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	<description><![CDATA[<p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">Dear friends and colleagues</span></b><span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">:</span></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">My author and friend, Dr. Jeff Wattles, is a</span><span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">professional philosopher of a rare sort.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;"><img alt="" height="36" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">&ldquo;The magnum opus of one of today&rsquo;s most important Christian philosophers.&rdquo;</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">&mdash;</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Stephen Post, PhD,</span></b><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">author,</span><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></span><i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People</span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">&ldquo;A rare work of grace and love that embodies the virtues it seeks to communicate.&rdquo;</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">&mdash;Matthew T. Lee, PhD</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">, Professor of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Baylor University</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">&ldquo;Seekers of all backgrounds will find Jesus living on these pages as we&rsquo;ve never seen him before.&rdquo;</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">&mdash;<span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">Angie Thurston</span></span></b><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: inherit; color: black;">Ministry Innovation Fellow,&nbsp;<a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fschool%2Fharvard-divinity-school%2F%3Ftrk%3Dpublic_profile_experience-item_profile-section-card_subtitle-click&amp;data=05%7C02%7C%7Ca216fc9d952e4f25e38208ddf48f6b77%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638935619031833375%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=9rZz2UX4Uc0VLe4OgsPBN8x7o5QvAqHNznNK1vh1PHw%3D&amp;reserved=0" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" title="Protected by Outlook: https://www.linkedin.com/school/harvard-divinity-school/?trk=public_profile_experience-item_profile-section-card_subtitle-click. Click or tap to follow the link."><span style="font-size: inherit; color: black;">Harvard Divinity School</span></a></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">Dear friends and colleagues</span></b><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">:</span></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">My author and friend, Dr. Jeff Wattles, is a</span><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">professional philosopher of a rare sort.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">He has spent most of his lifetime studying and trying to live the gospel of Jesus. Wattles is also a highly trained ethicist and a passionate evangelist.</span><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">His previous book entitled</span><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></span><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">The Golden Rule</span></i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">, published by Oxford University Press</span><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">several decades ago, is still considered definitive by many.</span><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">He also can be an electrifying teacher, as you can see in this</span><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">very</span><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;"><a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjoyandliberty.org%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7C%7Ca216fc9d952e4f25e38208ddf48f6b77%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638935619031856693%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=J8kf4dm%2Bx6ZBgiEyy2Ohgg32iRqyDf784UwsOzmdHBw%3D&amp;reserved=0" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" title="Protected by Outlook: https://joyandliberty.org/. Click or tap to follow the link."><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(150, 96, 125);">short video here</span></a></span><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">(scroll down).</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">His newest book,&nbsp;<b>A Taste of Joy and Liberty: A Philosopher Encounters the Gospel of Jesus</b>, is the capstone of a distinguished career.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">I am proud to announce that it is out TODAY from my company, Origin Press</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);"><a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FTaste-Joy-Liberty-Philosopher-Encounters%2Fdp%2F1579830641%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7C%7Ca216fc9d952e4f25e38208ddf48f6b77%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638935619031870932%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=HRlmdBNfVP3CEzN1YY0%2BOFY3mSlB1sqfNemStPbyi1Y%3D&amp;reserved=0" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" title="Protected by Outlook: https://www.amazon.com/Taste-Joy-Liberty-Philosopher-Encounters/dp/1579830641/. Click or tap to follow the link."><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">Available at Amazon</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">&nbsp;</span></b></span><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">(ships September 15)</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><strong><span style="font-size: inherit; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0in 0.8in 0.0001pt 0.3in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);"><img alt="" height="482" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/88456/master/" style="margin: 4px 12px; float: left;" width="310">Discover anew the living Jesus&mdash;our world&rsquo;s greatest teacher&mdash;in this riveting work of short, lucid chapters that explore his life.&nbsp;<span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">And learn how to follow in the way of Jesus&rsquo;s example: living the gospel of love in the kingdom of God, and knowing the joy of serving in God&rsquo;s universal family.&nbsp;</span>Authored by a university professor and gospel evangelist, this unique depiction shows us how to live like Jesus: fresh, alive, original, spontaneous&mdash;and as a wellspring of&nbsp;love, mercy, and service.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">Paperback: $18.00 / eBook: $9.99 &bull; Origin Press &bull; 270 pages</span><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></span><br />
