The goal or "bullseye" is to train children to impact the world for Jesus Christ through training and discipling.
- Parents must set clear boundaries for their children based on Ephesians 6:4 about bringing children up in the Lord's training and instruction.
- Setting and consistently enforcing boundaries, even when children challenge them, provides security for children and teaches them to obey God and their parents. boundaries must be set in a loving way so children understand.
The document discusses the "Ten Commandments of Rock Your Family" which includes getting home as commandment number five. It provides tips for getting home such as figuring out a way to be home, making your home a place kids want to be, being intentional, making memories with your family, evaluating outside commitments, taking vacations together, having food at home, not missing family time, and looking at your calendar to determine what non-essential activities to decline.
The document discusses how parents can build relationships with their teenagers. It advises that parents should engage with their teens by entering their world, pursuing them, and dating their daughters if they have one. Parents are also encouraged to get their teens to open up by listening without judging, critiquing, or complaining, in order to cultivate trust and build the relationship. The homework assignment is for parents to apologize to their teen and identify three ways to engage with and connect to their teenager.
The document discusses different styles of conflict resolution, types of anger including chronic anger, and the importance of forgiveness. It notes there are four styles of conflict: win, yield, withdraw, resolve. Chronic anger is usually situation-specific but displaced from another situation and tied to unresolved past issues or abuse. The document emphasizes that to deal with chronic anger, one must forgive, as forgiveness allows one to break free from chronic anger and sets the forgiver free from being a prisoner to their own anger.
The document discusses resolving conflict in relationships. It identifies four approaches to conflict: wanting to win, yielding, withdrawing, and resolving. It emphasizes the importance of confronting issues in a loving way, dealing with anger constructively, and achieving forgiveness. Resolving conflict through open communication can strengthen relationships. The homework assignment asks readers to reflect on their personal conflict approach and identify an issue currently blocking their relationship.
The document discusses how parents should model good behavior for their children, as children learn more from watching their parents' actions than from their words alone. It notes that children will emulate what their parents model and that parents are responsible for setting a good example in their own lives. The homework assignment asks parents to reflect on what behaviors they are currently modeling and identify three steps they can take to become better role models for their children.
The document discusses resolving conflict in relationships. It identifies four approaches to conflict: wanting to win, yielding, withdrawing, and resolving. It emphasizes the importance of confronting issues in a loving way, dealing with anger constructively, and achieving forgiveness. Resolving conflict through open communication can strengthen relationships. As homework, readers are asked to reflect on their personal conflict approach and identify an issue currently blocking their relationship.
The document discusses building a great marriage by being fully committed, building the marriage on the rock of Jesus Christ, and putting God first. It advises seeking God's kingdom above all else and trusting that he will take care of other needs, as well as starting the process of submitting one's marriage to God by getting on one's knees in prayer.
This document outlines the structure and objectives of a 15-part online program for addressing compulsive sexual behavior. The program includes 15 video teachings and corresponding workbook sections to be completed over 10-15 minutes each. Participants are encouraged to find a quiet space and pray before each session. The program aims to help participants understand addiction, make positive changes, learn what drives compulsive sexuality, and adopt new tools to live with purity, honor and pride. It includes a sexual addiction screening test and assigns viewing the first session and answering reflection questions honestly and with prayerful support.
This document discusses protecting children from pornography. It notes that pornography is widely accessible today and provides tips for parents on how to discuss it with their kids, such as preserving innocence as long as possible, explaining how God designed their bodies, using internet filters, and putting computers in common family areas. The goal is to protect children's souls from the negative effects of pornography.
The document discusses how to sketch the graph of functions of the form y = f(x). It notes that f(x) must be greater than or equal to 0 within its domain. The graph of y = f(x) can be drawn and critical points occur where f(x) = 0 or f'(x) = 0. The shape of the graph is determined by whether f(x) is greater than or less than 1.
