The Birth Of A New Understanding (3-part series)
This 3-part series explores how the idea of the Lord’s Second Coming can be understood from the perspective of the doctrines for Spiritual Christianity.
3. A Christianity That Is Spiritual
For Zion’s sake, I will not be silent; and for Jerusalem’s sake, I will not rest; until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning lamp. And nations shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. And you shall be called by a new name which the mouth of Jehovah …
The Word Is The Lord (3-part series)
This 3-part series explores the concepts of our willingness to lay down our perceived sense of self and to work with the Word as the Lord Himself, so that He might restructure, and recreate us into something new. So that our patterns of thinking and feeling might be formed into something heavenly and that what is opposed to this might move from centre stage.
Jesus Tempted In The Wilderness (4-part series)
This 4-part series explores how the three temptations of Jesus by the Devil in the wilderness offer descriptions of our struggles to let go of self interest and make the Lord’s love and wisdom the centre of our life.
The Lord’s Prayer
To take the Lord’s Prayer as something to be recited repetitively reduces it to the very practice of vain repetitions that the Lord warns against. This prayer is the archetypal prayer, it contains everything a person can ask of the Lord because it contains everything that the Lord is able to give to us and …
Easter Reflections (6 short audios)
This 6-part series of 15 minute audio reflections explores the prediction of Jesus bringing forth of Lazarus from out of the grave and of how this speaks to our own awakening by the Word from spiritual sleep, which is essentially spiritual death.
Making The Word Visible As The Lord (2 mins)
True Christian Religion 11[3] Everyone can see that a man’s knowledge of God is his mirror of God, and that those who know nothing about God do not see God in a mirror with its face toward them, but in a mirror with its back toward them; and as this is covered with quicksilver, or …
Cultivating Sensitivity To Our States As We Read (2 mins)
Divine Providence 24. The conjunction of good and truth is provided by the Lord by means of relation; since the quality of a good is known only by its relation to what is less good, and by its contrariety to evil. From this comes all power to perceive and to feel, since from this comes …
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Failing To Be A ‘Better’ Person (5 mins)
Arcana Coelestia 141. Innumerable things might be said about man’s proprium in describing its nature with the corporeal and worldly man, with the spiritual man, and with the celestial man. With the corporeal and worldly man, his proprium is his all, he knows of nothing else than his proprium, and imagines, as before said, that if …
It’s Elephants All The Way Down
What is it about a spiritual body that makes it a substantial body in contrast to a physical body and why does it matter? An exploration of the nature of spiritual substance and how a clearer understanding of this can transform our participation in life.