Click Here to Listen In this sermon Peter Haas uses the story of Naomi in the Book of Ruth to teach several insights about the call to compassion and empathy. © 2010 www.ContemplativeChristians.com. All Rights Reserved.
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In this sermon, pastor Peter Haas shares a simple analogy to help convey the meaning of Christmas. © 2012. All Rights Reserved. ContemplativeChristians.com is an online spiritual resource for the contemplative Christian journey deeper into God’s love, celebrating the gifts of Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina, Silence, Solitude, Service, Nature, and especially the writings of Thomas Keating, and [...]
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In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God…and the Word became flesh and dwelled among us. John 1:1, 4 I only remember one Christmas Eve sermon from my childhood and youth. I was 17 years old and distinctly remember my pastor teaching [...]
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All thanks to God, Father, Son and Hoy Spirit, the Infinitely Compassionate and Most Merciful: And to Mary, sister, daughter and mother of Jesus, both Signs of God. And to our Mother Eve, and her husband Adam, and all other names who have paired the Body to bear forth the Family of God into its ever [...]
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Eternal and Loving God: External life attempts to smother the truth that human beings are the chosen beneficiaries of Your Love. Help us remember today. Help us wake up more fully to this truth. May we recognize, receive, and remember this essential truth of Your Love, despite all external evidence to the contrary. Your Love operates under [...]
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“My soul yearns and pines for the courts of God. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.” Psalm 84.3 Although difficult to remember in our culture, I remember that instinctual drives for survival, power and love do not solely define me. I am also created for union with God. Thus, I [...]
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“Whatever villages or towns or countryside Christ entered, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak; and as many as touched it were healed.” Mark 6.55-56 Dark emotions arising in reaction to difficulties in life reveal that my inner landscape is full of [...]
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Beloved: Today I make the inward turn to silence to feel Your strength as the energy for all my doings and also my deepest rest. In Christ, Soul of my soul. Amen. © 2012. All Rights Reserved. ContemplativeChristians.com is an online spiritual resource for the contemplative Christian journey deeper into God’s love, celebrating the gifts of Centering [...]
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God of all Creation: In your grace, our wrong turns become unexpected paths. Inside this grace enabled surrender, I find your love. Inside your love, I find silence. Inside the silence, You Are and I Am. Amen. © 2012. All Rights Reserved. ContemplativeChristians.com is an online spiritual resource for the contemplative Christian journey deeper [...]
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