5-18-2013 Sunday Service of the Church Within #865
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Today's Service is offered by: Pastor Daniel J. Megow
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Humor of the Week
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Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
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Welcome by: Pastor Daniel
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Greetings my Beloved Sisters and Brothers, and welcome once again to the Church that is Within. You are the Temple. You are the Congregation. Any and All Truth is the Gospel. The Divine Spirit within you is your True Minister.
When all the Berries begin to flower and the fruit trees have just finished their flower, I am always reminded of the inevitability and the beauty of...
The topic of today's Sunday Service, #865, is…
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The Sermon
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Change happens.
There is no Growth without change.
Those who fear change and try to thwart it will merely succeed in prohibiting Growth.
Change will inevitably come despite their best efforts to eradicate it.
Growth may be unconscious...
Growth may well be purposeful...
but...
One cannot force Growth...
They must allow it...
Though they Can create an environment that Encourages it.
Growth is in no way inevitable...
Growth can be inhibited...
Growth can be avoided.
Growth can be prevented
Growth...
Seek it out Willingly and it will find you.
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Quotes
******* (From: The Book of Runes -#6 - Initiation / Something Hidden (Perth)
A counsel against expecting too much, or expecting in the ordinary way, for the old way has come to an end. You simply cannot repeat the old and not suffer. Call in your scattered energies, concentrate on your own life at this moment, your own requirements for growth. More important, Perth counsels you not to focus on outcomes, nor to bind yourself with the memory of past achievement. In so doing, you rob yourself of a true present, which is the only time in which self-change can be realized.
(From: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961 )
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
(From: Susan Taylor )
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-5 Section-3)
The spiritual growth of the soul takes place wholly independently of the intellectual self-consciousness.
(From: R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn )
There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable.
(From: The Book of Runes -#5 - Strength / Manhood / Womanhood/ A Wild Ox (Uruz)
Learn to adapt yourself to the demands of such a creative time. Firm principles attach to this Rune, and at the same time humility is called for, since in order to rule you must learn how to serve. This Rune puts you on notice that your Soul and the Universe support the new growth.
(From: Joanne Field )
The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-100 Section-1)
Growth is not truly indicated by mere products but rather by progress. Real educational growth is indicated by enhancement of ideals, increased appreciation of values, new meanings of values, and augmented loyalty to supreme values.
(From: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963 )
Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.
(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-100 Section-1)
The chief inhibitors of growth are prejudice and ignorance.
(From: George Eliot (1819 - 1880 )
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
(From: M. Scott Peck )
Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.
(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-100 Section-0)
Love supplies the soil for religious growth
(From: The ASB Bible - Ephesians 4:15)
but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ
(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-91 Section-8)
Genuine prayer adds to spiritual growth, modifies attitudes, and yields that satisfaction which comes from communion with divinity. It is a spontaneous outburst of God-consciousness.
(From: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980 )
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.
(From: Gail Sheehy)
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-100 Section-1)
There are present in all normal mortals certain innate drives toward growth and self-realization which function if they are not specifically inhibited. The certain technique of fostering this constitutive endowment of the potential of spiritual growth is to maintain an attitude of wholehearted devotion to supreme values.
(From: Mortimer Adler )
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we live.
(From: Peter McWilliams, Life 101 )
Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth."
(From: Joanna Field)
I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-100 Section-1)
Loyal persons are growing persons, and growth is an impressive and inspiring reality. Live loyally today — grow — and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole.
(From: The RSV Bible - Mark 4:8-9 )
...And other seeds fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold." And he said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
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The Prayer
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Dear God,
Help me to grow in wisdom and love.
You ALL are Within the Infinitely Loving Embrace of our Universal Parent,
The Creator's Infinite Love to all of You,
Pastor Daniel
