Sunday Sermon On Work

 

In this Sunday's sermon, we will dwell on the topic of work. Work can be done with one's hands or head, or body. It can be physical or only involve using your mind. Work can be skilled or unskilled. It can be creative, like composing music or writing a song or involving talent like the performing arts. What all these kinds of work have in common is there exists a market for them. If someone is willing to pay you to do it or buy what you make doing it, it can be counted as work.

You can get a job using your hands if you are a craftsman, such as a mechanic or a carpenter, or using your body if you are strong moving furniture. You can even get a job using your head if you are brainy and get a degree or training. Fashion models use their bodies to make a living. Actors use their mind and body in role-playing skill levels that vary by actor or actress. The director uses his head to weave scenes into their performance to compose the movie...  

 The work might require on-the-job training if it is skilled labor such as a cashier or maybe only needing everyday skills to use like a bagger in the supermarket. You may need to take a course in typing for a data entry job. You may have to get your degree to become a computer programmer. You may be able to get a job like raking leaves or sweeping the shop after the store closes just by applying. 

The more skill required, the more training you will need to complete to compete in the job market. Even creative work like writing a novel or composing a song may need you to have the basic skill sets involved in said acts. The less skill required, the lower the wages. Learn to earn I have heard again and again...

God has suggested we earn our bread when able to not need constant care by our family or professionals for a handicap. In the afterlife, we may find conjuring only required to access the already created goodies and creating everyone's regular employment when not socializing...

Wednesday Reflection On Godhead And The Cross

 

This Wednesday, we will reflect on the Cross of Christ and Godhead. As the Cross symbolizes God's gift of eternal life through Jesus, the Cross also has taken meaning in Godhead. The Cross is symbolic of the suffering for the persecuted done by protagonists at antagonistic hands. It symbolizes the innocent suffering to help the afflicted by unjust treatment. The Cross represents the suffering God's children go through to help those suffering in cruel creations. 

The Cross represents the toll in suffering done by protagonist parties to help those persecuted by the antagonistic members of society. Whether criminals or tyrants the protagonists face the anger of the antagonists for butting in on "sport" of the antagonists. The meek and weak are meant to be abused in as many ways as can be come up with is the antagonist philosophy...

The Cross also reflects the innocent protagonists suffering because of their endeavors to aid the suffering from the antagonists laws, regime policies, and general practices. The treatment the antagonists give those in their power and those that get in their way can get quite hellish! Just think nuclear weapons and the hell on Earth these mere weapons represent. Spiritual antagonists can literally conjure demonic tormenters to afflict their victims!

 The Cross graphically presents the suffering the children of God go through trying to help those caught in cruel creations. Some creations are not loved by their makers as a child slowly growing into a forest full of new creators. Some creators treat their work worse than an animal with the treatment they give it. Some creators even try to drain the natural intelligence and life force from the living matter everything is made from. These at times make their work appear godless and full of lifeless matter...

The Cross has grown from an instrument of cruel execution to a symbol of hope of eternal life to Christians. This Cross in Godhead has grown to represent the suffering by protagonists and victims from antagonist treatments and practices at their sport of exploitation of vulnerability... It is a symbol of hope. Hope one is not alone but has a Good Shepherd, a Comforter, a Counselor, a Helper, a Healer...

Sunday Sermon On Free Will

 

This Sunday's sermon will be on the topic of free will. God gave humans the gift of free will in their sphere of influence. What does this mean? Basically, we have freedom of choice. God has prepared a Creation menu, and we get to make our selections. Humans get to choose between right and wrong. We can decide to do the right thing or something else. We get the choice of whether we will follow God's plan for our lives or choose another way to live. Finally, humanity can choose Salvation and life without end or...

When God placed humanity in his garden, they had the choice to listen to him or be punished. The story goes they disobeyed and were sent out of the garden of Eden into the world. There they had the choice to live God's way or suffer the consequences of Sin. Many lives have been lived in Sin. That is the religious explanation for why there is so much human suffering. So long as we ignore God's guidance, we are inviting trouble into our lives...

