The Narrowing Path: Walking the Spiritual Walk

This reading is about why these upcoming sacrifices are essential, and why our spiritual growth lies on the other side of sacrifice, pain, responsibility, and service! Letting go of our old ideas and behaviors is no easy task, but the results after we go through the process are near impossible to describe! Great start to the chapter and gives us a great foundation of why this work is essential to...

This is a video introducing the next selection being reviewed on this channel, and it is a chapter from the book titled Byways of Blessedness by James Allen! We will reviewing the chapter Hidden Sacrifices, which is chapter 5. This is going to be an eye opening experience, so come along on the adventure!

A great chapter to wrap up this book about Kitchen's spiritual journey! A chapter about where he came from and what he has found. Choosing to live a life of service to others and sacrificing our selfish interest. What life will you choose? What path to destiny will you follow? Check out the final chapter of V. C. Kitchen's book I Was A Pagan!

This is the chapter reading of V. C. Kitchen's book I Was a Pagan titled This Business of Getting Back to God with the subtitle of Destiny. This is a chapter that is talking to use about our destiny and future when we turn and go all in to a spiritual way of living! Its our obligation to carry this message!

This chapter was all about why spiritual growth is continuously needed, and where to look for it. V. C. Kitchen also shares with us some of his pitfalls he had along the way in on his spiritual journey and trying to live unselfishly. A great reminder that we need to constantly be watching out for the re-emergence of our character defects, selfishness, and self-centeredness. Remember, if we feel di...

This is the chapter reading of V. C. Kitchen's book I Was a Pagan titled This Business of Being of Use to People with the subtitle of Growth. This is a chapter that really calls home the sacrifices we need to be willing to make to pursue a spiritual lifestyle of selflessness. Great reading!

This reading is about what so many people what to do and set their mission to... helping people! V. C. Kitchen talks about how it isn't just sharing your experience - but authentically connecting to another human being. Our role is to help facilitate someone's journey to connect with a God of their understanding. To live a spiritual way of life and incorporate these principles into all tha...

This is the chapter reading of V. C. Kitchen's book I Was a Pagan titled This Business of Being of Use to People with the subtitle of Creativeness. Inspiring others to change has some requirements to allow people to relate to you, and this chapter by V. C. Kitchen tells us about those!

Another fantastic chapter about the reintegration of Kitchen into the world after him spiritual awakening! This is a great account of the different view of the church, before and after his spiritual experience. Building new churches and other religious congregations is a crucial part of the world we live in today and is desperately needed, and Kitchen tells us some important aspects to ensure we b...

This is the chapter reading of V. C. Kitchen's book I Was a Pagan titled This Business of Going to Church with the subtitle of Religion. A chapter that really shines some light in the direction of society today, and the loss of engagement in religious bodies and how to bring it back to life!

This is a chapter about learning how to truly be able to help other people. This chapter brings into the picture the aspect of spiritual help which is lost so often in today's helping professions! "Fear and self-indulgence - the two factors which probably contribute more to ill-health than any others you could name." pg. 210 That is still the truth today, unfortunately I believe even...

This is the chapter reading of V. C. Kitchen's book I Was a Pagan titled This Business of Remaking the World with the subtitle of Sociology. This is a great chapter about how true equality is recognized, and how to find a brotherhood that so many crave today!

Politics, Politics, Politics! Spirituality and Politics is something that is criticized for there being too much or not enough depending on who you talk to so this chapter was a relevant one for me! V. C. Kitchen talks about how more of a God centered practice in politics needs to happen to bring in true growth! This is something that many people feel very strongly about but needs to be talked abo...

This is the chapter reading of V. C. Kitchen's book I Was a Pagan titled This Business of "New Deals" with the subtitle of Politics. This book has some truth in that rings true today and is just a needed or even more needed than it was when written! We must change first!

Mixing business and money with spiritual principles is something that makes many cringe! This chapter gives great examples of why we should do that and also talks about the real reason so many of us choose the job that we do. Not just to do well, but to better than others! This is something that is still needed to be done today, and enough doing this will change the world, including the world of w...

This is the chapter reading of V. C. Kitchen's book I Was a Pagan titled This Business of Making a Living with the subtitle of Economics. This is a chapter that is going to hit home with many as it has to do with a place where many are sensitive - our wallets! This is a chapter about bringing out spiritual living into our business lives and facing the fears that come along with it!

A common struggle of those beginning their spiritual journeys is how do they rebuild their marriage or relationship. V. C .Kitchen's account of how to do this, and the perspective he brings into the conversation is absolutely incredible. The problems he brings into this chapter are problems still talked about today, and helps to realize that these are not new issues, and there is a solution! We ta...

This is the chapter reading of V. C. Kitchen's book I Was a Pagan titled This Business of Being Remarried, with the subtitle of Wedlock. This is a wonderful chapter about marriage and the integrity of marriage. IT gives incredible insight as to the origination of marital problems and touches on some issues we still deal with today with some insight as to grow in your spiritual walk even in you...

A chapter about what the true purpose of education should be! Kitchen talks about how schools educated him to only serve himself and to manipulate the world. Kitchen talks of the need to bring God in as the backbone of the education system to instruct people how to be of service to others and not just themselves. Kitchen talks about his own re-education as well as others who have gone back to scho...

This is the chapter reading of V. C. Kitchen's book I Was a Pagan titled This Business of Starting in School Again, with the subtitle of Education. This chapter focuses on how V. C. Kitchen's education on life was misdirected, and in society as a whole it is misdirected. Kitchen talks about incorporating God into all aspects of education. Kitchen also touches on how people after getting into a spi...

This chapter is about Kitchen's transition from self-serving behavior to a service oriented mindset and his journey to get there! The journey of continuing to surrender to the God of his understanding and following that will in his life. "The soul of reformation is the reformation of the soul..." That is a fantastic quote from this chapter that speaks to the concept of changing yourself to change...

This is the chapter reading of V. C. Kitchen's book I Was a Pagan titled This Business of Living the Other Way Round, with the subtitle of Re-direction. This chapter touches on Kitchen's experience with switching from the externally focused life and self-serving life perspective. Kitchens tells us how he brings God into this world rather than trying to make it look how he thinks it should look. A...

This chapter is about that confusing phase of new living where we begin to have to reorient ourselves to a different way of living! Kitchen shows speaks about striving towards a different ideal and doing the right thing for the right reason. This was such a great thing to relate to for myself, as I had this similar type of experience in my life as well! Have a listen and see if you can relate to t...

This is the chapter reading of V. C. Kitchen's book I Was a Pagan titled This Business of the Being Getting New Bearings, with the subtitle of Reorientation. This chapter is wonderful to read about how he began to live differently, and how that manifested. Kitchen stresses the importance of God in people's ability to change!

This is an incredible chapter describing how the author, V. C. Kitchen, had a spiritual experience. It talks about the Law of Self-Denial, Law of Fellowship, and the Law of Obedience and how those laws began to manifest in his life after encountering the Oxford Group. It was an amazing account of what is possible and how world looks different after this experience. Was a great reminder for myself,...