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How Can I Raise My Children from a Spiritual Perspective?
Tagged with: babies, child-raising, children, family, infants, love, marriage, parenting, spiritual child-raising, spirituality, toddlers
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships
Why Does God Require our Love, Worship, and Praise? Is God Insecure?
Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Cat: I am really puzzled by why God would require that Christians must love and worship him. I understand his requirement for us to…
Tagged with: Christianity, Creation, Emanuel Swedenborg, glory, God, love, praise, spirituality, Swedenborg, the Bible, worship
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Why Is Life So Hard? Why are there So Many Struggles?
Inner struggles are a part of our process of spiritual rebirth. There are many words used to describe these spiritual struggles: Temptation. The dark night of the soul. Spiritual anguish. Depression. The book of Revelation calls these dark and troublesome…
Tagged with: born again, depression, Emanuel Swedenborg, inner struggles, spiritual rebirth, spiritual storms, Swedenborg, temptation, the dark night of the soul
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Spiritual Growth
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Spiritual Growth
Evil Is Real, and it Does Harm the Innocent
There’s a New Age myth floating around that evil is not real; that evil is just an illusion; that if anything evil happens to us, it’s either karma for evil we ourselves did in a past life, or it’s something…
Tagged with: Catawba County NC, evil, Good Samaritan, Jefferson Heavner, justice, Marvin Jacob Lee, Marvin Lee, North Carolina, violence
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering
What is the Relationship between Head and Heart in Swedenborg’s Theology?
According to the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), the universe and everything in it is quite literally created from and built around the interplay between what is colloquially known as “head and heart,” or between love and wisdom, in the more abstract language that Swedenborg commonly…
Tagged with: Emanuel Swedenborg, head and heart, head heart hands, heaven, Noah's Ark, regeneration, rest from labor, salvation, spiritual rebirth, spirituality, Swedenborg, The Great Flood
Posted in Spiritual Growth
Posted in Spiritual Growth
Are We Saved in an Instant? How was the Thief on the Cross Saved?
The previous article, “How Can a Criminal Get to Heaven?” brought on a whirlwhind of comments about the Protestant belief in salvation by faith alone vs. the belief of the rest of Christianity in salvation by faith together with works.…
Tagged with: Christianity, evil, faith, faith alone, fundamentalism, God, heaven, salvation, spiritual rebirth, spirituality, the Bible, thieves on the cross
Posted in Spiritual Growth
Posted in Spiritual Growth
How Can a Criminal Get to Heaven?
On November 19, 2015, Jeremy Wilson was released from federal prison after serving six years for impersonating an Army officer, forging a judge’s signature, and stealing a car. By that time he had racked up convictions for fraud and forgery…
Tagged with: character, Chris Gardner, heaven, hell, Jeremy Wilson, reformation, repentance, salvation, spiritual rebirth, spirituality, The Pursuit of Happyness, work
Posted in Spiritual Growth
Posted in Spiritual Growth
What is the Meaning of Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh?
The Gospel of Matthew tells us that: After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came . . . and there, ahead of them, went the star that they had seen at its rising, until it stopped over…
Tagged with: baby Jesus, Christianity, Christmas, frankincense, gold, Jesus Christ, magi, myrrh, spiritual meaning, the Bible, the nativity, wise men
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Traffic Laws: Humans vs. Robots
Google is having some technical difficulties with its driverless cars. Or perhaps they’re having human difficulties? Okay, here’s the story: according to a University of Michigan study, self-driving cars are getting into twice as many accidents as human drivers. None…
Tagged with: business, cars, cars and driving, driverless cars, driving, google cars, human law, science, self-driving cars, technology, traffic laws, traffic safety
Posted in Current Events, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Current Events, Science Philosophy and History
Ruler of All Nations
(This article is a lightly edited version of a talk originally delivered on June 8, 2003.) Throughout recorded human history runs the thread of human beings trying to rule and control as much of this earth as we are able.…
Tagged with: Creation, divine law, divine power, God, government, human law, human power, military power, nations, power, war
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
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