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1-1-2006 New Year's Sunday Service of the Church Within #480
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Weekly On-Line Services Since September 29th 1996
Today's Service is offered by: Pastor Daniel J. Megow
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[Note:]
For your reference enjoyment:
Most of the Sunday Service Quotes from “TeaM” sources have been found on-line at: http://www.tmarchives.com
and... Most of the Quotes I use from “Individual People” I get on-line from: http://www.quotationspage.com
Both Sites are Fountains of Information and have Exceptional “Search” capabilities... I recommend them Highly!
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Humor of the Week
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During a visit to the insane asylum, a visitor asked the director what criteria was used to determine whether a person should be institutionalized.
"Well" said the director, "we fill a bathtub with water and offer the patient a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket and ask them to empty the tub".
OK, here's your test:
1. would you use the spoon? or
2. would you use the teacup? or
3. would you use the bucket?
"Oh, I understand" said the visitor. " A normal person would use the bucket as it is larger than the spoon or the cup."
"Nooooooo," replied the director. "A normal person would pull the drain plug."
(You aren't required to tell anyone how you scored on this test.)
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Welcome by: Pastor Daniel
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Greetings my Beloved Sisters and Brothers, and welcome once again to the Church that is Within.
Well… Happy New Year Everyone! May 2006 be better than 2005 for all of us!
The topic of today's New Year's Sunday Service, #480, is “The ultimate security…” and a “Happy New…!!!”
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Quotes
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(From: H. Stanley Judd)
The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.
(From: The Urantia Papers - Paper-131 Section-1)
"If the faith of the Most High has entered your heart, then shall you abide free from fear throughout all the days of your life. Fret not yourself because of the prosperity of the ungodly; fear not those who plot evil; let the soul turn away from sin and put your whole trust in the God of salvation. The weary soul of the wandering mortal finds eternal rest in the arms of the Most High; the wise man hungers for the divine embrace; the earth child longs for the security of the arms of the Universal Father. The noble man seeks for that high estate wherein the soul of the mortal blends with the spirit of the Supreme
(From: Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993)
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
(From: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
(From: Abraham - 7/3/02 – The Woods Cross, UT TeaM at IC'02)
Spiritual knowledge does not make one individual any more valued than another. To have that spiritual security brings new confidence to be in the world with an eye single to the glory of God. There is not any spiritual practice really that can make you have more faith. There are many rituals mortals perform hoping to invoke Gods presence. I am saying God's presence is there already--no matter what--no more, no less. It matters not the time or mind-set. He is always there. It is your willingness to allow what you think you want and need to dissolve that will bring you more spiritual security, more cosmic connection.
(From: H. Stanley Judd)
The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.
(From: Pearl S. Buck)
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
(From: Ham 5/25/92 – the Woods Cross TeaM)
In the road of life often are there hard and unsure pathways. There are unsteady footholds. There are rocks which give out beneath our feet. Where we thought we were safe is not always so. Understand that your concepts of security and safety may be based on illusion. For what is true security? What constitutes a balanced, safe, secure, strong existence? Is it not centered on the good Spirit of our Father, who guides us and shows us the path to the noble exercise of faith and security?
Security, safety, is not found in this world. I say to you, all this material world existence is but dust. All your wealth, all your fame and glory will not carry you beyond the grave. All - you leave behind. Yes. Surely as I speak, all of this world is but dust and much of what you perceive to be secure is crumbling even now.
I am not advocating the giving up of your material wealth and security. No, not at all. However, I do mean to show that this is not your true security, for what matters it to a man of true faith if all things earthly crumble. He who has real and abiding faith and strength is secure in his knowledge of truth and reality. This knowledge precedes and supersedes all of the material world.
(From: H. Stanley Judd)
The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.
(From: The Urantia Papers - Paper-196 Section-3)
Jesus revealed and exemplified a religion of love: security in the Father's love, with joy and satisfaction consequent upon sharing this love in the service of the human brotherhood.