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Click or tap to follow the link."><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(150, 96, 125);">JoyAndLiberty.org</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 22pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 22pt; color: black;">&bull;</span><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 22pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;"><a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FTaste-Joy-Liberty-Philosopher-Encounters%2Fdp%2F1579830641%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7C%7Ca216fc9d952e4f25e38208ddf48f6b77%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638935619031898059%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=5eekKOqNtarNj576su6j5FVYT3pgKu2n1dKsiGDQbiM%3D&amp;reserved=0" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" title="Protected by Outlook: https://www.amazon.com/Taste-Joy-Liberty-Philosopher-Encounters/dp/1579830641/. Click or tap to follow the link."><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(150, 96, 125);">Available at Amazon</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></b></span><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">(ships on September 15)</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Jeffrey Wattles, PhD, a retired professor of philosophy at Kent State University, has focused<img alt="" height="200" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/88455/master/" style="margin: 4px 12px; float: right;" width="200"> with heart and mind on the gospel of Jesus for over fifty years. He is best known as the author of&nbsp;<i>The Golden Rule&nbsp;</i>(Oxford University Press, 1996) and&nbsp;<i>Living in Truth, Beauty, and Goodness&nbsp;</i>(Cascade, 2016). Dr. Wattles has led more than three thousand students through experiential projects in philosophy and religion. His degrees are in philosophy from Stanford and Northwestern.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: inherit; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">Part I:</span><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">&nbsp;</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">The Human Jesus Grows to Full Maturity and Launches His Public Ministry</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">Part II:</span><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">&nbsp;</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">The Son of Man Teaches His Original Message</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">Part III:</span><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">&nbsp;</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">The Son of God Reveals His Divinity</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">Part IV:</span><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">&nbsp;</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">The Resurrected Jesus Continues His Work Through Us</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">&ldquo;This compelling exploration will help readers grow closer to Jesus.&rdquo;</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">&mdash;</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Stephen Finlan, PhD,</span></b><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">UCC pastor; noted biblical scholar</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">&ldquo;This masterful book lets us more fully understand the life of Jesus.&rdquo;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><b>&mdash;</b></span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(24, 11, 60);">Rev. Hoyte L. Wilhelm</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(24, 11, 60);">,</span><span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(24, 11, 60);">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(20, 20, 19);">elder of the United Methodist Church</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(20, 20, 19);">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: inherit; color: black;">&ldquo;This book is saturated with hope. Jesus&#39;s promise of joy, love, and freedom is palpable on every page.&quot;<br />
&mdash;</span><b><span style="font-size: inherit; color: black;">Rev. Paul McKenna,&nbsp;</span></b><span style="font-size: inherit; color: black;">creator of the<b>&nbsp;</b>interfaith Golden Rule Poster; interfaith pioneer</span></p><p style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">ALL ENDORSEMENTS</span></span></b><span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">&ldquo;This work is the magnum opus of one of today&rsquo;s most important Christian philosophers. For two decades I have followed the work of the author, who is among the most devoted Christian and spiritual teachers alive today. Jeffrey Wattles presents a highly developed perspective on Christian living that will be a guide for the perplexed.&rdquo;</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">&mdash;Stephen G. Post, PhD,</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">Founding Director, Center for Medical Humanities, Stony Brook University; author,&nbsp;<i>Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People&nbsp;</i>and<span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">&nbsp;</span><i>Pure, Unlimited Love</i></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><br />
