“The word of the Lord which came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.” (Zephaniah 1:1) Zephaniah – means
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I always feel that one of the most under-rated benefits of pursuing spiritual growth is our ability to see through the layers of a seemingly ordinary television program and relate it with life and spirituality in general. I came across one such documentary from
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We welcomed David Millar, Director of Spiritual Training, at the Australian New Church College, based in Adelaide. Recorded on Friday 29 April 2022
Do we earn our salvation? Or do we do nothing at all? These are two positions we tend to fall into, yet the truth is somewhere in between. Reading Exodus chapter 30, verses 11-16, the temple tax, or ransom money. “Wherever a Church
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Looking at the Lord’s Prayer, recorded in both the gospels of Matthew and Luke, we took the phrase, “As in heaven, so upon the earth” and drew an important principle: What rules us is what rules within us This service took place
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I came across an interesting topic in Hinduism recently that helped me better understand Swedenborg’s account of spiritual influxes that govern our lives. The topic is the observance of the ‘Gunas’ i.e. the predominant qualities that dominates one’s mind at any given time. As we go about
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The first in our new series, Christians Behaving Badly: How we get religion wrong, and what we need to do about it. What constitutes “true worship”? When is it OK to break religious and ceremonial law? Eli’s sons, Hophni and Phinehas (1
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