(From: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
(From: The Urantia Papers - Paper-160 Section-1)
Successful living is nothing more or less than the art of the mastery of dependable techniques for solving common problems. The first step in the solution of any problem is to locate the difficulty, to isolate the problem, and frankly to recognize its nature and gravity. The great mistake is that, when life problems excite our profound fears, we refuse to recognize them. Likewise, when the acknowledgment of our difficulties entails the reduction of our long-cherished conceit, the admission of envy, or the abandonment of deep-seated prejudices, the average person prefers to cling to the old illusions of safety and to the long-cherished false feelings of security. Only a brave person is willing honestly to admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.
(From: John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
the man, and happy he alone,
who can call today his own:
who, secure within, can say,
To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
(From: Ham 5/25/92 – the Woods Cross TeaM)
Father, who walks with each of us is always concerned over your true welfare and will never, ever forsake His children. You are all carefully looked after and watched over and cared for within His great eternal arms. He who is the maker of all reality, brings you to Himself and to the truth of this fount of all that is. Within each child, the good spirit is and is becoming in life. Often all the cares of the world are so overwhelming - that we who are, or once were, part of this dust - conceive that it may overwhelm and overcome us. How untrue. How false. What a lie is this.
Yes. You who see, who have insight into true reality, must exercise this living faith to get you through these times of transition and trouble. Yes. You must show within and without to others that you can and do rely upon the living God and the Spirit of Truth for your true security, happiness, welfare, and progress.
Transitions are so very difficult in their uncertainty. Uncertainty, causes the material mind to fear and fear can be deadly to spiritual progress. Always must we look to the Father in these times of difficulty - uncertain futures. Yes, indeed. Even when we are uncertain of ourselves, certain can we be of God.
(From: H. Stanley Judd)
The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.
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The Sermon
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Even though it is but the next day after yesterday, there is something about the first day of “The New Year” that brings on a unique sense of Anticipation… Hopefulness… perhaps even of Determination. It almost seems sometimes as if opening a door into a new and unexplored room. At the turn of the New Year, the potential for something Better (at least than last year), is still alive and well in the heart of most.
What if…
Instead of “Happy New Year” it was…
“Happy New Day!”
What if… waking up Each Morning brought on that, “unique sense of Anticipation… Hopefulness… perhaps even of Determination?”
What if… the beginning of Each Day was like “opening a door into a new and unexplored room?”
What if… a realization of “the potential for something Better” greeted you each and Every Dawn?
What if… my morning Prayer/Meditation was, “I wish to be a little bit more Knowledgeable… Understanding… Wiser… more Caring… Compassionate… more Loving Today, than I was yesterday.”?
What if… my Eagerness for a “New Day” was equal to my eagerness toward a “New Year”?
Do you think that my life would change for the better?
Do you think that Yours would?
So… what does any of this have to do with your own personal “ultimate security”?
Perhaps nothing.
Perhaps Everything…
“Happy New Day!!!”
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The Prayer
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Dear God,
My Faith and Trust in Your Infinite Wisdom, Watchcare and Love is my Security… it is a Profound feeling of security that None can take away from me.
You ALL are Within the Infinitely Loving Embrace of our Universal
Parent,
The Creator's Infinite Love to all of You,
Pastor Daniel
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1-8-2006 Sunday Service of the Church Within #481
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Weekly On-Line Services Since September 29th 1996
Today's Service is offered by: Pastor Daniel J. Megow
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[Note:]
For your reference enjoyment:
Most of the Sunday Service Quotes from “TeaM” sources have been found on-line at: http://www.tmarchives.com
and... Most of the Quotes I use from “Individual People” I get on-line from: http://www.quotationspage.com
Both Sites are Fountains of Information and have Exceptional “Search” capabilities... I recommend them Highly!
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Humor of the Week
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A university professor went to visit a famous Zen master. While the master quietly served tea, the professor talked about Zen. The master poured the visitor's cup to the brim, and then kept pouring. The professor watched the overflowing cup until he could no longer restrain himself.
