If the Christian virtues were running against each other in a high school popularity contest, love would probably win. And forgiveness would probably be in the top five. Who knows, forgiveness might even beat out faith and hope for second…
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Repentance: The Unpopular Partner of Forgiveness
Tagged with: Anger Management, celebrities, Charlie Harper, Charlie Sheen, Christian virtues, Chuck Lorre, entertainment, forgiveness, punishment, relationships, repentance, spirituality, Two and a Half Men
Posted in Popular Culture, Spiritual Growth
Posted in Popular Culture, Spiritual Growth
Don’t Look Back! Press Onwards and Upwards!
Nostalgia never seems to go out of style. Twenty- and thirty-somethings relive their carefree days of high school and college. Forty- and fifty-somethings yearn for their years of young adulthood, before their shoulders were weighed down with heavy burdens of…
Tagged with: Abraham, Dead Sea, don't look back, Exodus, freedom, Lot, Lot's wife, onwards and upwards, pillar of salt, seven spirits, slavery, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Bible
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
There’s Gold in Them Thar Hills . . . I mean, in Them Thar Earthquakes
This just in: Over 80% of the world’s commercially viable gold deposits were formed in mountain-building earthquakes. That’s the conclusion of a recent study by Australian geologists Richard Henley and Dion Weatherley. Earthquakes don’t create gold. Rather, they cause gold…
Tagged with: Dion Weatherley, earthquakes, gold, jewelry, mining, natural disasters, pain, plate tectonics, Richard Henley, science, spirituality, wealth, wedding rings
Posted in Science Philosophy and History, Spiritual Growth
Posted in Science Philosophy and History, Spiritual Growth
Spiritual Growth 101 with Mike Tyson: “The Virtue of Selfishness”
Who woulda thought Mike Tyson was a devotee of Ayn Rand? Before the rumors start flying . . . as far as I know, he isn’t. But he could be. In 2009 Mike Tyson appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show…
Heaven, Regeneration, and the Meaning of Life on Earth
We’ve posted many articles recently about what happens to us when we die. However, to fully comprehend what death entails we need to understand the meaning of life. Why are we here on this earth, anyway? Why do we go…
Tagged with: Creation, Doctor Who, God, heaven, hell, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, neighbor, regeneration, spiritual rebirth, spirituality, the Bible
Posted in Popular Culture, Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Popular Culture, Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Self-Esteem is Made to be Broken
Megan Thode believes that Lehigh University owes her a B. When instead she received a C+ in a class critical to her intended career as a professional counselor, she challenged the grade through the usual university channels. She even called…
Tagged with: children, emotional intelligence, God, Lehigh University, love, Megan Thode, neighbor, psychology, self-esteem, self-image, service, spiritual rebirth, spirituality
Posted in Current Events, Spiritual Growth
Posted in Current Events, Spiritual Growth
What does Jesus Mean when He Says we Must be Born Again?
How Can I Be Reborn? “No one can see the kingdom of God without being born again.” What the heck does that mean? People who ask you, “Have you been born again?” think that they’ve got it all figured out…
Tagged with: born again, Emanuel Swedenborg, evil, Jesus Christ, Nicodemus, reformation, regeneration, repentance, self help, spiritual rebirth, spirituality, the Bible
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Lance Armstrong Takes On the World
Rumor has it that in an upcoming interview with Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong will make a “limited confession” to using performance-enhancing drugs during the time period when he won the prestigious Tour de France bicycle race for seven straight years…
Tagged with: bicycle racing, confession, cycling, doping, entropy, Lance Armstrong, Livestrong Foundation, performance-enhancing drugs, redemption, spiritual rebirth, sports, the world, Tour de France
Posted in Spiritual Growth, Sports and Recreation
Posted in Spiritual Growth, Sports and Recreation
New Year’s Resolutions: Look before you Limp
New Year’s resolutions: they’re easy to make, and easy to break. In fact, according to a 2007 study by professor and psychologist Richard Wiseman, 88% of the people who make New Year’s resolutions fail to achieve their goal. (Click here…
Tagged with: battle, habits, New Year's Resolutions, Richard Wiseman, self-improvement, spiritual battles, spiritual warfare, spirituality, the Bible, towers, war
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Our Wish for You: Finding Happiness from Within
Our wish for you this Christmas is that you may find true happiness and joy. Happiness does not have to be dependent on your physical environment. Happiness can be yours whatever your external circumstances may be, as these pictures of…
Tagged with: children, Emanuel Swedenborg, God, happiness, joy, love, natural disasters, service, spirituality, the Bible, work
Posted in Spiritual Growth
Posted in Spiritual Growth
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