The relationship between those who have been abused and the church itself are not always what Christ would have them to be.

Too many Christans cannot fully live in their present because they are still too bound up in their past. The Bible gives two very powerful verses on the extreme importance that each and every Christian learn how to fully let go of their past so that they can fly into their calls and destinies from the Lord. Learn what these two verses are and how they can help set you free from your hurtful and painful past.

Read about how our orientation to time profoundly affects the way we are in the world.

Shamans tend to be men {Women have more of these abilities in their natural state and require less altered consciousness.}, though women also can become shamans; some women shamans are extraordinarily powerful. In some cultures, shamans are involuntarily chosen by the spirits; they realize their calling in a transformational experience, often a serious illness that brings them close to death {For example Damion Brinkley of today.} and is self-cured. In other cultures, persons with natural shamanic gifts are selected at a young age, trained and initiated.

Sometimes in our dreams we are visited by a stranger, some ominous personality that we do not recognize and we do not know if this is a good stranger or a not so good stranger. Sometimes we feel a negative energy around us and do not like this feeling. Is this really an angel? Is this really a guide? How do we know who to trust?

Paul lived in a time when Christianity was more respectable church membership. It was more than a handshake and more than shouting amen; it was more than holding an office or singing in the choir. Being a Christian in Paul’s day was a life threatening experience.

It was in the middle of the night and the boat was being tossed in the wind. The crew was stressed...

Rabbi Kushner could not comprehend how a loving, supposedly merciful and compassionate and just God, could allow such a tragedy to befall him and his loved ones. After all, he considered himself a God-fearing, obedient man who was living a more religiously committed life than most people. So how could a God of justice permit so great an injustice?

Gods are energy. To be more precise the various Gods in the various religions represent the various aspects of the common energy that we all share.

What is your prayer of faith missing? Have you lost any blessings from god lately? Are your blessings from God void of your hearts desire?

Prayer is an act of concentration & process of persisting that concentration. Prayer is a realization of our real ‘SELF’ and our own genuine desires and desires...

Thus, we realize and understand that we cannot escape boundaries. Wherever we go and whatever we do, we encounter boundaries of some type. The boundary that we hear about less often is the boundary between line between time and eternity. Death is the great divide.

Did you ever get a feeling or gain notion of a specific situation without any logical explanation? Well, that is your intuition. When you least expect it intuition reaches out and hits you with information that you have no idea were it came from. The problem with this type of feeling or knowledge is that we have no logical explanation for it and often do not follow what it’s trying to tell us. However, many find that when their intuition is over looked, it later proves itself to be a fact and regret not following it. Well, I will tell you about what happened to me when I ignored my intuition.

If we will abide in the Word, the Word will instruct us and teach us in the way we should go (Psalm 32:8). He will also guide us to pray according to His will and our prayers will have a guaranteed effect.

I thought I would draw this article up as a reference page in the event any of you would ever need, at a quick glance, exactly what the 10 commandments are. I will actually type out the specific Bible verse the 10 commandments comes off of as God makes some additional statements under some of these commandments that is usually not written down when you see little tablets of the 10 commandments at your local Christian bookstore.

Do we really think we can just ask God for some great position in life with out any preparation? Not hardly. Psalm 107 tells us that God sometimes brings storms into our lives to accomplish a purpose in us. And that purpose, I believe, is to prepare us for greater things.

Do you realize you are creating your future by the very attitude you possess?

All is consciousness. The scriptures are the Creature's manual on how to use consciousness. There are four gospels that correspond to the four aspects of your consciousness: memory, thought, feeling, and action... as the higher law of God, his mind, and heart, and works.

Let’s say that you have discovered your purpose but you don’t know how to go about obtaining God’s purpose for your life. You don’t know what to do next. How do you start? How do you go about changing from your present occupation to finding a career using the purpose God gave you?

The symptoms of stress and anxiety syndrome are hot topics in medical circles and are the subjects of extensive research. The more that science and the medical community learns about the negative health effects of stress and anxiety the clearer it becomes that this is an issue that personally effects us all.

If you don't watch what you say when you talk to yourself, you could be talking yourself out of success. Here are a couple of simple strategies, you can use to make sure you are saying the right things when you talk to yourself.

When faced with a stressful situation do you let it dictate your actions? Do you ever completely lose it and yell in frustration at others? Fight just to prove you’re right? Assume an action was intentional? Take things personally and sulk? These are just some of the negative emotional reactions USE IT is designed to relieve—forever. Rather than fighting against stress, you can learn to take any given situation and USE IT to your advantage. USE IT is an easy, life-tested five-thought approach that works in the office, at home, on the road—and everywhere in between.

Stress management techniques don't have to be complex or hard to learn. Here are 10 tips that can help to reduce your stress levels. They are so easy to do that, if you are not already doing them, you can start using them today.