"It's overfull! No more will go in!" the professor blurted.
"You are like this cup," the master replied, "How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup."
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Welcome by: Pastor Daniel
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Greetings my Beloved Sisters and Brothers, and welcome once again to the Church that is Within.
What gets you out of bed in the morning?
What makes Live worth Living for you?
What really Motivates you in Life?
The topic of today's Sunday Service, #481, is “Considering the Source…
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Quotes
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(From: Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
(From: Black Elk)
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
(From: St. Augustine - Civitas Dei, 11:10)
There is an inner form which is not a shape but a shaper, with a causality deriving from the secret and hidden determination of some living and intelligent nature which can shape not merely the outer forms of physical bodies but the inner souls of living things.
(From: The Urantia Papers - Paper-12 Section-7)
Even though the Paradise Father functions through his divine creators and his creature children, he also enjoys the most intimate inner contact with you, so sublime, so highly personal, that it is even beyond my comprehension--that mysterious communion of the Father fragment with the human soul and with the mortal mind of its actual indwelling. Knowing what you do of these gifts of God, you therefore know that the Father is in intimate touch, not only with his divine associates, but also with his evolutionary mortal children of time. The Father indeed abides on Paradise, but his divine presence also dwells in the minds of men.
(From: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!
Thou soul is the eternity of thought!
That giv'st to forms and images a breath
And everlasting motion! Not in vain
By day or star-light thus from by first dawn
Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me
The passions that build up our human soul,
Not with the mean and vulgar works of man,
But with high objects, with enduring things,
With life and nature, purifying thus
The elements of feeling and of thought,
And sanctifying, by such discipline
Both pain and fear, until we recognize
A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.
(From: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
(From: Oprah Winfrey)
What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
(From: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed at by your finger.
(From: The Urantia Papers - Paper-146 Section-3)
"While you cannot observe the divine spirit at work in your minds, there is a practical method of discovering the degree to which you have yielded the control of your soul powers to the teaching and guidance of this indwelling spirit of the heavenly Father, and that is the degree of your love for your fellow men. This spirit of the Father partakes of the love of the Father, and as it dominates man, it unfailingly leads in the directions of divine worship and loving regard for one's fellows.
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The Sermon
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There are many things that cause people to do what they do and live how they live.
…many things that keep them from standing still too long, that put them in motion.
…many things that stir a person into conscious motivated action.
All can be divided under three major categories.
1.] Those that are coveted by ego,
2.] Those that are craved by Soul and,
3.] Those that are desired by Spirit.
If you are moved into Action by Fear, Hatred, or Revenge…
If you are moved into Action by the desire for Wealth or Possessions…
If you are moved into Action by the lust for Power or Control…
…consider the source.
If you are motivated into Action by the craving to discover Truth…
If you are encouraged into Action by the yearning to perceive Beauty…
If you are inspired into Action by the longing to experience and express Goodness…
…consider the Source.
If you are stimulated into Action by Caring…
If you are stirred into Action by feelings of Compassion…
If you are enthused into Action by Unselfish Love…
…Consider “The Source.”
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The Prayer
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Dear God,
Help me the better to recognize and listen to Your “still small voice” within my mind
You ALL are Within the Infinitely Loving Embrace of our Universal
Parent,
The Creator's Infinite Love to all of You,
Pastor Daniel
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1-15-2005 Sunday Service of the Church Within #482
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Weekly On-Line Services Since September 29th 1996
Today's Service is offered by: Pastor Daniel J. Megow
Please Freely Share any of our Church Within Services with Any and All whom you feel might Appreciate them. If you have received this Service from a friend and would like to subscribe to our Weekly On-Line Services, send an e-mail with your request to: seewithin@churchwithin.org Thank You! ...and Please Visit our Church Within Web-Site at http://www.churchwithin.org
[Note:]
For your reference enjoyment:
Most of the Sunday Service Quotes from “TeaM” sources have been found on-line at: http://www.tmarchives.com
and... Most of the Quotes I use from “Individual People” I get on-line from: http://www.quotationspage.com
Both Sites are Fountains of Information and have Exceptional “Search” capabilities... I recommend them Highly!