Humans have the choice to read God's word and learn how to live a good life or ignore God's helping hand. God does not leave us hopeless in the world to fend for ourselves. He is a living God and is always there to turn to for help, guidance, or comfort. Scripture is there too but is no substitute for the invisible living God. God is always there, whereas a book may not be available all the time...

Humanity has another big choice in life. The choice between Salvation and endless life or the other alternative. God's plan for our Salvation is laid out in the books of the Holy Bible for us to learn. We can get the aid of a pastor or priest or go it on our own and try to understand a book of books that warns us God will lay stumbling blocks and snares...

We have free will. Whether you believe it is a gift from God or not. We make choices every day. We make small choices all the time. Choices like what to eat for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. We make large choices. How much education to get and what to do for a living? Whether to get married and raise a family or not? Our lives are the result of the sum of the choices we make. Will you choose belief in God, Salvation, and life without end, or something else... 

Wednesday Reflection On Godhead Lifestories

 

This Wednesday we will reflect on Godhead lifestories or stories that simulate a lifetime. Like Mark Twain's Tom Sayer a lifestory may be a novel turned to a lifestory adaptation for holographic entertainment theater or world stages even, in Godhead theater of the mind. A lifestory may involve a simulated reality like a science fiction or fantasy novel. It may be even a role playing session guided by the information introduced and the scenes presented to interact with.,,

A lifestory lasts for the lifetime of its star. It is a full simulation of a life. From cradle to grave the life occurs before the audience uninterrupted. Moment to moment the life goes on. Every second of every hour transpires in the production as if a life were being witnessed.Whether it is Tom Sayer adapted into a lifestory format or some face and life unknown before it was performed...

Lifestories can be elaborate simulated reality sessions. There may be a science fiction or fantasy scripted. This scripted stage of the story, the backdrop can be used off stage for theme parties and role play like Cosplay gatherings by the audience members. The special effects in theater of the mind can make a very realistic science fiction. Fantasy fiction as well is very indulgable in full resemblance of fantasy worlds or nightmarish realms. 

A lifestory can even be a role playing session that last a lifetime for the performer(s). The entire lifetime spent in character reacting to the information and scenes presented in the performance. The audience may be addressed like George Burns did in his show or just bear witness to the lifetime. Either way the performer is acting for the length of the character's life...

Lifestories are not for everyone. If you want a short time spent enjoying a theatrical illusion a lifetime is way too long to spend. Although some lifestories are serialized with wake up and sleeptime beginnings and endings of episodes of a day in the life, making them much more approachable as entertainment.

Sunday Sermon On The Holy Bible

This Sunday's sermon will be on the Holy Bible. Like a Holy God, the Holy Bible gives one some expectation. A book called Holy one might expect to be honest in its content. Additionally, one could think a Holy book should be good for you. One might even believe a Holy book should inform you what God wants from you...

Honesty. One could reasonably expect a Holy book, to be honest. One would expect if you understand what is written in a Holy book, one would not be deceived. The Holy Bible is a historical collection of writings thousands of years old. It was not written by one author, but Holy men inspired by God wrote it for centuries. In the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, God gives a stern warning. He promises father and son and others will perish from stumbling blocks he lays in the way. How true that is! Many are stumbled from laws in the Bible to erring in judgment. These actually treat sex and specific sex acts as worthy of death...

Good for you. One might think a Holy book should be good for you. One could expect it to be a blessing. In its stories, the Bible teaches gifts God plans for his followers. The odds are stacked against the readers, though! One has to believe in a God that is an invisible spirit. The characters in the Bible are everyday people God uses in extraordinary ways. They show what God can do with a shepherd boy, a prophet, a people whom he chooses. In the New Testament, we are offered eternal life and spirit gifts! God has great plans for you and me...

"What does God want from you," Micah asks in the Book of the Holy Bible named for him. Then he tells us God wants us to love mercy, act justly, and walk humbly with God. The Bible teaches that he is a Holy God and wants us to be Holy. God wants us to be born again spiritually. If we follow the truth to the unchanging law of liberty and set ourselves free from snares holding us back from our birthright as children of God, we shall come to see the light of life... 

