Unit 5: Grace Revealed! The End Goal: Eternal Life “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and to forfeit his soul/person?”To have good success in this life is a desirable goal. But what about the life hereafter? Our best ‘success’ in this life without Love/God, is the ultimate ‘vanity of vanities’.For […]
Unit 5 Introduction: The Return to Normal: ‘Old Man’ Nature has a way of returning itself to normal, like the food cycle. From the earth and back again to the earth. Or like teeth which must be retained in their new positions after orthodontic work. Even so, you are likely to return to your old
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Unit 4 Lesson 3: Continue to Continue Old habits die hard. And new habits die easy.The reason is simple. Man is like a computer with a software and a hard drive. The ‘hidden man’ does the coding and the ‘fleshly mind’, the hard drive with a great memory, just runs the program.The easy part is
UNIT 4 LESSON 2: The 30-Day Challenge “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” Herbert Spencer The Gospel puts that even more bluntly.“Knowledge puffs up but love builds up”It goes on to tell us how to love: ‘in action and in truth’, for love gives. Love is action!The 30-day Challenge will build
UNIT 4: LESSON 1 THE NABLA FORMULA Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. Jesus Messiah Abraham Maslow, in his classic psychosocial analysis of the needs of man, created a triangular hierarchy with man’s basic or physiologic needs at the base and his ultimate
Unit 4 Introduction: The Nabla Formua Abraham Maslow in his classic treatise on man’s hierarchy of needs, addressed the matter from a natural point of view.Jesus Christ addressed the same needs from a spiritual point of view.(The Nabla is an inverted triangle/pyramid)The NABLA Formula is Maslow’s pyramid upturned. It represents Jesus’ counter intuitive perspective of
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Unit 3 – Lesson 8: Discipline “And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things.” GospelDiscipline, being temperate in the words of the Gospel, is key to achieving any worthwhile venture. It is the ability to do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, and how it
Further reading: LESSON 2: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE The emotions of man are intricately connected with his will and his thoughts. Indeed, they are so closely knit that the “division of soul (emotions and thoughts) and spirit” is only possible by the word of God; Truth! So says the Gospel. The core lesson for us is this:
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Unit 3 – Lesson 2 EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE The emotions of man are intricately connected with his will and his thoughts. Indeed, they are so closely knit that the “division of soul (emotions and thoughts) and spirit” is only possible by the word of God; Truth! So says the Gospel. The core lesson for us is
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Further Reading Further Reading: SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE “Lech Lecha” Go Forth (Go to you/the Person!!) Jewish wisdom According to Jewish metaphysical thinking, the first crucial step in life is to go within — to our inner self — to discover who our Maker, God, has called us to be and what He has called us to
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