A universal assembly for true discernment
Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Billy SintirisTitle: “Transcending the Individual Self”
Description: Rev. Billy spoke about the fact that we can use the adversity of our present experience to deepen our Surrender, as we take each experience and bring it to its false god to a Baptism of Neutrality.
Reading: Joseph Schmitz read excerpts from NTI 2 Corinthians.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Marisol LandinTitle: “The Bottomless Pit”
Description: Rev. Marisol took a direct look at the bottomless pit of the ego/mind’s desires. She shared how the ego’s expectations of spiritual practice and awakening never match up to what is. The road can get bumpy as we stumble into clarity and grace.
Reading: Lin Castaldo read from The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament (NTI) Mark, Ch. 5 v1-20, and John, Ch.9 & 10.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Kelly BarberTitle: “You Cannot Stop the Waves, But You Can Learn to Surf!”
Description: Often as we navigate our way through difficult times, we are filled with resistance and a sense that something “has gone terribly wrong.” This is one way in which things are not as they appear where an upheaval is a blessing in disguise.
Reading: Joy Bedford read Chapter 5, “Intimacy with Fear” from When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Michele HojnackiTitle: “Divine Selfishness”
Description: Yeshua said, “If you ever want to come home, you’re going to have to become divinely selfish.” What is divine selfishness and how can that serve our awakening?
Reading: Diane Denomme read from Michael Singers’ The Untethered Soul, The Path of Unconditional Happiness.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. George Maddox
Title: “I’m Ok, You’re Ok”
Description: There is a book entitled I’m Ok, You’re Ok. For almost all of us, it doesn’t seem that way, until it does. One of the major goals of awakening is to truly know that everything that seems to be happening is, by design, guiding us to that realization. Rev. George explored the truth that conscious awareness, the Oneness within each of us, is showing us the way.
Reading: Inka Omholt read a message written by Gina Lake entitled “Jesus Speaking, On Being in the World”. Here’s a link to the message by Gina Lake: Click Here
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Cyndi Krupp
Title: “Choose I”
Description: Rev. Cyndi Krupp explored what it means to “choose” – and how we can use the power of choice to enhance our individual lives as well as Awaken Together.
Reading: Rona Marren read excerpts from The Teachings of Inner Ramana.
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Weekly Gathering with Rev. Jacquelyn EckertTitle: “Only Persons Can Be Bad”
Description: Rev. Jacquelyn discussed releasing the “I am Bad” Belief by releasing the belief in personhood.
Reading: Connie Poole read from The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament (NTI) 1 Timothy.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Beverly Toporowski
Title: “Listening to Only Truth”
Description: What happens when we are willing to listen to only Truth? What are we giving up when we hand over our own understanding, our thoughts, our fears, and our feelings about what we have accepted as truth? Rev. Beverly explored the miracle of what it means to listen.
Reading: Melody Brauninger read The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament (NTI) Luke Chapter 24.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Cyndi Krupp
Title: “Turning Around”
Description: One description for the ego is “consciousness turning away from God”. Rev. Cyndi Krupp explored what happens when we set the intention to turn back.
Reading: Yvonne Unger read an excerpt from Adyashanti’s The Way of Liberation.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Rhoda Makled
Title: “Back to Basics”
Description: What is it that we are actually seeking? What does uninterrupted peace mean? How do we block our own awareness of our very nature? Rev. Rhoda Makled looked deeply at the nature of what we are and how it is that we overlook, resist, and forget this true nature.
Reading: John Wetzel read “Uninterrupted Peace” from Chapter 3 of the book Awake: It’s Your Turn by Angelo Dilullo.
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