The Holy Bible, the Good Book also called, seems to live up to expectation. The Bible honestly warns us about the prohibition laws in its text. The Good Book strengthens morale and offers us the gift of eternal life. The Holy Bible even tells us what God wants! It is a treasury of stories teaching us what God can do... 

Wednesday Reflection On Spirit Vs The Letter Of The Word

 

This Wednesday, we will reflect on the conflict between the Spirit and the letter of the word, some substitute for spiritual revelation. The Spirit is the hidden inner voice of truth that shows its disclosures in the apparent honesty of its teaching. When the Spirit reveals the truth, you know it. It is obvious. It is a fact. The letter of the word, be it the law or sacred texts or the spoken opinion of a professional, often conflicts with the Spirit due to the Spirit being honest, and lawgivers, authors, even professionals can be wrong, lie, or misinterpret God's will. 

Lawgivers make the rules for the governed. Sometimes these rules have loopholes for those in the know. Sometimes these loopholes only help those who can afford a lawyer who knows the legal code. Money can buy you a get out of the jail-free card in those legal codes. Is it just that those who can afford a lawyer get no time in jail but those who cannot serve the letter of the law prison term?

The authors of sacred texts at times interpret revealed texts to write opinions and other companion works that can be held sacred by the followers and eventually become a part of holy texts' body of works. Interpretations of the legal code of scripture or prophetic writings as an example. These commentaries may even become collected into volumes held sacred. Like the Kaballah is to the Hebrews or The Writing of the Church Fathers is to Christians. These works are based upon revealed texts but may fall short of the mark of truth in their contents in that they minister death to some for harmless acts; any just judge would have no problem mere chastising the offender and setting it free. God in the Bible warned his readers he will lay stumbling blocks and snares! Beware, unwary interpreters...

 Any professional is only as good as their education. Even the doctors of the university have only mastered the lessons taught. These lessons have on occasions been shown to be folly like the sun and stars revolve around the Earth. Even government forms are treated as foolish, like absolute monarchy. Education was revealed only as good as it is up to date when the religious-based University system of Europe nearly consented to Gallileo becoming a victim of burning at the stake for teaching against geocentrism, with Papal approval!

The Spirit makes its lesson plain and simple, easy to understand! Its knowledge is as evident as 1+1=2 and other mathematical symbolism presented facts. Words are symbols when used right, that mean things that exist like a cup or a vase or a chair, easy to see in one's mind's eye and understand. You can check and see if you are told the truth about what you are hearing in one's mind's eye. Words are foundational only in stories! In any fact, words stand for things you can reference and check the validity of what you are being presented... A good dictionary of words for real things should be translatable to a Pictionary catalog of all the words represented. A good lesson is not a mirage made of words. A good lesson is a blueprint of something that exists being shared with the student body.

Sunday Sermon On Holy God

 

Be Holy for I am Holy, the Bible teaches as the voice of God. He is a Holy God. What does that mean to you and me? What conclusion can we draw from this statement? Is it of little significance to us as God's creation? Or does God being Holy grant us great expectations about how he will treat us and what he does as our God?

If God were not Holy, he could do anything he wanted with his creations. He would have no implied obligation to be good or just. No one would think it out of character if he just destroyed everything he made. Even giving all his creation hell would be on the table. No cruelty would be unthinkable. He would possess carte blanche as our maker. Without a Holy conscience to guide him, he would be free to do as he pleased...

God being holy paints a different picture. One expects he will do the right thing, whatever that is. One hopes he will rule justly as the Eternal King Forever. One even considers God will deal honestly with us even though we are merely the products of his creative intelligence. Without God being grounded in holiness, we would have no such notions...

Be holy, for I am holy. God has made a request, and it is up to us to try or forfeit establishing a relationship on the groundwork God has asked. We must be holy if we want to meet God as he desires. What does that involve? Trying to be as good as you know how to be is a good start. Trying to do no lasting harm to others is another good step. Being blameless in the eyes of a just court would be ideal... Better yet, ask God to help you be holy and accept his grace and forgiveness if you fall short of the mark! We are only human.