What does it mean to “bow down”? The latest in our series on correspondences – the way natural, physical things represent spiritual (inner) states of mind.
I’d like to welcome you on this journey, reading Emanuel Swedenborg’s Heaven and Hell. Many people encountering Swedenborg’s work for the first time begin here, with his most well known book. It certainly captures the popular imagination, as illustrated by the recent
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“The Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach wrote the initials “S. D. G.” at the end of all his church compositions and also applied it to some, but not all, his secular works.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soli_Deo_gloria) “Soli Deo gloria emphasizes the glory of God as
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Why would you get involved in a group such as a church? There are many reasons: the theology, the style of worship, they’re nice people, to meet like-minded others, social connection, for what you can get out of it, for personal or
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We walk differently than we did 500 years ago! Can you see how? Ainsley RAD Ballet Grade 1 – Classical Walks(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juvV3dII8GE, Ainsley Chan, YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo1s3oJu8u1qwoRM9XhK6qQ) What does “walking” mean? Feet, represent our natural lives – all our actions – because they
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The third in our series on the Five Solas of Protestant Christianity. “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.” (John
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Can you experience and understand paradox? Paradox is defined as, ‘A statement or proposition seemingly self-contradictory or absurd, and yet explicable as expressing a truth.’ (Webster’s Dictionary) Examples include: “Less is more” “The most corrected copies are commonly the least correct” (Francis
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Isaiah chapter 40 begins with familiar words, used by Handel in his oratorio, Messiah, and often associated with the Christmas story: “Comfort, yes, comfort My people!” But if anything, the words that end the chapter, in verse 31, are even more well-known:
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Is religion, like sports psychology, an irrational optimism which seeks to banish the skepticism that is so useful to science? “This chapter is about the psychology of performance. We will dig down into the minds of top sportsmen and explore the relationship
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