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Humor of the Week
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The doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so the doctor gave him another six months.
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Welcome by: Pastor Daniel
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Greetings my Beloved Sisters and Brothers, and welcome once again to the Church that is Within.
To me, Faith is one of the most interesting of subjects. Without reading through the past 481 Sunday Services to make sure, I'm pretty confident that “Faith” is probably used as my main topic more than any other individual concept (except perchance the topic of “Love” which I also value and use somewhat more frequently than most other subjects).
So I hope you'll bear with me if I use it again today…
The topic of today's Sunday Service, #482, is “The One True Faith…”
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Quotes
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(From: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
(From: Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.
(From: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread
(From: Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
All Faith is false, all Faith is true:
Truth is the shattered mirror strown
In myriad bits; while each believes
His little bit the whole to own.
(From: The RSV Bible - Romans 12:3-4)
For by the grace given to me I bid every one among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith which God has assigned him. For as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same function
(From: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
(From: Henry S. Haskins)
Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
(From: The Urantia Papers - Paper-132 Section-3)
Truth cannot be defined with words, only by living. Truth is always more than knowledge. Knowledge pertains to things observed, but truth transcends such purely material levels in that it consorts with wisdom and embraces such imponderables as human experience, even spiritual and living realities. Knowledge originates in science; wisdom, in true philosophy; truth, in the religious experience of spiritual living. Knowledge deals with facts; wisdom, with relationships; truth, with reality values.
Man tends to crystallize science, formulate philosophy, and dogmatize truth because he is mentally lazy in adjusting to the progressive struggles of living, while he is also terribly afraid of the unknown. Natural man is slow to initiate changes in his habits of thinking and in his techniques of living.
Revealed truth, personally discovered truth, is the supreme delight of the human soul; it is the joint creation of the material mind and the indwelling spirit. The eternal salvation of this truth-discerning and beauty-loving soul is assured by that hunger and thirst for goodness which leads this mortal to develop a singleness of purpose to do the Father's will, to find God and to become like him. There is never conflict between true knowledge and truth. There may be conflict between knowledge and human beliefs, beliefs colored with prejudice, distorted by fear, and dominated by the dread of facing new facts of material discovery or spiritual progress.
But truth can never become man's possession without the exercise of faith. This is true because man's thoughts, wisdom, ethics, and ideals will never rise higher than his faith, his sublime hope. And all such true faith is predicated on profound reflection, sincere self-criticism, and uncompromising moral consciousness. Faith is the inspiration of the spiritized creative imagination.
(From: The KJV Bible - Romans 1:17)
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
(From: George E. Woodberry)
If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
(From: The RSV Bible - Luke 22:32)
but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail; and when you have turned again, strengthen your brethren."
(From: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy
(From: Leo Braeck)
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.
(From: Mantutia - 2/15/04 – The Faith Garden TeaM)
Go forward in faith. Follow your inner intuitions, for even though they may prove to be different from your expectations, indeed will your wisdom and spiritual growth be greatly benefited by it. It is far less important that you be right in your ideas than it is for you to be propelled by your ideals.
(From: Ham 5/9/2004 – the Nashville TeaM)
True faith is liberating, open, and free. Faith that is not free is not true faith.
(From: The KJV Bible - Hebrews 11:1)
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
(From: The Urantia Papers - Paper-101 Section-8)
Belief has attained the level of faith when it motivates life and shapes the mode of living. The acceptance of a teaching as true is not faith; that is mere belief. Neither is certainty nor conviction faith. A state of mind attains to faith levels only when it actually dominates the mode of living. Faith is a living attribute of genuine personal religious experience. One believes truth, admires beauty, and reverences goodness, but does not worship them; such an attitude of saving faith is centered on God alone, who is all of these personified and infinitely more.