This document discusses the EU Water Initiative and the European Commission's work on water issues. It provides context on the global water crisis, noting that over 1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water and over 2 billion lack basic sanitation. It outlines the policy framework that has developed to address these issues, including the EU Water Framework Directive and commitments made at international conferences. The document then discusses the principal instruments the EU uses in its international policies related to foreign affairs, trade, development, environmental and scientific cooperation that can impact water issues. It provides the EU's commitment to the goals of the Water Initiative through partnerships with other actors.
The document summarizes how XaitPorter can help teams collaborate more efficiently on proposals, tenders, and other large documents. It describes some of the challenges teams face when working on shared documents, such as inconsistent formatting, version control issues, and lack of oversight. It then outlines key features of XaitPorter that address these challenges, such as allowing real-time collaboration, automatic formatting, integrated review and approval workflows, and web-based access without installation. Customer testimonials are provided that highlight reduced timelines and increased win rates experienced when using XaitPorter.
The document discusses maintaining sexual purity and discusses topics like healing from past sexual experiences, understanding the purpose of sex, avoiding addictive sexual behaviors, navigating sexuality in media and relationships, and preparing oneself to have sex within the confines of a committed relationship as God intends. Key points are that sexuality involves mind, body and spirit, sex was designed for oneness between partners, and discipline is important to not lose one's sexuality but have it be part of a pure marriage relationship as God intends.
The document discusses various topics related to sexuality, relationships, and purity. It explores how sexuality involves the mind, body and spirit. Several chapters discuss sexual additives like oral sex and pornography, and how to maintain purity. The goal is to help those who have been harmed heal and those who remain virgins stay pure until marriage. Maintaining patience and forgiving oneself are important parts of the journey toward restoration.
The document discusses the importance of patience during restoration and dealing with the consequences of past actions. It states that we must deal with consequences from disobedience, but God is forgiving. It emphasizes being filled with the Holy Spirit and finding power in helping others as we await Christ's return. Patience involves love and preparation, not idleness.
This document discusses topics around sexuality and sexual purity from a religious perspective. It addresses sexual misuse, obedience to God, distinguishing between commandments, principles and preferences in scripture. It also covers preparing for marriage, developing self-control and faithfulness, giving one's virginity only within God's plan, and how desire can lead to sin and death. The overall message is about maintaining sexual purity and obeying God fully.
The document discusses the dangers of pornography addiction, including isolation, shame, and its negative effects on the mind, body and spirit. It notes that porn is not reality and violates God's design for sexuality within marriage. Pornography addiction can connect people to evil spirits and waste time. The billion dollar porn industry profits from degrading acts that are not to be entertained by Christians. The chapter encourages praying for those involved in pornography and taking thoughts captive to focus on purity.
This document discusses biblical perspectives on sexuality and sexual activity outside of marriage. It defines sexual additives as substitutes for intercourse that are used for fleshly satisfaction. Specific acts discussed include masturbation, oral sex, mutual masturbation, and pornography. The document encourages waiting for marriage to experience full sexual intimacy and warns that substitutes can impair future relationships and have health risks. Rationalizing such behaviors is discouraged, and the document advocates discussing struggles with others for accountability and healing.
The document discusses how to get out of unhealthy relationship cycles through self-respect and using foresight in decisions. It advises refusing what is not good for you, as God knows what is best. Making choices based on internal resolves rather than external factors is important, as is recognizing similarities to past relationships. The next chapter will focus on finding godly femininity.
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Eckhart Tolle's book Practicing the Power of Now discusses the origin of fear. Fear arises from being divorced from the present moment and being identified with one's mind. When the mind is focused on potential future threats, it creates an anxiety gap between the present and what ifs of the future. As long as one is identified with the mind and ego, this fear will be a constant companion since the ego feels insecure and under threat. The body then reacts to this mind message with the emotion of fear.
For those who are interested in self-realization and subsequently God-realization.
We have four-petal control console at forehead - manas, chitta, buddhi, and ahankar. Manas is connected to 5-input senses - ears (sound), eyes (sight), nose (smell), tongue (taste), and skin (touch).
