Footprints.

                            

The churches are all empty.

Our friends are all divorced.

Our world is wrecked by drugs.

Our media is owned by the rich.

The disparity between rich and poor is at an all time high.

Our governments are controlled by plutocrats.

Our popular culture is saturated with evil.

And everyone follows the football.

These are the footprints of an evil in our society which few people can see.

Satanism in rock music, movies, sports, T.V., and literature casts a shadow over the whole world.

It is a conspiracy of gigantic proportions.

And it is the defining secret of our time.


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Awakening.

                            

Around the world there is an awakening of humanity to a new spirituality.

In diverse places and cultures there are men and women coming to a new understanding of God and His relationship with humankind.

The similarities of these revelations suggests the hand of God moving anew to lift humanity from the darkness which has engulfed us.

Eastern meditation practises have prepared us for the experience we are now seeing.  Positive thought processes and awareness of the present moment lead us to contemplation of the Divine.

Prayer and study lead us into relationship with God.

A new way of interpreting scripture allows the facts of science to be reconciled with religion.

But it is when we practise unconditional love that we enter the sanctuary - our heart of hearts - and meet God face to face.


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New Wine (Water).

                                 

Jesus said,"'And no one after drinking old wine desires new wine, but says, "The old is good."'" Luke 5:39 (NRSV)

And I say, "No one after drinking wine desires water, but says, 'The wine is good.'"


[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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Love One Another.

                            

It is God's Will that we love one another.

So let's see you do it!

Love overrides fear and prejudice and judgement.

If we love someone enough we will ignore their faults, their sins, and their crimes; we will see their soul, the divine spark within them, and we will treat them as we would a child or a brother or sister.

We will pray for them and wish the best for them.

We will not reject or judge them.

So the Will of God is not that we judge people according to some moral rule or principle but that we aspire to goodness through love.

It is God's Will that we love one another.

So let's see you do it!


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Gods.

                            

Primitive humans ascribed to their gods aspects which they experienced in life that seemed to have some supernatural power.

Thus was born religion.

Socrates maintained that the Greek gods were fakes.

Many of these forces can now be explained by science.

The ancient gods live on, however, as the planets and asteroids of astrology.

But there remains a supernatural power that transcends our mere earthly existence.

This is God.
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
The God of Moses, Jesus, and Mohammad.

Transcendent, sublime, and beautiful this God is beyond our imagining.

But we can enter into relationship with this God through love.

Wholly benevolent, beyond dualism, and immanent God wishes the best for us.

Through forgiveness, mercy, and compassion He engages us in life and welcomes us after death.

He periodically breaks into human history to lure us to a better way - away from the gods of the world and towards His Kingdom.

This is the covenant He makes with humankind to do His Will on earth.

And what is His Will?

That we love one another.


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Biographies.

                            

People read the biographies of successful people.

This is because we are trained from birth to aspire to worldly success.

But we make the mistake of thinking that those who succeed in a worldly sense are the right people to emulate.

The qualities that it takes to succeed in the world are not spiritual qualities.

So if we aspire to be spiritual people stars and celebrities are not the right people to follow.

Spirituality is characterized by humility.

Spiritual people are warm and compassionate, patient, honest, and charitable.  They are filled with joy and peace.

But most of all they show love.

These are not the qualities you will find in the biographies of stars and celebrities.


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Safety in Numbers.

                            

There is nothing more terrifying than being alone.

That is why people feel safety in numbers.

In the schoolyard you will often find that a group of children will gang up on an individual and bully him.

This is terror in the group dynamic.

Children are so afraid of being bullied by others that they band together to pick on someone more vulnerable than themselves - an individual who is a lone representative of difference.

We see this in gangs.
We see this in religion.
We see this in politics.
We see this in international relations.

But the fact remains - it is a manifestation  of fear.

Fear that is learnt from the world around us.


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