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The core of our distress over any issue is attachment. The only thing that is keeping us from inner peace is attachment. When we don’t like how something is going or how someone is behaving and we believe it should be different, we are attached to the outcome and not ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Four Winds Living Prophet Series - Special Wed. Evening Serivce with DE Paulk Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Truth is a Journey, Not a Destination Truth is a Journey, Not a Destination 9-19-10Pastor D.E. PaulkOur speaker is the Senior minister of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit on Atlanta, GA. And he says that his ministry is New Thought inclusive! A while ago, Pastor Paulk heard a voice, “Tell me that you don’t know.” It took awhile, but eventually, Pastor Paulk said, “OK, I don’t know.” He said that immediately ideas, people and books flooded his life and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Journey to Inner Peace The Journey to Inner Peace 9-12-10Rev. David AlexanderOur journey to inner peace has people standing in our way! And they are the people who aren’t agreeing with us that we are right! All the inner strife and conflict that we experience with others boils down to one or both of us trying to be right. When we stay attached to our small “piece,” we can’t have peace! Surrendering our attachments is the answer, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Labor of Love Labor of Love 9-5-10Rev. David AlexanderA labor of love is doing something without the motivation of money or personal gain. We love to do it, we would do it anyway!To labor in vain, in contrast, is to work without “spirit.” Our life proceeds from the metaphysical, the “meta” or invisible to the “physical”, the visible. If we are doing anything with great love and passion, the “father within”, the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Synergistic State of Being The Synergistic State of Being 8-29-10Rev. David AlexanderWe’ve been following Practice the Presence Workbook this whole year and this month the focus is on Being. Synchronicity is a multiplicity of things with a similar goal or purpose that have a greater result than just one could create.What are we doing in church? Our soul is longing for a connection, wanting to “go home.” We are “amping” up the vib ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transforming through Community Spiritual Practice Wed. Night Service - Rev. David shares of the power of community when we dedicate to being in spiritual practice together! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Being at Ease Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Being at Ease Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sharing Consciousness Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sharing Consciousness Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn from Yesterday, Live for Today Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn from Yesterday, Live for Today Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Free Your Mind, the Rest Will Follow Rev. David returns for this inspiring 4th of July message! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Free Your Mind, the Rest Will Follow Rev. David returns for this inspiring 4th of July message! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Insular Paradise Guest Speaker Rev. Dr. Harry Morgan Moses Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Insular Paradise Guest Speaker Rev. Dr. Harry Morgan Moses Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's in Every One of Us Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's in Every One of Us Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the One come the Many Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the One come the Many Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arise In ME! Easter Sunday 2010 Easter Sunday 2010 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arise In ME! Easter Sunday 2010 Easter Sunday 2010 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Journey Inward Palm Sunday 2010 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Journey Inward Palm Sunday 2010 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All Things Possible Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All Things Possible Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Gentle Nature of Spirit Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Gentle Nature of Spirit Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I am Worthy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I am Worthy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keep Good Company Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keep Good Company Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Language of Love Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Language of Love Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Love Is the Answer Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Love Is the Answer Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Open to Love Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Open to Love Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiritual View Going Within 2010 Series: “The Spiritual View” January 24, 2010Rev. David AlexanderSeeing those people and things we don’t like or resonate with us as whole and one with us is the spiritual view. Ernest Holmes’ perspective of the spiritual view was that there are spiritual principles that are universal and work for all people at all times.We are raised with the “human view”, which is that we are separate from others and we have to protect what we have and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiritual View Going Within 2010 Series: “The Spiritual View” January 24, 2010Rev. David AlexanderSeeing those people and things we don’t like or resonate with us as whole and one with us is the spiritual view. Ernest Holmes’ perspective of the spiritual view was that there are spiritual principles that are universal and work for all people at all times.We are raised with the “human view”, which is that we are separate from others and we have to protect what we have and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prayerful Decisions Going Within 2010 Series: “Prayerful Decision” January 17, 2010Rev. David Alexander Prayer affirms the goodness of who we are. It is not bargaining with an outside power that might withhold something from us. It is not begging. It is acknowledging and affirming that which is! God moves through us and only shows up through our mind. Supplication. Bargaining and begging is a mental affirmation that we don’t have what we want and are separate from God. Becaus ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prayerful Decisions Going Within 2010 Series: “Prayerful Decision” January 17, 2010Rev. David Alexander Prayer affirms the goodness of who we are. It is not bargaining with an outside power that might withhold something from us. It is not begging. It is acknowledging and affirming that which is! God moves through us and only shows up through our mind. Supplication. Bargaining and begging is a mental affirmation that we don’t have what we want and are separate from God. Becaus ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Deciding Faith Going Within 2010 Series: “A Deciding Faith” January 10, 2010Rev. David AlexanderJudith Wright in her book, The One Decision, says that it is not “I want to do this “so that” …because that statement implies that we are trying to look good to the world, which is an “un-decision.” What we want to say is, “I want to do this because this is right for my life.” An important decision—the one decision.We have all the faith that we are ever going to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Deciding Faith Consectetuer arcu ipsum ornare pellentesque vehicula, in vehicula diam, ornare magna erat felis wisi a risus. Justo fermentum id. Malesuada eleifend, tortor molestie, a fusce a vel et. Mauris at suspendisse, neque aliquam faucibus adipiscing, vivamus in. Wisi mattis leo suscipit nec amet, nisl fermentum tempor ac a, augue in eleifend in venenatis, cras sit id in vestibulum felis in, sed ligula. In sodales suspendisse mauris quam etiam erat, quia tellus convallis eros rhoncus diam orci ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All Things New! “Practice the Presence” Series: “All Things New” January 3, 2010Rev. David AlexanderRev. David paraphrased what Ernest Holmes said 50 years ago:We are expanding as a spiritual movement and when a church is dedicated, we teach and practice our principles. Individual alignment with the divine leads us to an energy of serving others.The cross on the top of this new building will stay there because when it is rightly understood, it has great meaning. The seat of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All Things New! “Practice the Presence” Series: “All Things New” January 3, 2010Rev. David AlexanderRev. David paraphrased what Ernest Holmes said 50 years ago:We are expanding as a spiritual movement and when a church is dedicated, we teach and practice our principles. Individual alignment with the divine leads us to an energy of serving others.The cross on the top of this new building will stay there because when it is rightly understood, it has great meaning. The seat of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Answer Me This? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Answer Me This? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Love Overflowing - Advent week 4 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Love Overflowing - Advent week 4 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joyful Insights - Advent week 3 Advent Series, Wk 3 “Joyful Insights” More notes to come.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joyful Insights - Advent week 3 Advent Series, Wk 3 “Joyful Insights” More notes to come.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Vision of Peace - Advent week 2 Advent Series, Wk 2 “Vision for Peace” We’re beginning a sacred time in our church calendar. We are journeying toward the birth of the Christ, which is a spiritual journal of awe and wonder. We’re awakening something inside ourselves and moving toward an awareness and embodiment of the Christ. Advent is the 1st ceremony on the Christian calendar.All the stories about the birth of Jesus were written at least 60 years after it happened, so it isn’t about the a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Vision of Peace - Advent week 2 Advent Series, Wk 2 “Vision for Peace” We’re beginning a sacred time in our church calendar. We are journeying toward the birth of the Christ, which is a spiritual journal of awe and wonder. We’re awakening something inside ourselves and moving toward an awareness and embodiment of the Christ. Advent is the 1st ceremony on the Christian calendar.All the stories about the birth of Jesus were written at least 60 years after it happened, so it isn’t about the a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gifts in Mind - Advent week 1 Advent week 1 Lectionary - Luke 21:25-36More notes to come.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gifts in Mind - Advent week 1 Gifts In Mind Advent Series, Wk 1 We’re beginning a sacred time in our church calendar. We are journeying toward the birth of the Christ, which is a spiritual journal of awe and wonder. We’re awakening something inside ourselves and moving toward an awareness and embodiment of the Christ.All the stories about the birth of Jesus were written at least 60 years after it happened, so it isn’t about the actual facts around the birth, but the metaphysical interpretatio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Praise It Forward - Practice of Praise Series Praise It Forward November 22, 2009Rev. David AlexanderPart 3 of 3. more notes latter....enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Praise It Forward - Practice of Praise Series Praise It Forward November 22, 2009Rev. David AlexanderPart 3 of 3. more notes latter....enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Praise Now - Practice of Praise Series Praise Now! November 15, 2009Rev. David AlexanderPart 2 of 3. We are focused now on Prraise in the Now moment! Because Now is all there is! more notes latter....enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Praise Now - Practice of Praise Series Practice of Praise Series, Wk 2: “Praise Now” November 15, 2009Rev. David AlexanderWe’re in the 2nd week of a three week series on praise (the activity of gratitude). More than just a good idea—it is actually a quality of being and a vibrational tone. It requires practice. That is the description of praise. Praise can transform our life. The practice of gratitude is at the top of the list of spiritual tools. We started last week with gratitude for our past, wh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Come On IN! - Practice of Praise Series Come On In November 8, 2009Rev. David AlexanderToday, we’re starting a three-week series on gratitude and praise. The vibration of coming into wholeness, when we talk about gratitude, we’re talking about a state of being and praise is gratitude in action—it’s the activity of gratitude. When we’re in gratitude, we’re in the activity of praise. This is a spiritual tool that we can use to make the world a better place.This tool has the possibil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Come On IN! - Practice of Praise Series Come On In November 8, 2009Rev. David AlexanderToday, we’re starting a three-week series on gratitude and praise. The vibration of coming into wholeness, when we talk about gratitude, we’re talking about a state of being and praise is gratitude in action—it’s the activity of gratitude. When we’re in gratitude, we’re in the activity of praise. This is a spiritual tool that we can use to make the world a better place.This tool has the possibil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Principle of Divine Emergence The Principle of Divine Emergence November 1, 2009Rev. David AlexanderSomething wonderful is happening—we see inclusion emerging everywhere. The Divine Presence is creative by nature and it operates through laws. It can only create out of itself. We are each unique and recreate the operation of the Divine. We can only experience good in our life that we sense and accept and embody—then we can express it. The Universe can only do for us what it can do ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Principle of Divine Emergence The Principle of Divine Emergence November 1, 2009Rev. David AlexanderSomething wonderful is happening—we see inclusion emerging everywhere. The Divine Presence is creative by nature and it operates through laws. It can only create out of itself. We are each unique and recreate the operation of the Divine. We can only experience good in our life that we sense and accept and embody—then we can express it. The Universe can only do for us what it can do ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Becoming Receptive to the Divine Can We Talk With God? “Becoming Receptive to the Divine” October 25, 2009Rev. David AlexanderWe relate to God on many levels:The universal—the essence, the Invisible PresenceThe personal—an anthropomorphic picture of GodThe individual—unique in you. We have to cultivate it.We must make peace with the past and move into the indwelling essence of God. We feel this face of God when we are moved or touched by nature, another person, music, etc.There is only One Mind—eve ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Becoming Receptive to the Divine Can We Talk With God? “Becoming Receptive to the Divine” October 25, 2009Rev. David AlexanderWe relate to God on many levels:The universal—the essence, the Invisible PresenceThe personal—an anthropomorphic picture of GodThe individual—unique in you. We have to cultivate it.We must make peace with the past and move into the indwelling essence of God. We feel this face of God when we are moved or touched by nature, another person, music, etc.There is only One Mind—eve ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Are We Talking Can We Talk With God? “What Are We Talking About” October 18, 2009Rev. David Alexander3 faces of God from Ken Wilbur’s work: different aspects of the Infinite.1. 3rd person: Impersonal—infinite—the “is-ness” no gender, behind of all things, that which connects all2. 2nd person: Personification of God: messenger (Jesus or Buddha) or picture of God.3. 1st person: Indwelling essence: essence, divine spark that whelms up inside of us, that is personal just to usErne ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Are We Talking Can We Talk With God? “What Are We Talking About” October 18, 2009Rev. David Alexander3 faces of God from Ken Wilbur’s work: different aspects of the Infinite.1. 3rd person: Impersonal—infinite—the “is-ness” no gender, behind of all things, that which connects all2. 2nd person: Personification of God: messenger (Jesus or Buddha) or picture of God.3. 1st person: Indwelling essence: essence, divine spark that whelms up inside of us, that is personal just to usErne ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can We Talk to God Part 1 of 3Can We Talk With God? October 05, 2009Rev. David AlexanderThe question, “Can we talk with God?”, brings up our relationship to Spirit. We have been told that we can talk “at” God, but can we talk “to” God? We may not have gotten a sense that we could talk to God as we were growing up—maybe we thought that we were doing it wrong. For many of us, we have “traded up” to a new idea that we could have a relationship with God. Many ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can We Talk to God Part 1 of 3Can We Talk With God? October 05, 2009Rev. David AlexanderThe question, “Can we talk with God?”, brings up our relationship to Spirit. We have been told that we can talk “at” God, but can we talk “to” God? We may not have gotten a sense that we could talk to God as we were growing up—maybe we thought that we were doing it wrong. For many of us, we have “traded up” to a new idea that we could have a relationship with God. Many ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who Knows? The Principle of Divine Guidance Who Knows? June 7, 2009Rev. David AlexanderThere is something within us that does know. Divine guidance is always available. “ Nothing is more important than remembering that we are immersed in limitless wisdom” Ernest HolmesWe all have an internal GPS. A mechanical GPS in our car will recalibrate our direction when we change our direction. Our internal “GPS” will do the same. All we have to do is call upon the wisdom within us. The gift o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who Knows? The Principle of Divine Guidance Who Knows? June 7, 2009Rev. David AlexanderThere is something within us that does know. Divine guidance is always available. “ Nothing is more important than remembering that we are immersed in limitless wisdom” Ernest HolmesWe all have an internal GPS. A mechanical GPS in our car will recalibrate our direction when we change our direction. Our internal “GPS” will do the same. All we have to do is call upon the wisdom within us. The gift o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where is the Law when you Need It? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where is the Law when you Need It? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Backed by the Power of the Universe Backed by the Power of the Universe May 24, 2009Rev. David AlexanderWe have access to a Universal Power. We can get tripped up by the events in our life…our choices may be overwhelming . We can think that we are alone, over our heads. In those thoughts we cannot handle things from a most powerful place. The power of the universe is at our disposal. Decoration Day (Memorial day was originally about honoring Civil War Veterans. The date was chose because ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Backed by the Power of the Universe Backed by the Power of the Universe May 24, 2009Rev. David AlexanderWe have access to a Universal Power. We can get tripped up by the events in our life…our choices may be overwhelming . We can think that we are alone, over our heads. In those thoughts we cannot handle things from a most powerful place. The power of the universe is at our disposal. Decoration Day (Memorial day was originally about honoring Civil War Veterans. The date was chose because ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Power of Giving: Give Up, Give in! The Power of Giving: Give Up/Give In May 17, 2009Rev. David AlexanderThis is the last day of the 2009-2010 Pledge Campaign.As we participate in life—giving our energy and attention to ourselves and others, we therefore create a greater good in our lives.Any idea that keeps me from being open and receptive to abundance in our life is something to give up.Visioning is a spiritual practice that elicits and taps into a greater wisdom, a divine intelligence. We ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Power of Giving: Give Up, Give in! The Power of Giving: Give Up/Give In May 17, 2009Rev. David AlexanderThis is the last day of the 2009-2010 Pledge Campaign.As we participate in life—giving our energy and attention to ourselves and others, we therefore create a greater good in our lives.Any idea that keeps me from being open and receptive to abundance in our life is something to give up.Visioning is a spiritual practice that elicits and taps into a greater wisdom, a divine intelligence. We ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Power of Giving: How Much Can I Give? The Power of Giving: How Much Can I Give May 10, 2009Rev. David AlexanderWe continue with the 2009-2010 Pledge Campaign. We do our campaign in the spring because it the time to plant seeds—to prepare for a new harvest. How we give is based in the energetic aspect and asking the question: “Am I willing?” Sometimes that commitment scares us. And we all have something to give. And we are given signs, information for our next level of giving.We want to k ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Power of Giving: How Much Can I Give? The Power of Giving: How Much Can I Give May 10, 2009Rev. David AlexanderWe continue with the 2009-2010 Pledge Campaign. We do our campaign in the spring because it the time to plant seeds—to prepare for a new harvest. How we give is based in the energetic aspect and asking the question: “Am I willing?” Sometimes that commitment scares us. And we all have something to give. And we are given signs, information for our next level of giving.We want to k ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Power of Giving: To Whom Can I Give? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Power of Giving: To Whom Can I Give? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Power of Giving: What Can I Give? The Power of Giving: Teen Sunday April 26, 2009Kristin McGuirkWe give because we want to be part of the whole. We give out of selflessness rather than selfishness. Our job is to take care of ourselves so that we can give out of wholeness. Our job is to be a vehicle.There are 3 places where we spend our time:1. Family and home life2. Work or school3. Community—spiritualHow do we create community? How do we support financially, with our ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Power of Giving: What Can I Give? The Power of Giving: Teen Sunday April 26, 2009Kristin McGuirkWe give because we want to be part of the whole. We give out of selflessness rather than selfishness. Our job is to take care of ourselves so that we can give out of wholeness. Our job is to be a vehicle.There are 3 places where we spend our time:1. Family and home life2. Work or school3. Community—spiritualHow do we create community? How do we support financially, with our ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Power of Giving: Why I Give The Power of Giving April 19, 2009Rev. David AlexanderWe start the 2009-2010 Pledge Campaign today. We do our campaign in the spring because it the time to plant seeds—to prepare for a new harvest. We’re receiving value from our spiritual community. We are asked to participate at the level of consciousness that gets our attention. In the general church cultures, there is an idea that 20 % of the people give 80 % of the funds to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Power of Giving: Why I Give The Power of Giving April 19, 2009Rev. David AlexanderWe start the 2009-2010 Pledge Campaign today. We do our campaign in the spring because it the time to plant seeds—to prepare for a new harvest. We’re receiving value from our spiritual community. We are asked to participate at the level of consciousness that gets our attention. In the general church cultures, there is an idea that 20 % of the people give 80 % of the funds to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Thought for Easter A New Thought for Easter April 12, 2009Rev. David AlexanderWe are at the peak of the unfolding story of Jesus’ experience on earth—the Easter experience. Clearly, something happened in the life of Jesus and it is not an accident that the church placed this event during spring, when rebirth and resurrection is apparent in nature. There is an ancient energy of new life in all creation.The interesting thing about Jesus’ death is that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Thought for Easter A New Thought for Easter April 12, 2009Rev. David AlexanderWe are at the peak of the unfolding story of Jesus’ experience on earth—the Easter experience. Clearly, something happened in the life of Jesus and it is not an accident that the church placed this event during spring, when rebirth and resurrection is apparent in nature. There is an ancient energy of new life in all creation.The interesting thing about Jesus’ death is that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Palm Sunday 2009 Palm Sunday April 5, 2009Rev. David AlexanderWe are in the season of Easter, which is part of the overall season of our lives that are symbols of our journey of spiritual growth and development. • We start with Advent, a hopeful journey, it is an embarking and the embodiment or the remembering to wake up• Next comes Christmas, when the infant is born—it is the birthing of what we know, our divine son-ship• Epiph ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Palm Sunday 2009 Palm Sunday April 5, 2009Rev. David AlexanderWe are in the season of Easter, which is part of the overall season of our lives that are symbols of our journey of spiritual growth and development. • We start with Advent, a hopeful journey, it is an embarking and the embodiment or the remembering to wake up• Next comes Christmas, when the infant is born—it is the birthing of what we know, our divine son-ship• Epiph ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A World Calls to Courage The World Calls to Courage March 22, 2009Rev. David AlexanderFocus for the year: Courting the Divine in 2009: A Year of Spiritual LiberationToday is the eighth week of the Season for Nonviolence, a 64 day period of time, beginning with the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s death on January 30 and ending with the anniversary of Martin Luther Kings, Jr’s assassination date of April 4. It is a time to focus on peace in our personal and collective lives ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A World Calls to Courage The World Calls to Courage March 22, 2009Rev. David AlexanderFocus for the year: Courting the Divine in 2009: A Year of Spiritual LiberationToday is the eighth week of the Season for Nonviolence, a 64 day period of time, beginning with the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s death on January 30 and ending with the anniversary of Martin Luther Kings, Jr’s assassination date of April 4. It is a time to focus on peace in our personal and collective lives ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Closer Walk with Thee A Closer Walk with Thee March 15, 2009Rev. David AlexanderFocus for the year: Courting the Divine in 2009: A Year of Spiritual LiberationToday is the seventh week of the Season for Nonviolence, a 64 day period of time, beginning with the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s death on January 30 and ending with the anniversary of Martin Luther Kings, Jr’s assassination date of April 4. It is a time to focus on peace in our personal and collective lives.W ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website There's Something About Women There’s Something Abut Women March 8, 2009Rev. David AlexanderFocus for the year: Courting the Divine in 2009: A Year of Spiritual LiberationToday is the sixth week of the Season for Nonviolence, a 64 day period of time, beginning with the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s