Chitta is the conscious faculty of mind and it provides input from our past experience in previous lives also known as sanskars. Manas and Chitta operate in tandem.
Seat of buddhi is independent and it is intellect as acquired knowledge acquired from outside through 5-input senses and it is intuition as input from soul as real knowledge.
Ahankar is ego which is my 'I' and it authorizes all actions through 5-output senses - speech, hands (manual skill), feet (locomotion), sacral (genital organs), and coccyx (rectal organ).
For success in meditation we have to check externalization of mind and also output activity.
The document outlines an upcoming talk on spiritual stages. It will define key terms, discuss various frameworks for understanding spiritual growth proposed by authors and religious figures, and describe the speaker's own research into common patterns of spiritual development. The goals are to help participants understand their own stage of spiritual growth, identify next steps, and avoid potential pitfalls along the journey. Descriptors of religion, inner life, and relationships will be used to characterize each stage.
Keeping the peace in relationships takes effort. It requires focusing on maintaining unity, agreement, and harmony through open communication and understanding each other's perspectives. Small issues must be addressed promptly to prevent them from escalating. Showing affection through acts of service, quality time, and physical intimacy according to each partner's love language helps strengthen the bond of peace. With work, forgiveness and prioritizing the relationship, the hard-won peace can be sustained.
This document discusses being aware of God's presence. It asks questions about when and where God is most present and how to have an ongoing awareness of God. It discusses discovering God from within, in others, and in the world. It addresses choosing music relevant to one's journey and being the "hand of God" to one's family and community. The document emphasizes loving God and others, living simply, and being internally and eternally motivated. It provides suggestions for developing rituals to be conscious of God's presence in all aspects of life.
The document discusses the Buddhist concept of the Ten Worlds, which are 10 subjective states of mind that people can experience. They range from lower worlds like Hell, Hunger, and Animality, which are driven by external factors and cause suffering, to higher noble worlds like Learning, Realization, Bodhisattva, and Buddhahood, which involve greater self-awareness and compassion for others. The document provides descriptions of each of the Ten Worlds and explains how people can shift between these different mental states at any moment, depending on their circumstances and state of mind. The concept of the Ten Worlds is meant to serve as a framework to help people understand their own emotional experiences and find a path towards more positive states
Stability is one of the three vows that Benedictine sisters and monks take. This presentation considers what this vow might mean for lay people in every day life. Originally given as a retreat at St. Paul's Monastery, St. Paul, Minnesota in 2013.
This document discusses biblical perspectives on sex, relationships, and sexual purity. It addresses topics like the purposes of sex according to God (worship, oneness, procreation), abstaining from sex outside of marriage, masturbation, and sexual addiction. The overall message is that God designed sex to be expressed only between a married husband and wife, and that avoiding sexual sin is important to fulfilling God's purpose for our lives.
The document discusses various topics around relationships, marriage, and sexuality. It explores the definition of love from the Bible, recommends books on marriage, and discusses the importance of patience in relationships. It also addresses being purposefully single in order to learn how to be a wife and finding favor through pregnancy within purpose. The next section is listed as being about the Holy Spirit and the feminine aspect of God as the Helper.
There is a an audio version of my Wordpress Blog on this subject: https://soundcloud.com/lex-mckee/life-can-get-better-and-better The Wordpress Blog is at: http://wp.me/p1gvgd-3J This is all about how to have a life that gets better and better. How? By following a natural model for success, sustainability, and satisfaction. An assessment sheet is available to help you evaluate just how vibrant your life currently is!
The key points made in the document are:
1. The key to creating content that your audience loves is writing content that you yourself are passionate about and enjoy creating.
2. Finding intrinsic motivation and enjoyment in the writing process, rather than being extrinsically motivated by things like praise or engagement metrics, is important for creating content you love.
3. Ideas for new content are more likely to come when taking time to relax and allow your mind to wander freely, such as during warm showers or walks, rather than when constantly checking email or devices.