Belief is always limiting and binding; faith is expanding and releasing. Belief fixates, faith liberates. But living religious faith is more than the association of noble beliefs; it is more than an exalted system of philosophy; it is a living experience concerned with spiritual meanings, divine ideals, and supreme values; it is God-knowing and man-serving. Beliefs may become group possessions, but faith must be personal. Theologic beliefs can be suggested to a group, but faith can rise up only in the heart of the individual religionist.
Faith has falsified its trust when it presumes to deny realities and to confer upon its devotees assumed knowledge. Faith is a traitor when it fosters betrayal of intellectual integrity and belittles loyalty to supreme values and divine ideals. Faith never shuns the problem-solving duty of mortal living. Living faith does not foster bigotry, persecution, or intolerance.
Faith does not shackle the creative imagination, neither does it maintain an unreasoning prejudice toward the discoveries of scientific investigation. Faith vitalizes religion and constrains the religionist heroically to live the golden rule.
(From: The ASB Bible - Matthew 9:29)
Then He touched their eyes, saying, "It shall be done to you according to your faith."
(From: The ASB Bible - Mark 11:22)
And Jesus answered saying to them, "Have faith in God.
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The Sermon
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Ya' know Really… There is Only ONE True Faith that has any Valuable Meaning Whatsoever!
Your Faith!!!
…and of course, Mine.
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The Prayer
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Dear God,
I have Faith in Your Perfect and Universal and Omnipresent Love and Wisdom. It is my experience that Faith in all else pales by comparison.
You ALL are Within the Infinitely Loving Embrace of our Universal
Parent,
The Creator's Infinite Love to all of You,
Pastor Daniel
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1-22-2005 Sunday Service of the Church Within #483
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Weekly On-Line Services Since September 29th 1996
Today's Service is offered by: Pastor Daniel J. Megow
Please Freely Share any of our Church Within Services with Any and All whom you feel might Appreciate them. If you have received this Service from a friend and would like to subscribe to our Weekly On-Line Services, send an e-mail with your request to: seewithin@churchwithin.org Thank You! ...and Please Visit our Church Within Web-Site at http://www.churchwithin.org
[Note:]
For your reference enjoyment:
Most of the Sunday Service Quotes from “TeaM” sources have been found on-line at: http://www.tmarchives.com
and... Most of the Quotes I use from “Individual People” I get on-line from: http://www.quotationspage.com
Both Sites are Fountains of Information and have Exceptional “Search” capabilities... I recommend them Highly!
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Humor of the Week
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
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Welcome by: Pastor Daniel
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Greetings my Beloved Sisters and Brothers, and welcome once again to the Church that is Within.
The topic of today's Sunday Service, #483, is Belonging…
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The Sermon
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Have you ever said (or wanted to say), “I don't belong to you! You don't Own me!”?
Yeah, well… that's not the interpretation of “belonging” that I'm going to today…
Ya know… Life seems much more comfortable when you have a moderate amount of Belongings to surround yourself with, doesn't it? Until of course one factors in the incessant human urge to increase the interpretation of what “moderate” means. Then of course it's pretty much of a stalemate as far as the Actual overall comfort level is concerned. I guess as long as your “belongings” don't own You…
But…
That's not the definition of “belonging” I'm heading towards either…
Nor am I going to go on about belonging, as to… a political party, a race, a nation, a church, a circumscribed belief system…
Rather…
It's that… Inner Feeling of Belonging, that inner Yearning for Belonging that is well nigh Universal to all… the Craving for Companionship, and Assurance, Love and Validation… that Belonging that brings us together as a Family… a Universal Family.
Now That's what I'm talkin about.
First and Foremost I Belong to The Original Source that I am a part of and that is a part of me, and then of course, I belong to Me.