death on January 30 and ending with the anniversary of Martin Luther Kings, Jr’s assassination date of April 4. It is a time to focus on peace in our personal and collective liv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keeping the Faith Keeping the Faith March 1, 2009Rev. David AlexanderFocus for the year: Courting the Divine in 2009: A Year of Spiritual LiberationToday is the fifth week of the Season for Nonviolence, a 64 day period of time, beginning with the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s death on January 30 and ending with the anniversary of Martin Luther Kings, Jr’s assassination date of April 4. It is a time to focus on peace in our personal and collective lives.To those w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Natural Order of Abundance The Natural Order of Abundance February 22, 2009Rev. Dr. Harry Morgan Moses Focus for the year: Courting the Divine in 2009: A Year of Spiritual LiberationToday is the fourth week of the Season for Nonviolence, a 64 day period of time, beginning with the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s death on January 30 and ending with the anniversary of Martin Luther Kings, Jr’s assassination date of April 4. It is a time to focus on peace in our personal and c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Love is the Way Love is the Way February 15, 2009Rev. Dr. Sally Rutis Focus for the year: Courting the Divine in 2009: A Year of Spiritual LiberationToday is the third week of the Season for Nonviolence, a 64 day period of time, beginning with the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s death on January 30 and ending with the anniversary of Martin Luther Kings, Jr’s assassination date of April 4. It is a time to focus on peace in our personal and collective lives.We’r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Walk of the Global Heart The Walk of the Global Heart February 8, 2009Rev. David Alexander Focus for the year: Courting the Divine in 2009: A Year of Spiritual LiberationToday is the second week of the Season for Nonviolence, a 64 day period of time, beginning with the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s death on January 30 and ending with the anniversary of Martin Luther Kings, Jr’s assassination date of April 4. It is a time to focus on peace in our personal and collective lives.Spiritual liberty is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Search for a Nonviolent Future The Search for a Nonviolent Future February 1, 2009Rev. David AlexanderFocus for the year: Courting the Divine in 2009: A Year of Spiritual LiberationToday begins the Season for Nonviolence, a 64 day period of time, beginning with the anniversary of Mahatma Ghandi’s death on January 30 and ending with the anniversary of Martin Luther Kings, Jr.’s assassination date of April 4. It is a time to focus on peace in our personal and collective lives.Nonviolence and peace doesn’t happen b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Back to Basics 2009: How to Use It Back to Basics: How To Use It (Week 4) January 25, 2009Rev. David AlexanderFocus for the year: Courting the Divine in 2009: A Year of Spiritual LiberationThe Thing Itself (Week 1)The idea that we are immersed in a“universal something” or the “ground of all being” is describing the thing itself. We’re created out of this essence. When the Universal presence wanted to know itself, it created out of itself—i.e the “Big Bang.” The universal became conscious of itself and we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Back to Basics 2009: What It Does Back to Basics: What It Does (Week 3) January 18, 2009Rev. David AlexanderFocus for the year: Courting the Divine in 2009: A Year of Spiritual LiberationThe Thing Itself (Week 1)The idea that we are immersed in a“universal something” or the “ground of all being” is describing the thing itself. We’re created out of this essence. When the Universal presence wanted to know itself, it created out of itself—i.e the “Big Bang.” The universal became conscious of itself and we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Back to Basics 2009: The Thing Itself Back to Basics: The Thing Itself January 4, 2009Rev. David AlexanderWe enter a New Year with an focus for the entire year:Courting the Divine in 2009: A Year of Spiritual LiberationWe begin with an intention and go back to the basics, to the fundamentals of our belief system. A firm grasp on the fundamentals will support us well.The Thing Itself comes from the question: What is God?God is first cause, spirit, mind, the invisible essence, the ultimate stuff of the universe, the power bac ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meditation from 12.14.08 A wonderful and peaceful Christmas meditation on the birth of the Christ Presence within you. Featuring the New Thought Center for Spiritual Living Choir singing"What Child Is This"and Rev. David leading the meditation. enjoy. peace to you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Look at Christmas: The Awakening Notes from Rev. David for 12.21.08 Sermon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Look at Christmas: Rise Up Shepherd A New Look at Christmas: Rise Up Shepherd December 14, 2008Rev. David AlexanderAs we continue in Advent, we pause and take a conscious look at the Christmas story so that we can pull meaning and value, insights and revelations from a tradition that may not fit for us any more.When we take away the dogma of the Christmas story, we are left with a living story! It doesn’t destroy the journey, but rather, adds richness to it.The Christmas story, as written in the Gospels, reflected what the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Look at Christmas: All the Gifts I Bring A New Look at Christmas: All the Gifts I Bring December 7, 2008Rev. David AlexanderAs we continue in Advent, we pause and take a conscious look at the Christmas story so that we can pull meaning and value, insights and revelations from a tradition that may not fit for us any more.When we take away the dogma of the Christmas story, we are left with a living story! It doesn’t destroy the journey, but rather, adds richness to it.Over the years, traditions from many cultures have brought us ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Look at Christmas: The Journey Begins A New Look at Christmas: The Journey Begins November 30, 2008Rev. David AlexanderOn this first day of Advent, we start a series based on the idea that all of us are longing for what is real. This longing is universal, a thread that runs through all faith traditions.When one person has an awakening, we create story and tradition around that person, in hopes that we, too, will have an awakening.This awakening happened for Jesus and so the story of his birth was created to coincide with his e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Noble Purpose Series Conclusion Noble Purpose: Week 8 November 16, 2008Rev. David AlexanderIn this series, based on the book, Noble Purpose, by Barry Herrmann, we�re looking for ways to identify and express our noble purpose. Our life purpose is embedded in us all. We go through stages to identify and develop it:Stage 1: Initiating: Start or begin. Life is always initiating in us. We must be willing to go through what is required. Our own internal process is to recognize that this is a friendly universe and not l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Letting Go Nobel Purpose: Letting Go, Week 7 November 9, 2008Rev. David AlexanderIn this series, based on the book, Noble Purpose, by Barry Herrmann, we�re looking for ways to identify and express our noble purpose. Our life purpose is embedded in us all. We go through stages to identify and develop it:Stage 1: Initiating: Start or begin. Life is always initiating in us. We must be willing to go through what is required. Our own internal process is to recognize that this is a friendly universe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Celebrating Nobel Purpose: Celebrating, Week 6 November 2, 2008Rev. David AlexanderIn this series, based on the book, Noble Purpose, by Barry Herrmann, we�re looking for ways to identify and express our noble purpose. Our life purpose is embedded in us all. We go through stages to identify and develop it:Stage 1: Initiating: Start or begin. Life is always initiating in us. We must be willing to go through what is required. Our own internal process is to recognize that this is a friendly univers ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Claiming Nobel Purpose: Claiming, Week 5 October 26, 2008Rev. David AlexanderIn this series, we�re looking for ways to identify and express our noble purpose. Our life purpose is embedded in us all. We go through stages to identify and develop it:Stage 1: Initiating: start or begin Life is always initiating in us. We must be willing to go through what is required. Our own internal process is to recognize that this is a friendly universe and not listen to the �yah, but�s�.Stage 2: Visioning:We ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Visioning Nobel Purpose: Visioning, Week 4 October 19, 2008Rev. David AlexanderIn this series, we�re looking for ways to identify and express our noble purpose. Life without purpose is depressingly haphazard because we�re dealing with the �stuff� of life. We get off track and lose sight of what�s importantOur life purpose is embedded in us all. We go through stages to identify and develop it:Stage 1: Initiating: start or begin Life is always initiating in us. We must be willing to go through w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Initiating Noble Purpose: Initiating October 12, 2008 Rev. David AlexanderToday, we are in week 3 of 8 based on the book, Noble Purpose.We each have a noble purpose that we were each born with!! We want to cultivate the awareness of why we�re here. God is all there is and must have a purpose and we are each one with God, so we each have a purpose as well. The work we do is a step on the path to our purpose and our job is to create an environment in which our purpose can grow. Our cons ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bounded Self Noble Purpose: The Bounded Self September 28, 2008 Rev. David AlexanderToday, we are in week 2 of 8 based on the book, Noble Purpose.Last week, Mekyla Robinson talked about our purpose lying deep within us, planted at the core of our being. The dictionary defines noble as: exalted in character or ideas of conduct, titled, having excellent qualities and abilitiesThe dictionary defines purpose as: an aim or goal or desire, what something is used for, an anticipated outcome that i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Igniting Extraordinary Passion Igniting Extraordinary Passion for Life September 28, 2008 Youth Sunday with Mekyla RobinsonMekyla started by telling us that the first chapter in the book, Nobel Purpose by Barry Herman, which we will be studying for the next 8 weeks is entitled-�Take this Job and Love It!