These posts highlight the significance of Awareness in one’s journey toward Radiant Spirituality.
At this point in our exploration of Faith over Fear, it may be helpful to spend a few minutes focusing on our subconscious mind and the role it plays in our everyday thoughts, beliefs, and actions. A Bi-Level Mind For more than a century, we’ve understood that our human minds operate on at least two […]
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Most of us Christians can isolate a moment when we made a conscious decision to follow Christ. If we grew up in church, we can probably remember a time when we chose to fully embrace the beliefs we inherited. This was our moment of religious conversion. I was 9 when I knelt by my bottom
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Back in the 1970s and 80s, practically every church had a 16 mm reel-to-reel film projector in its basement. It was the youth pastor’s VCR DVD YouTube of its day. Occasionally, they would show films to the entire church—which is how, at age eight, I came to see two low-budget Christian films called “A Thief in
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As a child of the 1970s, I was, of course, a huge Star Wars fan. I remember going with my brothers and their friends to see it for the first time in 1977 at the Northwest Plaza Cinema in Saint Ann, Missouri. I was six years old. My brother’s friend, Greg, tried to scare me before the
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A few weeks after my Enneagram discovery, I was having dinner with one of my adult daughters. I don’t remember much of what we talked about, but I do remember saying to her, “You know, I think I have anxiety.” She looked at me, puzzled, and said, “You didn’t know that?” I laughed and said,
Reading time: 4 minutes. A few years ago, a good friend suggested that I complete an in-depth Enneagram inventory so that we could discuss the results together. I was going through a particularly difficult time, and he thought the results of the inventory could be enlightening for me. Initially, I resisted, but Darrin kept insisting,
When was the last time you were fully aware of God’s presence? Maybe it’s time to cultivate an awareness of God. Post 1 in “Pillars of Spiritual Wellness.”
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