Belonging to another is a Gift of the Self, a gift of the Heart and of the Soul, a gift of Love. It is in this way that I Belong to my Wife and my Son and my Family… to my Friends and my Workmates and to all of You… to the Larger family, the Universal family, to God's Family.
I truly Own, only my own Personal Experiences to date. They (along with whatever Inner Leadings I may perceive because of them), determine to what and to whom I choose to belong.
Is it really much different for you?
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Quotes
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(From: Steven King)
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.
(From: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
(From: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
(From: John Knowles)
Everyone has a moment in history that belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person 'the world today' or 'life' or 'reality' he will assume you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotion, imprinted itself on him and he carries that stamp of that passing moment forever.
(From: Nebadonia - 10/15/03 – The Center for Christ Consciousness TeaM)
Look to those places within you that harbor fear, uncertainty, loneliness, despair, abandonment. Would you not wish to be free of this? This is what change is all about—creating a new environment within you of connection—of love, of peace, of belonging; belonging to a friendly universe, belonging in a loving family where you have bountiful support and guidance always available.
(From: The Urantia Papers - Paper-112 Section-1)
Personality cannot very well perform in isolation. Man is innately a social creature; he is dominated by the craving of belongingness. It is literally true, "No man lives unto himself."
(From: The RSV Bible - Corinthians I 12:15-20)
If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single organ, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
(From: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
(From: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
(From: The Urantia Papers - Paper-130 Section-8)
Said Jesus: "If you truly want to find God, that desire is in itself evidence that you have already found him. Your trouble is not that you cannot find God, for the Father has already found you; your trouble is simply that you do not know God. Have you not read in the Prophet Jeremiah, `You shall seek me and find me when you shall search for me with all your heart'? And again, does not this same prophet say: `And I will give you a heart to know me, that I am the Lord, and you shall belong to my people, and I will be your God'?
(From: Elyon - 6/20/04 – The North Idaho TeaM)
Give us the strength when our faith falters. Lift us up when we feel fear. Teach us again that in Your presence, with the divine acceptance of Father God, we can transform the lost soul into a being of joy, a being of love, one satisfied with the knowledge of belonging to the universal family.
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The Prayer
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Dear God,
You are the Source of all of my feelings of Belonging.
You ALL are Within the Infinitely Loving Embrace of our Universal
Parent,
The Creator's Infinite Love to all of You,
Pastor Daniel
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1-29-2005 Sunday Service of the Church Within #484
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Humor of the Week
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A woman was driving down the street in a sweat because she had an important meeting and couldn't find a parking place. Looking up toward heaven, she said, "Lord, take pity on me. If you find me a parking place I will go to Mass every Sunday for the rest of my life and give up sex and tequila."
Miraculously, a parking place appeared.
She looked up again and said, "Never mind. I found one."
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Welcome by: Pastor Daniel
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Greetings my Beloved Sisters and Brothers, and welcome once again to the Church that is Within.
When I began the “search” for a topic for today's Sunday service, I remembered that one of the e-lists I am on recently had a subject title of, “Buddy can you paradigm”
…well, it reminded me of when I originally saw that line on the internet in the '90s … it went, “Hey brother, can you paradigm?”
I remember thinking at the time that it was kind of a cool twist on the 'old saying' that went, “Hey brother, can you spare a dime?” …except something to me felt… missing… incomplete somehow… and so… I re-wrote it just a bit so that it would fit into my own personal paradigm of what it should correctly sound like when said out-loud. So… I wrote it out as,
“Hey, brother can use Paradigm.”
It must have been in an old e-mail that I had used it, because I didn't find it in a search of our Sunday Service Archives. But I did find this instead…
(From: The Church Within Sunday Service #70 - 1/25/98)
How often we try to fit New Concepts into Old paradigms... New Wine into Old Wineskins... Try to change things without changing ourselves first...
Think about just how often we really Do that... as much as we would like to avoid doing it. Rather Startling sometimes when ya think about it.
Think about it.
