Many question how a God could exist when there is so much pain and suffering in the world, or they have concluded that if a God does exist he/she is either not loving or not powerful. In this podcast I weave a few vital threads together in order to help illuminate the portal of pain and how we can gain a new category of Ultimate Reality through our pain experience.
Fear can stop us in our tracks and stall out our lives. Our relationship to fear is a great lens to see some of our spiritual realities. Many live religious lives but because of fear they risk nothing and are never shaped into their best self. The unbeliever who ignores diminishes spiritual realities also risks nothing and settles for the small self. If we would really live abundantly, we must be shaped by the big wave and that is where Red Bull and e
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We all possess a set of categories through which we understand life and the world. Confusion is essentially immaturity in any particular category. Confusion comes at a great cost to a life that is full and free. The antidote is to be a learner or student. This requires humility to learn from a teacher. The goal is to stay humble and learning so that we are ever widening our categories. We must strive never to become certain and fixed in any category, for that is the end of growth. Certain people lack life. If we can be confident yet humble we will inherit everything.
Why is the bible so important to some people while it is worthless to others? Is the bible regressive or progressive? It comes down to theology, but what is that? In this episode, I show that the bible thumper and the rejector are actually the same. I also show that theology doesn’t come from the bible, but the bible comes from a theology of Love. Thus there are people who reject the bible because they are so committed to what the bible teaches. You’ll have to listen to figure this out.
If a moment is anything but just a passing second, if it is a portal through which God loves us IN and AS our very lives, then what does it look like to live consciously aware of this reality. In this podcast I show my experience which proves we can not DO anything to abide in the moment, we can only BE with the moment.
We are all searching for a moment. It is different for all of us, but we are all longing for some moment to come to pass at some time. What if the moment is so much more than a brief emotional elation? What if a moment is a portal through which we touch transcendent reality? In this episode I show just what is packed inside of each moment and this illuminates the true nature of sorrow along with a path out of it.
Every person answers the question, “Is God Real?” or “Is Religion real?” It’s unavoidable. There are only a few ways in which we all answer that question, and the way we answer tells us so much about what we bring to the question or what we want to get out of it. In this podcast I share from my book “Oblivious” and address the real problem with how we answer this question, and how a simple easy adjustment will change everything.
The issue of homosexuality actually opens up much larger issues which are at the heart of Christianity. Confusion over sin and the hurt that the church has caused is only one part of it. The message of Christianity and the gospel have been truncated and the bigger story needs to be retold. In this last part, I explain the goal of Christianity with a fresh set of eyes in the hope of orienting others into the bigger story into which they are being written.
In this section I go deeper into the practical implications of the anti-gay position, and why it begins to lose credibility in the face biblical teachings and the meta-narrative of the law of love. The bible doesn’t actually say all the things the church says it does. The church’s ideas of homosexuality are rooted in its external definition of sin and stand against the teaching of Jesus. Sexual immorality and homosexuality are not synonymous.