DEVELOPING RESPECT & RESPONSIBILITY on HUMANITY BASED ON HUMAN RIGHTSEdbert Prathama
This document discusses the philosophy of humanism and how it contrasts with Christianity. It defines humanism as ascribing to the belief that man is alone on Earth and can find pleasure through his own capabilities, without need of a creator. The document asserts that humanism denies that God is in charge of the world and rejects His commandments. It traces the roots of humanist thought back to events in Genesis like the deception of Eve and humanity's attempt to build the Tower of Babel. The document also outlines some of the historical roots of humanism in ancient Greek philosophy and how it has developed modern principles focused on reason, science, and human empathy over religious or supernatural explanations.
The document outlines ten commandments for building a family based on grace through Jesus Christ. The commandments include establishing parental authority, teaching through example, blessing children, prioritizing marriage, spending time with family, teaching life skills, having honest conversations, protecting children's souls, providing spiritual guidance, and giving grace through mistakes. The overall message is that building a family on grace means allowing freedom and mistakes and remembering that children are a gift from God.
This document discusses building a spiritual college fund by investing spiritually in your children. It emphasizes parenting with spiritual truth and biblical instruction at all times, including bedtime stories. Parents are responsible for teaching their children to love God with all their heart through obedience and living out their faith daily. During the teenage years, the goal is to help children find their own spiritual mentor and church community while still providing parental guidance.
This document outlines ten commandments for "Rocking Your Family" and discusses talking to kids about sex. The ten commandments emphasize the parent's role, catching truth through actions not just words, blessing children, prioritizing marriage, spending time with family, teaching life skills, and honestly discussing sex. It notes talking about sex can be scary but is important, and kids may feel embarrassed if parents are. Parents are encouraged to teach kids how to respond if exposed to explicit content and give ideas to remove themselves from inappropriate situations, and explain what is and isn't appropriate. The homework suggests creating a rite of passage and discussing a list of sex terms with children.
This document discusses teaching life skills to children daily. It recommends teaching children how to resolve conflicts, communicate effectively, understand how men and women think, and take responsibility by not doing everything for them. Parents are encouraged to intentionally seize moments to impart these skills as it could help children in their future careers. The homework is to list five life skills to teach kids.
This document outlines the fifth commandment of "Rock Your Family": Get Home. It provides tips for figuring out how to be home more such as making your home a magnet kids want to be at, being intentional about spending time there, making memories as a family, limiting outside involvement, taking vacations together, having food available at home, and not missing important moments. The final tip is to look at your calendar to determine what non-essential activities to decline in order to spend more time at home.
The document discusses the importance of prioritizing marriage for the sake of one's children. It notes that "The greatest thing you can do for your kids is love your spouse" and stresses that marriage is work that requires spending quality time together. Failing to do so could cause the relationship to drift and negatively impact one's sex life. Men are encouraged to help their wives by ensuring she has personal time. The key message is that marriage should not be dominated by children and must remain a priority through scheduled date nights and relationship-building efforts.
The document discusses the importance of blessing children through meaningful touch, spoken words of affirmation, attaching high value to who they are, predicting a special future for them, and committing to help that future become a reality. It provides examples for each of these five aspects of blessing from authors Gary Smalley and the presenter. As homework, parents are instructed to write down their children's names, how they are wired, descriptive words for them, how to bless them, envision their future, and create a plan to help them.
The document discusses building relationships with teenagers. It recommends that parents hang out with their sons, date their daughters, and spend quality time with them. Teenagers want love, acceptance, and their parents' approval. The document advises parents to engage with their children from a young age, do activities together as a family like dinner, and get involved in their lives. It also suggests finding mentors for children and relying on prayer to strengthen the parent-teen relationship.
This document discusses strategies for parents dealing with teenagers. It advises that teenagers become addicted to freedom at age 13 as they become adults and pull away from parents. The document recommends that parents engage with their teenagers by pursuing them, listening without judgment, asking questions, and building a relationship through activities like dating daughters. Parents are told to allow teenagers freedom while maintaining rules. The homework suggests apologizing to teenagers and finding ways to engage with them.