� As a 15 year old sophomore in high school, she questions, �What is my job?� She asked all of us�when we were young, what did we want to be? She said�there are so many options! And there is a noble purpose. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I Plan, God Laughs I Plan, God Laughs - September 21st 2008Guest Speaker Jody Stevenson will offer an opportunity to dive deeply into the subject of Divine Discontent and trusting the process as well as how we can laugh along with God when it show up brilliantly and oh so different than what we had planned.Rev. Jody Stevenson has been an ordained Religious Science Minister since 1991. As a speaker, destiny coach and writer, she specializes in the subjects of balance, destiny and fulfilled dreams. She has au ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stump the Minister - 11AM Stump the Minister Day September 14, 2008 Rev. David AlexanderQuestion and Answers with Rev. David Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stump the Minister - 9AM Stump the Minister Day September 14, 2008 Rev. David AlexanderQuestion and Answers with Rev. David Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live In Me: 4th Anniversary Celebration Live In Me September 7, 2008 Rev. David Alexander�Live in me� is an affirmation and when we ask the question, �What things are trying to live in me?� we recognize that there are things that we�re trying to create purposefully. And there are other things, like old beliefs and patterns and ideas that are competing for control in our life. We may be carrying around old baggage like ideas of lack and limitation and not being good enough and isolation and abandonment�the list goes on a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Earth Series: Chapter 9 Discovery of Inner Purpose August 31, 2008 Rev. David AlexanderThis week is the 9th in a 9 week series on A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle.Tolle talks about our �ego-identification� problem and that we�re here to recognizethat the New Heaven is the emergence of transformed consciousness and the New Earth is the reflection/revelation of the transformed consciousness in the physical realm. We�ve talked about the many aspects of the ego and �breaking free� from the ego and becoming an obse ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Earth Series: Chapter 8 Discovery of Inner Space August 24, 2008 Rev. David AlexanderThis week is the 8th in a 9 week series on A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle.Tolle talks about our �ego-identification� problem and that we�re here to recognize that the New Heaven is the emergence of transformed consciousness and the New Earth is the reflection/revelation of the transformed consciousness in the physical realm. We�ve talked about the many aspects of the ego and �breaking free� from the ego and becoming an o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Earth Series: Chapter 7 Finding Who You Really Are August 17, 2008 Rev. David AlexanderThis week is the 7th in a 9 week series on A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle.Tolle talks about our �ego-identification� problem and that we�re here for recognize that the New Heaven is the emergence of transformed consciousness and the New Earth is the reflection/revelation of the transformed consciousness in the physical realm. Last week we talked about �breaking free� from the ego and becoming an observer of what we are ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Earth Series: Chapter 6 Breaking Free August 10, 2008 Rev. Dr. Marcia SuttonThis week is the 6th in a 9 week series on A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. This week is an important week. We�ve been preparing, up until now, to receive the message that we can be set free from conditions and difficulties because we are connected to the living Presence of God.We have been talking about the �pain body�, which we each have, and which was created as a survival strategy in our bodies. It is a field of energy ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Forgiveness Day Forgiveness August 3, 2008 Rev. Dr. Noel McInnisThe first Sunday in August is International Forgiveness Day and today, we�ll focus on forgiveness. The key is recognizing that our challenges are really done to ourselves. We are each and incarnation of a beneficial presence and no one else can make us unhappy. Our experience of the world is of our own creation. If we dislike/hate another person, we are really hating or disliking a part of ourselves.There are reasons to for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Earth Series: Chapter 5 The Pain Body - Chapter 5 of A New Earth by E. TolleJuly 20, 2008Rev. David Alexander Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Earth Series: Chapter 4 The Many Faces of EgoJuly 20, 2008Rev. David Alexander Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Earth Series: Chapter 3 The Core of Ego July 13, 2008 Rev. David AlexanderToday, we continue with the second week of the 9 week summer series on the book, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life Purpose by Eckhart Tolle. We began our exploration of A New Earth by recognizing that there are parts of ourselves of which we are unaware. We identify with our human selves to the exclusion of our core identity.The ego is natural and is the self-differentiating part of our development. Awareness begins to op ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Earth Series: Chapter 2 Ego, the Current State of Humanity July 6, 2008 Rev. David AlexanderToday, we continue with the second week of the 9 week summer series on the book, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life Purpose by Eckhart Tolle. We began our exploration of A New Earth by recognizing that there are parts of ourselves of which we are unaware. We identify with our human selves to the exclusion of our core identity.The ego is natural and is the self-differentiating part of our development. Our chal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Earth Series: Chapter 1 The Flowering of Human Consciousness June 29, 2008 Rev. David AlexanderToday, we begin a 9 week summer series on the book, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life Purpose by Eckhart Tolle. We are beginning our exploration of A New Earth by recognizing that we are talking about being aware of your awareness, which opens us to being present in the now moment. Our goal is to lose the density of our human minds and become more transparent so that more light can be revealed.The first t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Moses Code and You The Moses Code and You June 22, 2008 Rev. Dr. Harry Morgan MosesSpecial guest and dear friend Harry Morgan Moses teaches on the Moses Code that is within us all. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The World As You See It The World As You See It June 15, 2008 Rev. Dr. James Golden9AM Service: What could I tell you that you don�t already know�we really have all the secrets now�and don�t know it! The world is as you see it�as within, so without. These aren�t new spiritual truths�you reap what you sow. Swami Mutananda say that our purpose is to work for happiness and reduce suffering in the world.The challenge is that it�s easy to be moved off our spiritual path and Heaven and Hell are a place ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Beauty of God's Creation 11AM The Beauty of God�s Creation�Interfaith Service with Baha�i Community June 8, 2008 Rev. David Alexander and Henri CrossHenri Cross, a member of the Baha�i Community of Tigard, talked about how Baha�i is a world religion that has the goal to unite all people and celebrates the oneness of all mankind. He said that Baha�i�s are �found�, they don�t �join.� The pivotal point of Baha�i is the celebration of Oneness and the essence of a follower�s faith is the deeds that they do.In Baha�i, m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Beauty of God's Creation 9AM service The Beauty of God�s Creation�Interfaith Service with Baha�i Community June 8, 2008 Rev. David Alexander and Henri CrossHenri Cross, a member of the Baha�i Community of Tigard, talked about how Baha�i is a world religion that has the goal to unite all people and celebrates the oneness of all mankind. He said that Baha�i�s are �found�, they don�t �join.