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Dear People Whom God Loves, GOD IS LOVE– VI Let us now look at how fear negatively impacts our spiritual journey of growing in love. Let us suppose that we do good things—including religious good things—because we are afraid of going to hell.  Then we are not doing them because they are good and loving […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, GOD IS LOVE – III We turn now to understand more deeply about what God is Love tells us about the mission of the church.  Jesus’ commission to his disciples was to make disciples of all nations.  Being a disciple of Jesus means to follow in Jesus’ footsteps and to […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE Recently, the Catholic bishops of Minnesota sent DVD’s about gay marriage to Catholics throughout our state.  This is an issue that will not go away soon.  It touches something deep inside of us.  This means that we will have strong emotional reactions regardless of which […]

July 25, 2010 Dear People Whom God Loves, HOW DO I IMAGE GOD – III This concludes this series. We will look at how the various images of God affect the brain. Whatever affects the brain, affects the way we perceive reality and in turn affects the way we live. I think that some of […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, HOW DO I IMAGE GOD-I We will first look at the Baylor study of how Americans image God. They divided the responses into four groups. The study was based on religious beliefs and used human tracts in asking how they thought about God. For example: do you think of God […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, SEVENTEEN STAGES OF EVIL-II  (See the 17 stages as listed in the June 27th letter) When I look at the first five stages, I see value and dangers. I think that they are valuable in forming a community. I see danger in not doing them respectfully or in not consulting […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, SEVENTEEN STAGES OF EVIL I I invite you to ponder this quotation from the book Born to Believe by Andrew Newberg M.D. and Mark Robert Waidman. Dr. Newberg is an expert in the working of our human brain. This quote seems reasonable to me and pondering of it can help […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, GOD’S INTERACTION WITH THE WORLD – XIV I see prayer as fundamentally aligning our human will with God’s will. As we surrender our will to God’s will, there will always be at least a gradual change in us. Prayer is concerned with changing us…not in changing God. I see that […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, ABORTION IMMIGRATION Abortion and immigration are two issues which seriously divide our country. Perhaps there is no perfect solution that the whole county can embrace. In politics, we are often left to do what is possible. We need to state our positions honestly and firmly. We also need to listen […]