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Devotions thoughts taken from Michael Molinos book, The Spiritual Guide Are we caught up in our prayer life by making requests, meditation, reasoning, and straining to find God without? God is within us! St. Augustine summed it up by saying, “Lord I went wandering like a stray sheep, seeking you with anxious reasoning weighted within…
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Devotions based on Michael Molinos’ book, The Spiritual Guide As we go along on our spiritual journey sometimes if feels like we are making no progress and actually going backwards. We may feel like we are walking in darkness and dryness. But God may be calling us to walk by faith and not dependent on…
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Devotions based on Michael Molinos’ book, The Spiritual Guide Our spirit is the very center, our inward temple of God. He reigns upon His thrown in that place so we may keep our hearts at peace. Troubles may come to us in the form of temptations, trials, subtle suggestions etc. but we can still be…
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Devotions based on Michael Molinos’ book, The Spiritual Guide ( 1675) “The deep things of God are not invented things, nor are the teachings to be proven, but rather only to be received.” The deep things don’t come through hearing or reading books, but by the Holy Spirit who wants to communicate to those that…
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11-22 On Saturday we had 8 “Wildmen” at Canaan for retreat and I think of them as passionate for God. It reminded me of an article I read by Chila Soychik who describes a passionate woman but I think it applies to both sexes. Persons that are passionate for God have a thirst for Him…
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Devotions based on Stephen Smith’s book, Soul Custody We are told in Phil 2:12 to cultivate and complete our salvation with reverence and awe. ( AB) Action steps are ways to work out our salvation if we are serious about our soul care. Our culture says to work more do more etc but let us…
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Devotions based on Stephen Smith’s book, Soul Custody Love is the acid test of Christian spirituality. It is the proof that we love God. Either we are growing to be more loving or we are not growing at all in our souls. Soul friendships are the place where love is fostered, nurtured, and given. It…
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I have been preparing a sermon for this Sunday based on Col 1:15-20. This is one of the best descriptions and summaries of Jesus to be found in the New Testament. Some think that Paul borrowed an early Christian hymn to express these wonderful words about Jesus. This text is difficult to preach on because they are…
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Devotions based on Stephen Smith’s book, Soul Custody “A soul friendship is an open place for another soul to emerge, a safe place for the action of friendship making, which is no easy task.” Sometimes we mistakenly assume that one broken person plus another broken person equals a whole. But our math is wrong.…
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Devotions from Stephen Smith’s book , Soul Custody When we live only for ourselves we become alienated from others and also alienated from ourselves. Our deepest and truest self is not an isolated self but finds its meaning and fulfillment in community. In a soul friendship we die to our false self and learn the…