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SURRENDERING TO WHOM?

DR ICHAK K. ADIZES challenges us all to learn to listen to what feels right and wrong in the heart. He encourages us to find God’s will within ourselves.

The Heart Is Where We Experience Connection

MIRABAI BUSH is the author of Working with Mindfulness, co-creator of Google’s “Search Inside Yourself” program, co-founder of the Centre for Contemplative Mind and Society and a founding board member of the Seva Foundation. Some of her other literary works include Contemplation Nation, Contemplative Practices in Higher Education and Walking Each Other Home, co-authored with Ram Dass. Here she speaks with PURNIMA RAMAKRISHNAN as part of the GLOW Webinar series, on her journey and evolution during the last 50 years, and on the role of her teacher in that transformation.

Sleep Over It

HARI VENKATESAN takes the approach of self-compassion towards self-improvement and managing emotions. Here he shares some tips from his own experience.

The Fountain Within - An Art Essay

NARENDRA KINI manages to integrate his work as a successful Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur with being an artist, a poet and seeker of higher truth through meditative practices. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Global Touchpoints, and here he talks of how he finds his inspiration for creativity and art.

Part 2 - Transforming Awareness: Being a Life Coach

In October 2019, PETER J. REDING spoke with VICTOR KANNAN about being a pioneer in the field of professional Life Coaching. In part 2, they speak about the importance of sacred space, inner connection, and revitalizing the sacred in secular spaces through awareness.

Raising CONSCIOUSNESS - PART 2

In April 2020, BRUCE LIPTON spoke with UDAY KUMAR about the transition our planet is going through right now, and what we need to do to raise our consciousness to the next level. In part 2, he goes into more detail about epigenetics, consciousness, and how we remain preprogrammed until we evolve our consciousness through meditation. It is our programs more than anything external that hack our attention.

One Human Family - IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES

All around the world, we are in lockdown in a bid to slow down the spread of the COVID-19 virus. And we are coming to terms with this collective experience. In this article, RUBY CARMEN shares some insights, inspirations and suggestions for coping well in this extraordinary time.

A User's Guide to Living - Part 7 - COMMUNITY

DAAJI continues his series on everyday living, introducing the sixth universal principle of the User’s Guide, which is to know everyone as our brethren and treat them as such. As a starting point, this sixth principle helps us to overcome prejudice, and develop mutual love and respect with all beings. As we take it further, it unfolds into a state of unity and oneness that is a reflection of the original Source.

STEPPING FORWARD TO SERVE

Serving humanity is the mission and core value adopted by the Great Commission (GC) COGOP in Rongai-Tuala, Kenya, since its beginning. Our mandate is to reach out and share the love and compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ with a lost and hurting world. The GCCOGOP is always looking for opportunities to fulfill this mandate.

Little is much When God is In It

DRAPER VIRGINIA COGOP

KIDS CAN SERVE

God has long been in the business of using young people for the glory of His kingdom. In Genesis chapter 37, we read how He used Joseph. Only a youth, with fantastic dreams, God’s hand was upon Joseph.

It Echoes Up the Holler

Terry Newsom and Mitchell Cathey are co-pastors of Cumberland Furnace COGOP in Dickson County, Tennessee. Because of their reputation as larger-than-life mountain movers, State Overseer E.C. McKinley has dubbed these Western Highland Rim ministers the “Cumberland Furnace Boys.” District presbyter Mike Burton asked them to co-pastor the church after faithful COGOP trailblazer, Pastor Buna Lampley (who had mentored them), went to glory.

THE GRACE OF GIVING

Apostle Peter writes, “We are being built up a spiritual house” (see 1 Peter 2:5 NKJV). In this “spiritual house,” systems and structure, while important, must well up from the essentials of deep intimate relationships with God and one another. Systems and structures should serve the church, not the church serving the systems and structures. In some cases, we have endeavored to develop a global financial system to produce a healthy global function of biblical stewardship. The essential relationships must precede the critical systems and structures for the spiritual health of the church at all levels of ministry to be fruitful.