The document discusses how nobody can fully prepare you for parenthood and encourages rocking your parenting by building your family's foundation on Jesus Christ. It outlines how Jesus is the rock, storms will hit all families but those built on the rock of Christ will withstand them, and concludes by suggesting falling to your knees to ask God for wisdom and discernment in parenting and listing values you want your family to have.
This document discusses grace-based parenting and provides 10 commandments for "rocking your family". It teaches building a family on the foundation of Jesus Christ. The 10 commandments include being the parent, catching truth through actions more than words, giving blessings, prioritizing marriage, spending time with family, teaching life skills, talking about sex honestly, protecting souls, building a spiritual college fund, and giving grace. It emphasizes giving children freedom and grace through parents' own example of admitting mistakes with grace.
The document discusses how parents can protect their children from pornography. It recommends that parents be open about discussing porn with their kids, emphasizing how God designed their bodies and sexuality. It also suggests monitoring kids' internet access, using filters, and keeping devices in common family spaces as ways to safeguard children's innocence and souls from the harms of early exposure to porn.
The document outlines the "Ten Commandments of Rock Your Family" which includes commands like being the parent, catching truth rather than teaching it, giving blessings, prioritizing marriage, getting home, and teaching life skills daily. It also discusses talking honestly with kids about sex, being open with them, teaching them how to respond to explicit content, and creating rites of passage and discussing terms about sex with sons and daughters.
The document discusses the importance of teaching life skills to children daily as part of parenting. It recommends teaching children how to resolve conflicts, communicate effectively, and understand how men and women are wired. Parents should intentionally seize opportunities to teach practical skills and allow children to learn independence, as teaching life skills can benefit children into their future careers.
The document discusses the importance of prioritizing marriage even with children. It emphasizes that making time for each other and one's spouse is critical for the health of the relationship and is the greatest thing one can do for their kids. Specific tips include men helping their wives by giving her time to herself, maintaining an active sex life, and scheduling regular date nights to keep the spark alive. Maintaining a strong marriage through intentional effort is presented as key to a happy family.
The document discusses the importance of blessing children through meaningful touch, spoken words of affirmation, attaching high value to them, predicting a special future for them, and committing to help that future become a reality. It recommends parents write down their children's names, how they are wired, words to describe them, how to bless them, and what their future may look like, as well as creating a plan to help them. The overall message is that blessing children in these ways fulfills their core needs and sets them up for success.
The document discusses a session on "Truth Is Caught" from a program called "X3 Rock Your Family". The key points made are:
- Your children will model what you model in your own life. Your actions speak louder than your words.
- You are responsible for being a good role model through living according to biblical principles and admitting when you are wrong, not what your spouse does.
- The homework is to examine what you are modeling for your children and list steps to improve being the model you want to be.
This document discusses ways for parents to build relationships with their teenagers. It recommends that parents spend quality time with their teens, such as hanging out with sons, taking daughters on dates, and having family dinners together. It also suggests finding activities for teens where parents can help and get involved, as well as connecting teens with other mentors. Parents are advised to engage with their children from a young age and pray for their teens.
This document discusses parenting toddlers and setting boundaries. It emphasizes that parents must establish rules and enforce consequences consistently to feel secure. When children challenge boundaries, parents need to enforce the rules in a loving way while avoiding anger. Effective discipline involves deciding on consequences in advance and disciplining together as married parents. The goal is to teach children to obey through boundaries defined by parents as the authority figures.
The document discusses hitting the bullseye in parenting by deciding on a clear mission statement or goal for the family. It provides the Wilson family mission statement as an example: "Train and launch L-3 warriors that will impact the world for Jesus Christ." It then discusses the importance of launching children into the world for Jesus Christ and training them to be L-3 Warriors, which stands for loving God and others, locking arms in community, and living open-handedly. The homework outlined is to identify a personal and family mission statement and create an acrostic of values using your last name.