<span style="font-size: 16pt; color: black;">&ldquo;Written with great imagination and care, this creative book shows how an attentive relationship with Jesus is able to inspire people&mdash;from committed Christians to seekers from other religious traditions&mdash;to live a more joyful and flourishing life.&nbsp;But while many books merely inform or inspire, this one delivers on its promise to help readers actively cultivate a faithful&nbsp;<i>practice</i>.&nbsp;It is a rare work of grace and love that embodies the virtues it seeks to communicate.&rdquo;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">&mdash;Matthew T. Lee, PhD</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">, Professor of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Baylor University</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><br />
<span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">&ldquo;This book shows us Jesus with the mind of a scientist, the heart of a philosopher, and the spirit of a peacemaker. Seekers of all backgrounds&mdash;and especially independent thinkers&mdash;will find Jesus living on these pages as we&rsquo;ve never seen him before, inviting us to bring our whole selves to a life of love and the liberating quest for truth.&rdquo;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">&mdash;</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Angie Thurston</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Harvard&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">Fellow in Spirituality and Leadership</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">; Executive Director, Sacred Design Lab</span></p><p style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><br />
<span style="font-size: 16pt; color: black;">&ldquo;I needed to read this book. Jeff Wattles&rsquo;s passion for Jesus is infectious. And it has infected me. I do not need another intellectual treatise about Jesus, but rather a way to deepen my relationship with Jesus, and this book has done just that for me. If you are serious about spiritual&nbsp;growth, this book is for you. If you are keen to experience the love, freedom, and joy promised by&nbsp;Jesus, read this hope-filled book cover-to-cover.&rdquo;</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">&mdash;Paul McKenna, MDiv,&nbsp;</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">creator of the<b>&nbsp;</b></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">interfaith Golden Rule Poster; 50-year interfaith veteran</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><br />
<span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">&ldquo;</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: inherit;">This is a compelling exploration of the teachings and the faith of Jesus. Wattles brings out the elements of joy and spiritual growth that are central to the gospel. This book will help people grow closer to Jesus by understanding his choices, his priorities, and his inner peace.&rdquo;</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: inherit;">&mdash;Stephen Finlan, PhD,</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: inherit;">&nbsp;UCC Pastor; biblical studies scholar, author of&nbsp;<i>Salvation Not Purchased</i>,&nbsp;<i>The Family Metaphor in Jesus&rsquo; Teaching</i>, and&nbsp;<i>The Drama of Job</i></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 14pt; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">&ldquo;Dr. Wattles&rsquo;s work offers&nbsp;readers a masterful and beautifully written book integrating heart, mind, and soul that allows us to more fully understand the life of Jesus. [It reveals] the great potential for people to live lives of love, goodness, and joy with others through the risen Christ&mdash;in a world that so desperately yearns for us to do so.&rdquo;</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">&mdash;Rev. Hoyte L. Wilhelm,</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">&nbsp;retired elder of the United Methodist Church &nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 16pt; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">&ldquo;As an engineer and inventor with 33 patents, I appreciate Jeff Wattles&rsquo; logical extrapolations from the biblical narrative. These include his fascinating inferences about the missing years of Jesus&rsquo;s life, Jesus&rsquo;s scientific attitude toward nature and society, and the philosophical depths of the gospel. Wattles, in contrast with other philosophers of religion, utilizes these extrapolations to suggest new ways for human cooperation with the divine, and he even unveils to the reader their own inner potential for emulating Jesus&rsquo;s curiosity and willingness to explore things scientific. In addition, the author explains to the reader how to explore truth in its fullness. First, we must distinguish his more adventuresome philosophic approach from the dangers of extreme dogmatism and skepticism. And then we must set out with a spiritual core and a scientific periphery, and then build a philosophical bridge between them.&rdquo;&nbsp;<b>&nbsp;</b></span><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">&mdash;Geoff Taylor</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: black;">&ldquo;Jeffrey Wattles masterfully bridges history, philosophy, and spirituality, inviting readers to discover Jesus in a whole new light.