GLOBAL MISSIONS

As the news reports of the growing pandemic began to escalate in early March, we were moved to action here in Global Missions Ministries.

ALIVE and WELL

For more than a century, Church of God of Prophecy pastors have prepared to step into a pulpit and address their congregations face-to-face one or more times a week. They prepared with Scripture references, three or four main points, and some had a funny story or two.

CONSIDER YOUR SERVE

Kathryn Creasy Executive Director of Leadership Development and Discipleship

TENGO QUE HACER ALGO PARA ayudarle

Todo comenzó como una introducción a su nuevo campo misionero.

LAS IGLESIAS SALUDABLES SON IGLESIAS DADIVOSAS

Por lo general cuando pienso en la dádiva viene a mi mente también esta analogía: ¿Cómo puede Dios bendecirnos si nuestras manos están apretadas, aferradas a todo lo que poseemos? La respuesta es que no puede bendecirnos. No obstante, si nuestras manos están abiertas, si damos libremente de lo que tenemos, entonces también están abiertas para recibir lo que viene de Dios.

Tres fundamento - del discipulado para grupos pequenos

Por medio de Su ministerio, enseñanza e influencia, Jesús alcanzó a miles de personas; pero la mayor parte de Su tiempo la dedicó trabajando solamente con doce.

RECIBA SU ALIENTO

El aliento de Dios da vida. Estamos aquí porque Dios sopló en nosotros aliento de vida. Ezequiel nos habla del encuentro espiritual o visión que experimentó en el capítulo 37. El Espíritu del Señor lo llevó a un valle que estaba lleno de huesos secos y le preguntó: “Hijo de hombre, ¿vivirán estos huesos?” El profeta respondió: “Señor Jehová, tú lo sabes”.

LA INVITACION

En Lucas 14 encontramos a Jesús compartiendo la historia de un hombre que preparaba una gran fiesta.

Elgran llamado

Nunca olvidaré las primeras imágenes que vi de Guatemala cuando íbamos descendiendo. Me encontraba en un avión pequeño lleno de pasajeros que salió de Miami y debajo de mí estaba la Ciudad de Guatemala.

El discipulado: Un mandato olvidado

Cuando pienso en mi crianza de niño, recuerdo algunas órdenes específicas que mis padres me dieron que estaban relacionadas a ciertas lecciones que querían que yo aprendiera.

Discipulos bacedores de discipulos

Antes de ascender al cielo, Jesús les dio la gran comisión a Sus discípulos.

Cómo influenciar a las personas influyentes

LA PARTICIPACIÓN DE LOS ABUELOS

Alguien vino a buscarme

La pastora Marcey Brannon dirige la Iglesia de Dios de la Profecía en Crab Orchard, Tenesí. Crab Orchard tiene un legado sólido en las misiones —domésticas y foráneas. Recientemente tuve la oportunidad de entrevistar a la pastora Brannon y hablar sobre las muchas maneras en que su iglesia está alcanzando a su comunidad local. Además de los ministerios que tiene, esta iglesia recauda miles de dólares anualmente para las misiones a través de ventas de garaje; distribuyen cajas de comida durante los días festivos; bendicen a las familias de bajos ingresos con regalos de Navidad; y una vez al mes sirven en un refugio local para los desamparados.

Thrive

Understanding the Gunas— the Three Energetic Qualities That Make up All of Life— Can Help You Find Balance and Insight

Meals Together at the Long Table

PLANT-BASED CHEF, NUTRITION PROFESSOR, AND RESEARCHER AMY SYMINGTON SHARES HER TAKE ON CREATING MEALS THAT SUPPORT COMMUNITY, CONNECTION, AND HEALTH.

QUARANTINE COMFORT WITH CBD

Soak for 30 to 45 minutes in a hot bath with CBD-infused soaking salts and drink a lot of water while you’re soaking.

WOMEN'S MEDITATION (IS THERE SUCH A THING?)

There’s no reason meditating has to be painful, says staff writer JULIE PETERS. As long as you are in your own thoughts and feelings, meditation can happen anywhere.