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How Do Love and Truth Connect I had a conversation with Scarlett Lewis...

The Case for Simple Life too complicated?  Try a simple heart.     Gen. 6:6 Secrets of Heaven 589

What is Beneath the Surface? Often love lies beneath anger.     Gen. 6:6 Secrets of Heaven 587

The Importance of Not Knowing  Sometimes our biggest challenges come from what we "know."    Gen. 6 Secrets of Heaven 586

5 Ideas that Could Change Your Life Love Above All Else A key Christian New Church concept is that we are to “Love above all the other commandments.” Seeing God in others even in the darker corners of our lives. 7/31/2022

It's good that we're different! A complex machine like a car or a computer needs many different parts working in tandem to accomplish amazing things. God intends for the human race to be the ultimate complex machine—all of us working together using our different skills, minds, and hearts to accomplish the ultimate goal: the happiness of all. 7/24/2022 with Curtis Childs

What is True Beauty? - 10 Minutes of Calm Beauty in heaven comes down to one word... thoughtfulness. Secrets of Heaven 553

Living Through Other People's Eyes We often do just that.  Yet peace in living in the world as God sees it. Secrets of Heaven 549

Good Competition/Bad Competition "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." Hebrews 12:1

How Can We Stop Pretending? Happiness can be found in shared joy, shared struggle, but not in projections. Secrets of Heaven 549

Contentment Should we aspire do to nothing, or should we aspire to contentment? Secrets of Heaven 452

A New Kind of Creative We often imagine creativity as an "above-it-all" thing - a individual vision from the mountaintop.  But there is a spiritual creativity to be found at the bottom, in the concrete. Secrets of Heaven 452

Connecting on the Ground Floor - 10 Minutes of Calm We can often see faith as "higher than", as elevation or altitude.  Maybe parts of faith are "higher than", but the heart of faith is much more connected to the ground floor. Secrets of Heaven 451

Never a Complete Success. Never a Complete Failure. - 10 Minutes of Calm We tend to sort life into events that are either a complete success or a complete success. Let's find a more nuanced way to hold things. Gen. 4:24 Secrets of Heaven 433

How Do Faith and Forgiveness Go Together? Faith and forgiveness come together in surprising ways. Gen. 4:24 Secrets of Heaven 433

Immediately and Forever An aspiration way to see forgiveness ... immediately and forever. Gen. 4:24 Secrets of Heaven 433

Angels are with us from the very beginning of scripture and from the very beginning of our lives.  They bring creativity, inspiration and comfort.  Let's talk about that blessed work, how angels weave their way into our lives. 7/10/2022

Tattoo You God leaves a mark even on the broken parts.  What does that mark say? "Love above all the other commandments."  Gen. 4:15 Secrets of Heaven 396

Cleaning Out the Closet With God, there will often be glimmers of light at the bottom of all things - including the hard things.  Our job?  Clean out the closet. Gen. 4:19 Secrets of Heaven 408

Using Those Difficult Parts as a Seed - 10 Minutes of Calm

What is the best arrangement for a human life? Join Curtis Childs as we explore the three universal categories of love and how we can prioritize them within ourselves in harmony with God’s design. 7/3/2022

What Can We Do About the Mean People in Our Lives? Sometimes the best we can do is this - if we can't love someone - we can send our love TO them. Gen. 4:13 Secrets of Heaven 383

Contrasting Opposites Contrasting opposites, like negative space in art, helps us to see.  It is a way towards peace. Gen. 4:12 Secrets of Heaven 380

A Way Past Distraction Much of the time the chatter in our brains can feel like a curse. How do we move past it? Gen. 4:12 Secrets of Heaven 380