� The pivotal point of Baha�i is the celebration of Oneness and the essence of a follower�s faith is the deeds that they do.In Baha�i, m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Graduation Celebration 2008 Today we honor our high school graduates as well as our Adult Education Graduates. Todays message looks at the power we each possess to choose this day as a day of graduation to a new level of living! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Memorial Day: They Live in You 5 gifts of An Abundant Life-Celebration Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5 Gifts of Abundance: Celebration 5 gifts of An Abundant Life-Celebration Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5 Gifts of Abundance: Celebration 5 gifts of An Abundant Life-Celebration Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5 Gifts of Abundance: Surrender 5 gifts of An Abundant Life- Surrender Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5 Gifts of Abundance: Surrender 5 gifts of An Abundant Life- Surrender Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5 Gifts of Abundance: Tithing 5 gifts of An Abundant Life-Tithing Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5 Gifts of Abundance: Tithing 5 gifts of An Abundant Life-Tithing Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5 Gifts of Abundance: Forgiveness 5 gifts of An Abundant Life-Forgiveness April 27, 2008 Rev. David AlexanderToday is the third week of our Spirit of Home Program. It�s a pledging program that we hold in the spring because it�s the time for planting seeds. We�re using Diane Harmony�s book as our focus.To review, the first of the five gifts is GRATITUDE. Gratitude is the great �shifter� of energy. We shift our awareness and shift our attention and our energy shifts! Gratitude moves us out of fear and anger and remi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5 Gifts of an Abundant Life: Intention 5 gifts of An Abundant Life-Intention April 20, 2008 Rev. David AlexanderToday is the second week of our Spirit of Home Program. It�s a pledging program that we hold in the spring because it�s the time for planting seeds.The first of the five gifts is GRATITUDEWe can�t complain or be anger or bitter and be in gratitude at the same time. An attitude of gratitude brings more good into our lives. Gratitude is the great multiplier. When Jesus blessed the bread and fish to feed the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5 Gifts of an Abundant Life: Intention 5 gifts of An Abundant Life-Intention April 20, 2008Rev. David AlexanderToday is the second week of our Spirit of Home Program. It�s a pledging program that we hold in the spring because it�s the time for planting seeds.The first of the five gifts is GRATITUDEWe can�t complain or be anger or bitter and be in gratitude at the same time. An attitude of gratitude brings more good into our lives. Gratitude is the great multiplier. When Jesus blessed the bread and fish to feed the ... 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Dr. Sally Rutis Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peace in the Heart, Peace in the Family, Peace in the World Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peace in the Heart, Peace in the Family, Peace in the World Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Attractive Power of Peace Within The Attractive Power of Peace Within March 23, 2008 Rev. David AlexanderWe continue with the Season for Nonviolence which is a period of 64 days, beginning January 30 and extending until April 4, which marks the day of Gandhi�s assassination 60 years ago and ending on the anniversary of Martin Luther King�s assassination 40 years ago. The focus during the Season is to spread the message of nonviolence around the world and the celebration is now recognized by the UN, schools a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Attractive Power of Peace Within The Attractive Power of Peace Within March 23, 2008Rev. David AlexanderWe continue with the Season for Nonviolence which is a period of 64 days, beginning January 30 and extending until April 4, which marks the day of Gandhi�s assassination 60 years ago and ending on the anniversary of Martin Luther King�s assassination 40 years ago. The focus during the Season is to spread the message of nonviolence around the world and the celebration is now recognized by the UN, schools an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Palm Sunday: Cultivating Compassion Cultivating Compassion March 16, 2008 Rev. David AlexanderWe continue with the Season for Nonviolence which is a period of 64 days, beginning January 30 and extending until April 4, which marks the day of Gandhi�s assassination 60 years ago and ending on the anniversary of Martin Luther King�s assassination 40 years ago. The focus during the Season is to spread the message of nonviolence around the world and the celebration is now recognized by the UN, schools and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Palm Sunday: Cultivating Compassion Cultivating Compassion March 16, 2008Rev. David AlexanderWe continue with the Season for Nonviolence which is a period of 64 days, beginning January 30 and extending until April 4, which marks the day of Gandhi�s assassination 60 years ago and ending on the anniversary of Martin Luther King�s assassination 40 years ago. The focus during the Season is to spread the message of nonviolence around the world and the celebration is now recognized by the UN, schools and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A World of Kindness A World of Kindness March 9, 2008 Rev. Dr. Sally RutisWe continue with the Season for Nonviolence which is a period of 64 days, beginning January 30 and extending until April 4, which marks the day of Gandhi�s assassination 60 years ago and ending on the anniversary of Martin Luther King�s assassination 40 years ago. The focus during the Season is to spread the message of nonviolence around the world and the celebration is now recognized by the UN, school ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A World of Kindness A World of Kindness March 9, 2008Rev. Dr. Sally RutisWe continue with the Season for Nonviolence which is a period of 64 days, beginning January 30 and extending until April 4, which marks the day of Gandhi�s assassination 60 years ago and ending on the anniversary of Martin Luther King�s assassination 40 years ago. The focus during the Season is to spread the message of nonviolence around the world and the celebration is now recognized by the UN, schools ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Belong to the Future Belong To The Future February 17, 2008 Sharif AbdullahWe continue with the Season for Nonviolence which is a period of 64 day, beginning January 30 and extending until April 4, which marks the day of Gandhi�s assassination 60 years ago and ending on the anniversary of Martin Luther King�s assassination 40 years ago. The focus during the Season is to spread the message of nonviolence around the world and the celebration is now recognized by the UN, schools and communities.One of the a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Belong to the Future Belong To The Future February 17, 2008Sharif AbdullahWe continue with the Season for Nonviolence which is a period of 64 day, beginning January 30 and extending until April 4, which marks the day of Gandhi�s assassination 60 years ago and ending on the anniversary of Martin Luther King�s assassination 40 years ago. The focus during the Season is to spread the message of nonviolence around the world and the celebration is now recognized by the UN, schools and communities.One of the as ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Covenant of Peace A New Covenant of Peace February 10, 2008 Rev. David AlexanderWe continue with the Season for Nonviolence which is a period of 64 day, beginning January 30 and extending until April 4, which marks the day of Gandhi�s assassination 60 years ago and ending on the anniversary of Martin Luther King�s assassination 40 years ago. The focus during the Season is to spread the message of nonviolence around the world and the celebration is now recognized by the UN, schools and communities.Toda ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Covenant of Peace A New Covenant of Peace February 10, 2008Rev. David AlexanderWe continue with the Season for Nonviolence which is a period of 64 day, beginning January 30 and extending until April 4, which marks the day of Gandhi�s assassination 60 years ago and ending on the anniversary of Martin Luther King�s assassination 40 years ago. The focus during the Season is to spread the message of nonviolence around the world and the celebration is now recognized by the UN, schools and communities.Today ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hearing the Call Hearing the Call February 3, 2008 Rev. David AlexanderToday, we open the Season for Nonviolence which is a period of 64 day, beginning January 30 and extending until April 4, which marks the day of Gandhi�s assassination 60 years ago and ending on the anniversary of Martin Luther King�s assassination 40 years ago. The focus during the Season is to spread the message of nonviolence around the world a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hearing the Call Hearing the Call February 3, 2008Rev. David AlexanderToday, we open the Season for Nonviolence which is a period of 64 day, beginning January 30 and extending until April 4, which marks the day of Gandhi�s assassination 60 years ago and ending on the anniversary of Martin Luther King�s assassination 40 years ago. The focus during the Season is to spread the message of nonviolence around the world an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Equality Sabbath Equality Sabbath January 27, 2008Rev. David AlexanderThis is a day of sharing solidarity for gay, lesbian, transsexual and bisexual peoples. Today, we restate our role as a New Thought church as being an inclusive community. Over 85 congregations around Oregon and SW Washington are celebrating the victories and upholding those who have experienced injustice because of their sexual orientation. Inj ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Equality Sabbath Equality Sabbath January 27, 2008Rev. David AlexanderThis is a day of sharing solidarity for gay, lesbian, transsexual and bisexual peoples. Today, we restate our role as a New Thought church as being an inclusive community. Over 85 congregations around Oregon and SW Washington are celebrating the victories and upholding those who have experienced injustice because of their sexual orientation. Inj ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Let Your Life Speak week 3 Let Your Life Speak, Pt. 3 January 20, 2008 Rev. David AlexanderIn Week 1 we talked about how we�re living our life. Parker Palmer, in his book, Let Your Life Speak, says that, rather than asking the question, �How am I living my life?,� the better question is, �Is the life that I�m living the life that wants to live through me?