&rdquo;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 14pt; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">&mdash;Brad Jagger,&nbsp;</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">senior pastor</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">&nbsp;and adjunct professor</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: black;">&ldquo;The book is<span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">&nbsp;</span>organized<span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">&nbsp;</span>as if we were learning along with Jesus&mdash;about daily<span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">&nbsp;</span>life, spirituality,<span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">&nbsp;</span>personal relationships, and one&rsquo;s relationship with the Creator. The author even invites us to<span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">&nbsp;</span>contemplate<span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">&nbsp;</span>the nature of truth, beauty, and goodness as an avenue within prayer, aiding us in discerning God&rsquo;s love and guidance as we seek to do his will in our daily life. What I find most<span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">&nbsp;</span>attractive is the author&rsquo;s agenda of getting the<span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">&nbsp;movement for the&nbsp;</span>gospel<span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">&nbsp;</span>of Jesus back on track, emboldened<span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">&nbsp;</span>by his advocacy for<span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">&nbsp;</span>spiritual unity, interreligious dialogue, spirit-filled values, and especially hope and faith in Jesus&rsquo; spirit guidance.&rdquo;</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">&mdash;Pamela Chaddock,&nbsp;</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">interdisciplinary activist and<b>&nbsp;</b>lay theologian</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 16pt; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: inherit;">&ldquo;</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: inherit;">What a refreshing voice for reason and compassion in an age of sound bites and clickbait! Dr. Wattles&rsquo;s imparts fresh interpretations to the wealth of familiar facts about Jesus&rsquo;s life and teaching. Interestingly, he includes a chapter on &lsquo;Jesus&rsquo;s Scientific Knowledge&rsquo; and endorses reason and science as compatible with faith. Wattles writes from years of both scholarly research and practical classroom teaching experience. The book is very accessible with short, clearly written chapters and questions that allow the reader to engage more deeply. Here is a sincere and fresh voice from a philosopher who is also a spiritual believer.&rdquo;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">&mdash;Bettina Gray,</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">&nbsp;interfaith leader and co-founder of the North American Interfaith Network&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: black;">&ldquo;Jeff Wattles offers us a deeper appreciation of the gospel of Jesus! Living according to that gospel requires that we first experience the power of God&rsquo;s unconditional love. Jeff also shows that Jesus brought a richer, deeper perspective in our understanding of the nature of God. For all of that I am grateful!&rdquo;</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 14pt; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">&mdash;Gard Jameson, PhD</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">, Professor of Asian Philosophy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: black;">&ldquo;This work helps deepens our relationship with God by illuminating the way of Jesus, which leads us to experience deeper spiritual unity with our fellows, especially those very different from us.&nbsp;Professor Wattles reveals how to<span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">&nbsp;</span>live<span style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit;"><i>&nbsp;</i>according to&nbsp;</span>the greatest law of all: love God and love your neighbor as yourself.&rdquo;</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">&mdash;Pastor Mary Blessing,&nbsp;</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">Episcopal Priest in the Diocese of El Camino Real</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;"><img alt="" height="111" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" width="1000"></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: inherit;">&nbsp;</span></p>]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 19:25:46 -0400</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[A Call for Support: Empowering Children and Communities through the Urantia Book Teachings]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<div style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 5px; border-left: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px;"><div style="font-size: 14.4px;"><p style="font-size: 14.4px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24px;">A Call for Support: Empowering Children and Communities through the Urantia Book Teachings</span></p><p style="font-size: 14.4px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></p><p style="font-size: 14.4px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><img alt="" height="1024" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/53572/master/" width="1024"></span></p><p style="font-size: 14.4px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #0000FF;"><strong>To all well-wishers, friends, brothers, and sisters,</strong></span><br />
We are reaching out for support as we continue to make a difference in the lives of 400 children through our organization, <a href="https://spiritualfamily.net/groups/profile/32015/fer-ascenders-urantia-book-fellowship-kaliro-uganda" target="_blank">FIFTH EPOCH REVELATIONS (FER) ASCENDERS&rsquo; FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY KALIRO UGANDA</a>. Our mission is to provide basic education, integrated with the Urantia Book teachings, to these vulnerable children through our <a href="https://spiritualfamily.net/groups/profile/53557/fer-integrated-community%C2%A0school" target="_blank">FIFTH EPOCH REVELATIONS INTEGRATED ORPHANAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL PROJECT</a>.</span><br />
&nbsp;</p><p style="font-size: 14.4px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Our Programs:</strong><br />
Orphanage Community School Project: Providing education to 400 children, with 370 supported by donations and grants.</span></p><p style="font-size: 14.4px;"><br />