The topic of today's Sunday Service, #484, is Reality-Perception/Paradigm-Perspective …
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Quotes
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(From: The Urantia Papers - Paper-106 Section-9)
Time, space, and experience are man's greatest aids to relative reality perception and yet his most formidable obstacles to complete reality perception.
(From: Dan Millman, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior)
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
(From: The Urantia Papers - Paper-111 Section-1)
Mind is about all you have of universe reality that is subject to your will, and the soul--the morontia self--will faithfully portray the harvest of the temporal decisions which the mortal self is making. Human consciousness rests gently upon the electrochemical mechanism below and delicately touches the spirit-morontia energy system above. Of neither of these two systems is the human being ever completely conscious in his mortal life; therefore must he work in mind, of which he is conscious. And it is not so much what mind comprehends as what mind desires to comprehend that insures survival; it is not so much what mind is like as what mind is striving to be like that constitutes spirit identification. It is not so much that man is conscious of God as that man yearns for God that results in universe ascension. What you are today is not so important as what you are becoming day by day and in eternity.
(From: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
(From: Dee W. Hock)
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
(From: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
(From: Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
(From: The Urantia Papers - Paper-130 Section-4)
Knowledge is the sphere of the material or fact-discerning mind. Truth is the domain of the spiritually endowed intellect that is conscious of knowing God. Knowledge is demonstrable; truth is experienced. Knowledge is a possession of the mind; truth an experience of the soul, the progressing self. Knowledge is a function of the nonspiritual level; truth is a phase of the mind-spirit level of the universes. The eye of the material mind perceives a world of factual knowledge; the eye of the spiritualized intellect discerns a world of true values. These two views, synchronized and harmonized, reveal the world of reality, wherein wisdom interprets the phenomena of the universe in terms of progressive personal experience.
(From: Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964)
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
(From: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
(From: Anthony J. D'Angelo)
Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.
(From: John Constable (1776 - 1837)
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
(From: Donella Meadows, The Global Citizen)
Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.
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The Sermon
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I don't know about you, but I really think that we as a world are due for a Major Paradigm Shift. Those on the leading edge of it would probably remark “We are Way Overdue” while those in the middle of the last one might say “Huh? What? Really? Already?” and those on the trailing edge that are vainly clinging to a crumbling foundation scream, “Not while I still have enough money and power to keep you enslaved by fear and addicted to materialism!”
We seemed to me So Close to “The Shift” in the late 1990's… “Maybe it will manifest with the turn of The New Millennium!” …we thought. The 'middler' majority Surely appeared to be gravitating more toward the leading edge perception of Reality. Didn't they? “We Must be over the 50% point by now!” “ Most people are Sick of war and Want Peace, don't they?”
Surely it must have severely frightened the 'trailies' that they could all of a sudden lose control of the masses… lose their means of selfish worldwide exploitation… lose their Power to manipulate the average persons' fears and desires… lose them as Slaves living under the façade of freedom. They pulled out their most potent 'weapons of fear and brainwashing' and disguised them as Religion and Patriotism. Obviously it was just effective enough to frighten sufficient numbers of 'middlers' back to the familiar confines of the “Pride and Prejudice” Separatism Paradigm.
The 'trailies' may have won that battle, but the front-line crusade for Peace and Brotherhood, Compassion and Love, has not been defeated… only postponed for a short while. All it will take is a slight shift in perception… an understanding that, 'True Reality' is not what IS, but rather what Ought to Be.
I'm not giving up… are You?
I'll bring My Paradigm, You bring Yours, and together we will discover a New Unity of Purpose without an artificial uniformity of perspective.
It is when we all integrate our Own Unique Pieces of the “puzzle” that the “Larger Picture” emerges and becomes recognizable.
Then let us be about it, Shall we?
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The Prayer
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Dear God,
Help me to Grow in Your Image.
You ALL are Within the Infinitely Loving Embrace of our Universal
Parent,
The Creator's Infinite Love to all of You,
Pastor Daniel
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