� In Week 2, we were reminded that we are to listen for guidance rather than just set goals and �tell� life what ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Let Your Life Speak week 3 Let Your Life Speak, Pt. 3 January 20, 2008Rev. David AlexanderIn Week 1 we talked about how we�re living our life. Parker Palmer, in his book, Let Your Life Speak, says that, rather than asking the question, �How am I living my life?,� the better question is, �Is the life that I�m living the life that wants to live through me?�In Week 2, we were reminded that we are to listen for guidance rather than just set goals and�tell� life what we� ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Good to Great in 2008 Let Your Life Speak, Pt. 2, �Good to Great� January 13, 2008 Rev. David AlexanderToday our focus is on �Good to Great in 2008�Parker Palmer, in his book, Let Your Life Speak, says that, rather than asking the question, �How am I living my life?,� the better question is, �Is the life that I�m living the life that wants to live through me?� What are we doing with our lives? There is a life that wants to come through you. We are to listen fo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Let Your Life Speak Let Your Life Speak January 6, 2008 Rev. David AlexanderAs we enter the New Year, it�s easy to get wrapped up n all the �shoulds� we create fro ourselves with New Year�s resolutions. Rather than stay in that �shouldy� place, it is better to ask ourselves, �What is trying to emerge in me?�Parker Palmer, in his book, Let Your Life Speak, says that, rather than asking the question, �How am I living my life?,� ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Releasing and Embracing Releasing and Embracing December 30, 2007 Rev. David AlexanderBefore the New Year, it is time for reflection and asking the question, �What is my life going to be like?� Releasing and embracing happens all the time, not just at the beginning of the New Year, because we must release in order to embrace something new.Howard Thurman, Martin Luther King, Jr�s mentor, said that what happens after Christmas, after all the a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Journey to the Sacred Heart: The Gathering Journey to the Sacred Heart�the Gathering December 23, 2007 Rev. David Alexander Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Journey to the Sacred Heart: The Anticipation Journey to the Sacred Heart�the anticipation December 16, 2007 Rev. David AlexanderDuring this Christmas season, we are deepening our experience of our relationship with the Christ of our being.We began this journey with an understanding that we all start out with a magical and mystical understanding of the stories that are part of our heritage. Stories pull us forward and help us move deeper in our own spiritual understanding. Stories were always intended to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Journey to the Sacred Heart: The Longing Journey to the Sacred Heart�the Longing December 9, 2007 Rev. David AlexanderDuring this Christmas season, we are deepening our experience of our relationship with the Christ of our being.There is a longing that we all have for the heart of our being, where all good lies. That longing is for the light, the awareness that we know is at our center to be revealed. The longing is for wholeness, to be loved and comforted, to be complete, to be successful, for fightin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Journey to the Sacred Heart: The Longing Journey to the Sacred Heart�the Longing December 9, 2007Rev. David AlexanderDuring this Christmas season, we are deepening our experience of our relationship with the Christ of our being.There is a longing that we all have for the heart of our being, where all good lies. That longing is for the light, the awareness that we know is at our center to be revealed. The longing is for wholeness, to be loved and comforted, to be complete, to be successful, for fighting ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Journey to the Sacred Heart: The Beginning Journey to the Sacred Heart�the beginning December 2, 2007Rev. David AlexanderThe point of the Christmas season is to have a deepening experience, a spiritual awakening, and a recognition of the sacredness of Christmas.The light of Jesus, his heart, drew people to him and churches have been built over the centuries to try to emulate the beauty of his heart message. So, we journey to the sacred heart in the next four weeks.Stories have been the tradition for eon ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prayer Chest Week 4:Prayer is Answered When You Welcome Everything The Prayer Chest Series Begins (week 4 or 4) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prayer Chest Week 3:Prayer is Answered When You Listen The Prayer Chest Series Begins (week 3 or 4) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prayer Chest Week 2:Prayer is Answered Through You The Prayer Chest Series Begins (week 2 or 4) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prayer Chest Week 1: One Mind, One Heart, One Prayer The Prayer Chest Series Begins (week 1 or 4) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Count Me In...for Abundance Count Me In�for Abundance October 21, 2007Rev. David AlexanderThis is the second in a three week series focused on how we come together as community and what is emerging in our community. This�Count Me In� program is a response from the September Community Meeting in which a question was asked about what it takes to create community and how we can each be a part.Everyone is being invited to build community through getting involved in volunteering, coming to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Count Me In...for Wholeness Count Me In�for Wholeness October 14, 2007Rev. David AlexanderThe next three weeks will be focused on how we come together as community and what is emerging in our community. This�Count Me In� program is a response from the September Community Meeting in which a question was asked about what it takes to create community and how we can each be a part.Over the next three weeks, everyone will be invited to build community through getting involved in volunteerin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I AM in the New ERA I Am in the New Era October 7, 2007Harry Morgan Moses, D.D.Truth always transcends any context that presents it. Truth belongs to everyone, wherever it comes from. We have an innate capacity to discern truth. The truth makes us feel good. That is why you feel better when leaving church.NewTthought is a simple teaching�love and law.� We are impelled by love and all is the expression of love. All spiritual traditions talk about love and that it�s only ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Jesus I Can Live With �A Jesus I Can Live With� September 30, 2007Rev. Dr. Mary TumpkinMany of us struggle with a past image of Jesus. The challenge is that the historical Jesus never intended that there would be a church built around his teachings. Jesus lived in the midst of his own people in Palestine. He was raised a Jewish boy who knew the plight of his people. He was inspired by the concept of the Kingdom of God. He brought healing and a message of renewal. The message was interpreted as subv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Virtues of Islam A rich and wonderful Dialogue and conversation with Rev. David Alexander and Shahariar Amed, president of the Bilal Mosque in Beaverton OR. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Many Paths, One Truth Many Paths, One Truth September 17, 2007Rev. Charles HallOur job is to step into the flow of life. We want to be available to God and continually ask God the use us. We�re called to glorify the I AM presence. We�re called to discover the many paths and the one truth�that we are each unique and one with all there is at the same time. There are two ways that we can grow ourselves:1. Be loving in the world:Be more loving and generous and kind. We are never dealing with anyone but ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meditation: All Is God Meditation from Sunday Service on 9/9/7. Meditation Song,"All Is God"written and performed by Brian Harris. