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Last 20 Shows Prayerful Decisions Going Within 2010 Series: “Prayerful Decision” January 17, 2010Rev. David Alexander Prayer affirms the goodness of who we are. It is not bargaining with an outside power that might withhold something from us. It is not begging. It is acknowledging and affirming that which is! God moves through us and only shows up through our mind. Supplication. Bargaining and begging is a mental affirmation that we don’t have what we want and are separate from God. Becaus ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Spiritual ViewGoing Within 2010 Series: “The Spiritual View” January 24, 2010Rev. David AlexanderSeeing those people and things we don’t like or resonate with us as whole and one with us is the spiritual view. Ernest Holmes’ perspective of the spiritual view was that there are spiritual principles that are universal and work for all people at all times.We are raised with the “human view”, which is that we are separate from others and we have to protect what we have and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
All Things New!“Practice the Presence” Series: “All Things New” January 3, 2010Rev. David AlexanderRev. David paraphrased what Ernest Holmes said 50 years ago:We are expanding as a spiritual movement and when a church is dedicated, we teach and practice our principles. Individual alignment with the divine leads us to an energy of serving others.The cross on the top of this new building will stay there because when it is rightly understood, it has great meaning. The seat of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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Love Overflowing - Advent week 4 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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A Vision of Peace - Advent week 2Advent Series, Wk 2 “Vision for Peace” We’re beginning a sacred time in our church calendar. We are journeying toward the birth of the Christ, which is a spiritual journal of awe and wonder. We’re awakening something inside ourselves and moving toward an awareness and embodiment of the Christ. Advent is the 1st ceremony on the Christian calendar.All the stories about the birth of Jesus were written at least 60 years after it happened, so it isn’t about the a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Joyful Insights - Advent week 3Advent Series, Wk 3 “Joyful Insights” More notes to come....Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Gifts in Mind - Advent week 1Advent week 1 Lectionary - Luke 21:25-36More notes to come....Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Praise It Forward - Practice of Praise SeriesPraise It Forward November 22, 2009Rev. David AlexanderPart 3 of 3. more notes latter....enjoy!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Come On IN! - Practice of Praise SeriesCome On In November 8, 2009Rev. David AlexanderToday, we’re starting a three-week series on gratitude and praise. The vibration of coming into wholeness, when we talk about gratitude, we’re talking about a state of being and praise is gratitude in action—it’s the activity of gratitude. When we’re in gratitude, we’re in the activity of praise. This is a spiritual tool that we can use to make the world a better place.This tool has the possibil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Praise Now - Practice of Praise SeriesPraise Now! November 15, 2009Rev. David AlexanderPart 2 of 3. We are focused now on Prraise in the Now moment! Because Now is all there is! more notes latter....enjoy!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Can We Talk to GodPart 1 of 3Can We Talk With God? October 05, 2009Rev. David AlexanderThe question, “Can we talk with God?”, brings up our relationship to Spirit. We have been told that we can talk “at” God, but can we talk “to” God? We may not have gotten a sense that we could talk to God as we were growing up—maybe we thought that we were doing it wrong. For many of us, we have “traded up” to a new idea that we could have a relationship with God. Many ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
What Are We Talking Can We Talk With God? “What Are We Talking About” October 18, 2009Rev. David Alexander3 faces of God from Ken Wilbur’s work: different aspects of the Infinite.1. 3rd person: Impersonal—infinite—the “is-ness” no gender, behind of all things, that which connects all2. 2nd person: Personification of God: messenger (Jesus or Buddha) or picture of God.3. 1st person: Indwelling essence: essence, divine spark that whelms up inside of us, that is personal just to usErne ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Becoming Receptive to the DivineCan We Talk With God? “Becoming Receptive to the Divine” October 25, 2009Rev. David AlexanderWe relate to God on many levels:The universal—the essence, the Invisible PresenceThe personal—an anthropomorphic picture of GodThe individual—unique in you. We have to cultivate it.We must make peace with the past and move into the indwelling essence of God. We feel this face of God when we are moved or touched by nature, another person, music, etc.There is only One Mind—eve ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Principle of Divine EmergenceThe Principle of Divine Emergence November 1, 2009Rev. David AlexanderSomething wonderful is happening—we see inclusion emerging everywhere. The Divine Presence is creative by nature and it operates through laws. It can only create out of itself. We are each unique and recreate the operation of the Divine. We can only experience good in our life that we sense and accept and embody—then we can express it. The Universe can only do for us what it can do ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Palm Sunday 2009Palm Sunday April 5, 2009Rev. David AlexanderWe are in the season of Easter, which is part of the overall season of our lives that are symbols of our journey of spiritual growth and development. • We start with Advent, a hopeful journey, it is an embarking and the embodiment or the remembering to wake up• Next comes Christmas, when the infant is born—it is the birthing of what we know, our divine son-ship• Epiph ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
A New Thought for EasterA New Thought for Easter April 12, 2009Rev. David AlexanderWe are at the peak of the unfolding story of Jesus’ experience on earth—the Easter experience. Clearly, something happened in the life of Jesus and it is not an accident that the church placed this event during spring, when rebirth and resurrection is apparent in nature. There is an ancient energy of new life in all creation.The interesting thing about Jesus’ death is that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Power of Giving: Why I GiveThe Power of Giving April 19, 2009Rev. David AlexanderWe start the 2009-2010 Pledge Campaign today. We do our campaign in the spring because it the time to plant seeds—to prepare for a new harvest. We’re receiving value from our spiritual community. We are asked to participate at the level of consciousness that gets our attention. In the general church cultures, there is an idea that 20 % of the people give 80 % of the funds to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Power of Giving: What Can I Give?The Power of Giving: Teen Sunday April 26, 2009Kristin McGuirkWe give because we want to be part of the whole. We give out of selflessness rather than selfishness. Our job is to take care of ourselves so that we can give out of wholeness. Our job is to be a vehicle.There are 3 places where we spend our time:1. Family and home life2. Work or school3. Community—spiritualHow do we create community? How do we support financially, with our ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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