Holy Spirit & Jesus

The work of the Holy Spirit in the Life of Jesus: According to (Bertolet, 2018), the role of the Holy Spirit in the life of Jesus is to empower Jesus in his humanity to bring about the promised glory of God. Jesus Christ is given the Holy Spirit so that he might fulfill the destiny […]

Spiritual Discipline

“If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected.If you are generous, you will gain everything.If you are honest, people will rely on you.If you are persistent you will get results.If you are kind, you can employ people.” Confucius Ortberg says that the primary goal of our life as Christians is to become transformed spiritually. […]

Why New Testament Sabbath?

Sabbath comes from the Hebrew word Shabbat which means “a day of rest.” According to Hope Bolinger (2022, God commanded a day of rest because He wants us to trust Him, and taking a Sabbath helps keep us from idolizing work. Also, we fall apart if we do not rest (physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually). […]

Self-Renewal

The self-renewal process is a pillar for personal (psychical, spiritual, emotional, physical) strength development, needed to cope, maintain, and cultivate through the ever continuous changes of life, career, family, and health. The process requires an openness, honesty, and willingness for behavioral modification (change). Self-renewal is a participative (attentive) process for well-being demanding action. Definiteness of […]

Resiliency in Trauma

Nothing to my way of thinking is a better proof of a well ordered mind, than a mans ability to stop where he is and pass some time on his own company. SENECA Resiliency is the capacity to move forward despite negative change. The personal, biological, environmental or systemic sources of resilience and their interaction […]

Surrender

As a Christian, when we know we are loved, this is the best preparation for letting go, acceptance, and detachment—surrender. There is not as much need to judge, rather to understand. This is useful practice when engaging in mindfulness, “awareness.” In Whelan (2011), he describes detachment comes to us as a gift. It is a […]

Self-Concept

Simple kindness to one’s self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all. — Dr. David R. Hawkins Christ identity is revealed and experienced in God consciousness. When considering the fundamental self-concept, a unique knowledge, social representation of relationship(s) becomes a part of us, describing the complexity facing culture (individuals) in choice. […]

Identity

Identity is defined as the distinguishing character or personality of an individual (Webster Merriam, 2022). Personality and individuality have a unique discrepancy. Personality is the “outward” appearance (mask) of what we display to others. Individuality is the essence or nature of the individual. This distinction explains to a degree why human nature does not see […]

Wisdom

In James 3:13-17, wisdom is defined as pure, peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy, and good fruits. How does developing wisdom support one developing in spiritual disciplines? Wisdom includes judgment, discrimination, intuition, and all the departments of mind that come under the head of knowing. The throne (house) is at the nerve center called the […]

Listen

Silence gives answers. Rumi What can affectionate listening in (300) Three Hundred Seconds do? The human mind processes information faster than we can talk. This is useful for the instinctual intellectual mind for survival. If we want to tap into empathic listening, patience and discipline of the mind is required. Movement from linear thinking to […]

Humility

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. Carl Gustav Jung Humility is self worth based in wholeness and fulfillment. Humility is the acceptance of myself and my shortcomings. I used to live two different lives, which forced my insides to be in conflict with my outsides. Until […]

Values

What’s most Important to you? (Values) a person’s principles or standards of behavior; one’s judgment of what is important in life. The real value of anything depends on viewpoint. Your viewpoint is based in your perspective, which is magnification of perception. We receive what we focus on. In the final analysis, most of what I […]

Problems

Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success. Bruce Lee It is often more important to go with a problem rather than to go against it. If we want to take more responsibility for our actions, feelings, thoughts, […]

Adversity

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes; do not resist them, that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu Adversity is a facet of life. It is universal and impartial. A time of difficulty. A time of distress. A time of […]

Transition

In the gap is your freedom.

Metanoia

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metanoia Metanoia An Ancient Greek Word that really cannot be distilled into one word. It means more than transformation or change of heart. It means to think beyond your thinking. To think in a new way that is much closer than some far out vision out in the distance. This responsibility must begin with you. […]

Awareness

Serenity arises out automatic in consequence of understanding and comprehension. Dr. David R. Hawkins Where My Recovery Starts An Honest Examination of my Shadow In genuine recovery it is essential to take a self moral inventory of your strengths and weaknesses in order to move forward towards acceptance and forgiveness. Accepting myself and forgiving myself […]

Discipline

What you do now, has an effect.

Meaning

What Meaning Do I Choose? My search for meaning is the source of success or failure. Understanding, perception, and past experience shape my decisions. These decisions affect my attitudes which in turn determine what kinds of results I experience. Now, it is difficult to comprehend that circumstances outside of me do not determine the experience […]

Time

It all starts Now. In Genuine Recovery, my sobriety time is the ever-present realization that I do not drink today. Longevity is a future and past concept — it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow or yesterday. There never will be because time is always happening now. I find there is only present, […]

Choice

What you choose, you are willing.