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NTMO Birthday Testimony All month long we will celebrate our 3rd year ministry anniversary through the sharing of Testimonies from members of our community. We hope you enjoy these touching stories of how this ministry has impacted lives.May you be blessed and inspired by this powerful message! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Tao, The Truth, The Life We are moving in to the Season for Forgiving and Peace, sponsored by the Association for Global New Thought. This season, September11-21, begins on September 11, the day 101 years ago that Gandhi took his stand for non-violence and ends on September 21, the UN�s Global Cease-fire DayPlease look for materials on www.agnt.orgToday, we�re talking about the Tao de Ching and how Taoist ideas have an interreligious focus.The Tao is�the way.� It is not a thing but the source of all things. Lau ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Vibration of Wholeness In This week's message Rev David reminds us that at the center of our being is a pattern of Wholeness. Our Soul knows and remembers this pattern - certain words, prayers and consciousness resonate with this pattern and help create more experiences of wholeness in our life. Are you resonating with the pattern of wholeness - do you want to increase the vibration?May you be blessed and inspired by this powerful message! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Compassion Between Equals Rev. David Alexander's Compassion Between Equals: Compassion is not an act between the Healer and the Wounded - its is a relationship Between Equals. Each of us is the author of the New Humanity - which must include and deeper understanding of our interconnectedness with all. Thus our call to action in the world is a call to greater compassion.May you be blessed and inspired by this powerful message! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Connecting to the Global Heart Rev. David Alexander's message reminds us that...We�re here to contribute beyond ourselves to something greater than ourselves. We�re manifesting our personal good and, yet, being about the greater good as well. Our individual good cannot take away from another�s good. The United Centers for spiritual Living, of which we are now a part, have at the center of their vision the idea of the Global Heart�a vision for peace and wholeness and inclusion and being focused on the greater good.We h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Creation The Baha�i community joined us today. It is Rev. David�s experience that the Baha�i prayers are poetic, beautiful, profound and ascending. There is an overarching vibration of humility about the awesomeness of God and a reminder to us that we are one with God and all the wonders that come from the One.We are here to awaken everyday and we�re her to be on purpose and liberate the Soul. Everyday we can create ourselves new. Our work is to allow ourselves to be a vehicle and bring love into ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Forgiveness Day: Shape Your Future It�s International Forgiveness Day and the following quote really speaks to why forgiveness is important:�Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future,�If we want to live the life of our dreams, then we must heal the hurts that are inevitable on our spiritual path.We�ve felt hurt and we cling onto the hurt�� We curse it�staying angry and upset�� We nurse it�thinking about it, thinking about what we�re going to say or do We� We rehearse it�talking about it with othersUntil we finally co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Gospel of Inclusion (11AM) Bishop Carlton D. Pearson - 4th generation pentacostal minister who has turned from the teaching of Hell and Separation to Love and Inclusion is our guest speaker this Sunday.Listen in as he teaches us through his own journey of the All Inclusive Love of God.We�re each on a mission�God sent us on that mission and we are never more powerful than when we are being our authentic selves. In fact, when we�re functioning at our best, others feel it and become �homesick� for who they really are. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Gospel of Inclusion (9AM) Bishop Carlton D. Pearson - 4th generation pentecostal minister who has turned from the teaching of Hell and Separation to Love and Inclusion is our guest speaker this Sunday.Listen in as he teaches us through his own journey of the All Inclusive Love of God.We�re each on a mission�God sent us on that mission and we are never more powerful than when we are being our authentic selves. In fact, when we�re functioning at our best, others feel it and become �homesick� for who they really are. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stump The Minister Day - Q&A (11AM) In today's service"Stump The Minister"we take questions from the congregation to develop the content of the sermon. Time to ask what you've always wanted to of your minister!This service was so popular and unique we'll be podcasting both the 9 and 11 am services - as the questions and answers were different! Enjoy!May you be blessed and inspired by this powerful message! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stump The Minister Day - Q&A (9AM) In today's service"Stump The Minister"we take questions from the congregation to develop the content of the sermon. Time to ask what you've always wanted to of your minister!This service was so popular and unique we'll be podcasting both the 9 and 11 am services - as the questions and answers were different! Enjoy!May you be blessed and inspired by this powerful message! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Voice of Peacemakers Jesus gave us two great commandments:1. To love God with all our heart and soul and mind2. To love our neighbor as ourselvesIt is clear that many people have missed the part about loving ourselves and we do, therefore, not love our neighbor�hence the world we live in where conflict and discord is rampant.Fundamentally, what New Thought is about is learning to love ourselves because it is the only way to peace.Our teens had a week-long experience of being at a transformational camp where th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Check-in, Check Up Today, we�re in for a check-up. We take our cars in for a tune-up and today, we�re looking a regular spiritual maintenance. We�re getting a check-up from the neck up!!At the beginning of the year, many of us at NTMO signed a commitment card with an intention to make some changes in many areas of our lives. So, how are things unfolding?? The challenge for most of us is that we can easily�check out,� �numb out,� or be �pacified� and not re-look at commitments that we�ve made. Listen in a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Soul Freedom Celebrating the Freedom of the Soul - you are a divine child of God and your destiny is to be free from discord of every nature. Listen to this inspiring message and learn how...May you be blessed and inspired by this powerful message! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Embracing the Mystery Have you ever been through what the mystics call a"Dark Night of the Soul?"Most everyone has, or will. It is a natural part of the mystery of our soul's evolution and unfolding in this journey of life. Rev. David explores with us the aspects of the mystery and how we can learn to embrace the hard times rather than resisting them.May you be blessed and inspired by this powerful message! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Father's Day Love You Forever Father�s Day is about the energy of creation. It is about seeding and birthing of ideas and fuses with the Divine Feminine to bring forth creation.Men may forget that it is not just being proud about their creations, because when there is only�divide and conquer� mentality, the male energy is out of balance. It is when we find a way to fuse creation energy with unconditional love that we create a world that works for all.May you be blessed and inspired by this powerful message! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Cosmic Sweep of Love Guest speaker Harry Morgan Moses inspires us all with this powerful message on the Cosmic Sweep of Love and its affect on us all.May you be blessed and inspired by this powerful message! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Graduation Celebration Graduation season is a special time in our communities - a time to celebrate the transitions, rites of passage and evolution of the soul in each of us. Join us for this special graduation message and explore the ways in which your life is graduating to the next level of wholeness!May you be blessed and inspired by this powerful message! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life is Eternal Rev. Dr. Sally Rutis reminds us on this Memorial Day Service - there is an Eternal Life Energy all around us and within.May you be blessed and inspired by this powerful message! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New Gospel Rev. David Alexander inspires us with a message of freedom and inclusivity that our soul craves and longs for. He also previews Bishop Carlton Pearson and his visit to Portland coming in June. Along with the powerful voice of Jami Lula ths service is a healing reminder of our divine birthright.May you be blessed and inspired by this powerful message! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spirit of Home: Heavenly Love Rev. Dr. Sally Rutis provides us with a touching reminder of the love that surrounds us all on this special mother's day service.May you be blessed and inspired by this powerful message! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website