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Showing posts with label Jesus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jesus. Show all posts
Sunday, January 1, 2023

The mystery of Christ: a book written in our heart

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Scholar Elaine Pagels writes in Why Religion? “When the author of the Gospel of Truth sets out to reveal Paul’s secret teaching, he begins...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

The Christmas story in Matthew 1-2

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The story begins with a genealogy that places Jesus in the line of descent from Abraham and David. An angel in a dream tells Jose...
Saturday, December 24, 2022

The Christmas story in Luke 1-2

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The anonymous gospel attributed to Luke, a missionary colleague of Paul, begins with the story of the birt...
Sunday, December 4, 2022

Resurrection is spiritual not physical

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The New Testament gospels are anonymous. The shortest gospel is attributed to Mark, a colleague of Paul. The earliest ve...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Amazing grace will lead us home

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The Pharisee Saul was persecuting preachers of the Way of Jesus until he was struck blind as "a light from heaven flashed around him....
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Amazing grace: Pagels excerpt #7

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Historian of religion Elaine Pagels begins her book Why Religion? with this personal affirmation: Whe...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

The mystery of Christ in you: Pagels excerpt #5

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Pagels writes in Why Religion? “When the author of the Gospel of Truth sets out to reveal Paul’s secret teaching, he begins by asking, Wha...
Sunday, November 14, 2021

Extraordinary Experiences: On Our Way Home

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I begin my book by relating life-transforming experiences of scientists. After struck by lightning, surgeon Tony Cicoria heard music “from H...
Friday, November 5, 2021

Heaven is an experience in consciousness

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When Jesus tells his disciples that they should be in the world but not of it, his teaching seems unlivable. My physical body anchors me her...
Thursday, November 4, 2021

Heaven is an inward experience and our home

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The notion of heaven keeps things human, and that’s one reason it has survived so long. The image of returning home after we die, resting fr...
Sunday, October 31, 2021

Jesus gives hope and purpose during NDE

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At the time of my experience, I had a very hard life with disease and I had a feeling of disorientation. I was religious, being Catholic, ...
Sunday, October 17, 2021

"I was truly one with all of creation."

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I remember going into the operating room and then I felt myself swimming upward in something that was heavier than air but lighter than wa...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

In NDE learns Jesus had a NDE

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I was a pedestrian pushing a disabled car when it was struck from behind. I was between the cars and the impact was so great it bent the f...
Monday, September 6, 2021

Speaks to the Lord and his deceased father

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I was not physically aware for three days as I was unconscious from the accident. I am told that I was dead on the operating room table for...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Baby with heart defect recalls NDE

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I was a baby. I had been born with a heart defect and I had become weaker and was very sick. I was afraid because I could not breathe. My ...