Two communities continued their grieving this week. The town of Guinsaugon, Philippines, is gone. Eighteen hundred people, wiped away by a mudslide last Friday, are gradually being found and laid to rest in mass graves, each holding twenty to thirty people. With no one left to identif ...

In this world, there appears to be a state that is lifes opposite. You call it death. It is the one sure thing an inhabitant of this world can count on. All of your apparent successes and failures, your loves, your hates, your losses, your gains, depend on this one inevitable fact. In a ...

St. Patricks Day is known as a day of celebration and festivities, but very few people know the true story of St. Patrick and who he really is. By tradition, he is a patron saint of the Catholic religion because of the captivity that he went through, the time of solitude and his great fa ...

The whole country is talking about the film Brokeback Mountain and it has created no small stir. On a Sunday morning TV editorial Charles Osgood pointed out that Hollywood is not tying to put forth a gay liberal agenda but rather are interested only in the bottom line money. Although no ...

The Daily Express (29/10/05) carried the headline Maniac plots World War 3 in its report on the threat of Iranian President Ahmadinejad to wipe Israel off the map. A bit of hype to sell the newspaper or a real possibility Ahmadinejads victory in the recent Iranian election was organised ...

"Thy Will (not mine) be done," when truly embraced, will create the opening for Spirit to reveal a realm of choices and opportunities impossible for us to know from our small, defended ego-driven selves. Here are a few testimonials from 5 GIFTS students: "By releasing the illusory idea ...

What do you think about yourself How do you view the real you When you look into the mirror, what are you thinking Do you think things like, youre a winner, Im proud of you, I love you, and I believe in you. Or, are you thinking things like, youre a failure, youre stupid, or youre ugly W ...

Even the most talkative and eloquent among us are often at a loss for words when it comes to helping people deal with the death of someone close to them. We want to express our sympathy, our sharing of their feelings, but we don't know how to do it. Words can be comforting, but they're ...

The conservative approach to God and his word has a kind of trinity of truth at the heart of its doctrine. All three parts of this trinity come from the Bible but together they are what can assure us that we have found a true biblical conservatism. It is not always a failsafe and at time ...

Do you feel like you are caught up in the same old routine day after day and feel like you're getting nowhere Do you feel like you are capable of having more, doing more, and being more When we get the fact that God created us as human "beings" (not human "doings"), we will begi ...

Drawn from the deep recesses of the mind, through the wisdom of a moment of inner listening to the Voice of God, is an experience A Course In Miracles calls a Holy Instant. It lies past the doctrinal debates of established religion, beyond the conceptual controversy, at the core of every ...

The best way to achieve the Sreyokarma or the liberating karma is through the meditation. And meditating will lead us to the path of soul's happiness that's etern and sacred. As a result of the meditation the mind will withraw from the sensorial world and will reach joy, happiness and ...

Question: Because Jesus said ...but of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. Mt 24:36, doesnt that mean that we shouldnt spend too much time learning about the second coming of Christ Answer: To use this verse as an incentive to ignore ...

What is it that makes people stay up until the wee hours of the morning one night out of the year My primary objective in life is not to see how late I can stay up, but getting up in the morning. If I can get up each morning, it is a major accomplishment that I should celebrate with egg ...

Furor was asleep in his hospital cot, his body formulated around the idea of him like a threadbare rag. He wasnt really asleep, but the excesses of the day had driven him into a state of reclusive amnesia where he could find respite from his turbulent thoughts and his bodys torment. He ...

I feel like I have spent most of my adult life sinning and than searching for God to find salvation. What about you are you secure in your faith or are you searching for God also Are you a sinner looking for salvation like me, or a person of faith who is beyond reproach Most of us I thin ...

What you are about to read may challenge your assumptions about the kind of world you live in, and especially the kind of world into which time and events are propelling those who will live through the Great Tribulation spoken of in the last book of the Bible. There are many people who a ...

When Moses was up on the mountain receiving the Ten Commandments, he asked God how shall Moses answer the question, what is his name And God said unto Moses: I AM THAT I AM. What does that mean for us as individualized centers of God We are the first part of that name. We are the "I a ...

Im getting really upset and confused with so many people arguing with each other over whose way to believe in God is the right way. Do you think this is what God wants He loves all of us, doesnt he He must have known what he was doing when he gave us the freedom to choose how to believe ...

As a Christian life and leadership coach, part of my job is to try to get people to see things from a different perspective. That is to step outside of themselves and attempt to view their world differently. And to help them move towards seeing truth for what it really is, rather than ...