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://spiritualfamily.net/groups/profile/39337/one-family-women%E2%80%99s-corps-africa" target="_blank"><img alt="" height="200" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/39355/master/" style="margin: 6px 12px; float: left;" width="200"></a></span></p><p style="font-size: 14.4px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-size: 14.4px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://spiritualfamily.net/groups/profile/39337/one-family-women%E2%80%99s-corps-africa" target="_blank">F</a></span><span style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://spiritualfamily.net/groups/profile/39337/one-family-women%E2%80%99s-corps-africa" target="_blank">ER Women Readers Community</a>: Empowering women through the Urantia Book teachings.<br />
Children&rsquo;s Ministry: Nurturing the spiritual growth of children.</span></p><p style="font-size: 14.4px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-size: 14.4px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-size: 14.4px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-size: 14.4px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Elderly Care Community Fellowship: Supporting the elderly in our community.</span><br />
&nbsp;</p><p style="font-size: 14.4px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Our Needs:</strong><br />
Completing our Library and Headquarters: We need approximately $5000 to finish the construction. Annual Budget Deficit for the school project: We have a deficit of 25,724,000 UGX (approximately $7,000 USD) to cover our annual budget of 44,129,000 UGX.</span><br />
&nbsp;</p><p style="font-size: 14.4px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>How You Can Help:</strong><br />
We invite you to join us in making a difference in the lives of these children and communities. Your donation can help us:<br />
Support the education and well-being of our children.<br />
Complete our library and headquarters.<br />
Continue our programs and services.<br />
Donate Now:<br />
You can contribute to our cause through our GoFundMe page:</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(0, 128, 128);"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/combination-orphanage-and-school?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&amp;utm_content=undefined&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=customer-andr&amp;utm_term=undefined" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 28px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);" target="_blank"><img alt="" height="300" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/55238/master/" style="font-size: 28px;" width="290"></a></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/combination-orphanage-and-school?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&amp;utm_content=undefined&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=customer-andr&amp;utm_term=undefined" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 18px;">Dick Bain GoFundMe Fundraiser</a></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 15px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">FER ASCENDERS MAIN GROUP</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 15px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Or here on Spiritual Family Network</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 15px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><a href="https://spiritualfamily.net/campaigns/view/33521/about/fer-ascenders-urantia-book-fellowship-kaliro-uganda-campaign-fundraiser" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);" target="_blank"><img alt="" height="300" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/33523/master/" style="font-size: 14.4px;" width="290"></a></p><p style="font-size: 14.4px;"><br />
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Every Contribution Counts:</strong></span></p><p style="font-size: 14.4px;"><br />
<span style="font-size: 18px;">Whether you can give a little or a lot, your support will go a long way in empowering these children and communities. We are grateful for your kindness and generosity.</span><br />
&nbsp;</p><p style="font-size: 14.4px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Thank you for considering our appeal. Together, we can make a difference!</span><br />
&nbsp;</p><p style="font-size: 14.4px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>We take our inspirations from Urantia Book teachings:</strong><br />
The Urantia Book teachings on education emphasize a holistic approach, focusing on intellectual, moral, and spiritual growth. Key principles include:<br />
Holistic Development: Education should foster intellectual maturity, moral integrity, and spiritual enlightenment.<br />
Practical Training: Hands-on experience and apprenticeship-style learning are valuable methods.<br />
Respect for Individuality: Learners should be encouraged to discover and grow at their own pace.<br />
Lifelong Learning: Education is a continuous process, not limited to formal schooling.<br />
<a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_071.html#71:7.1" target="_blank">Paper 71:7: Discusses the purpose of education</a>, highlighting the acquisition of skill, pursuit of wisdom, realization of selfhood, and attainment of spiritual values (806.1).<br />
Paper 82:0: Emphasizes the importance of family as a master civilizer and educational institution (913.2-913.3).<br />
Paper 84:0: Highlights the role of home building in educational effort (931.1).<br />
<a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_100.html#100:0.1" target="_blank">Paper 100:1: Offers insights on teaching children and the importance of loyalty in adult-child relationships</a> (1094.5, 1094.6).</span><br />
&nbsp;</p><p style="font-size: 14.4px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Additionally, The Urantia Book provides guidance on raising children in God&rsquo;s image, emphasizing.</strong><br />
<strong>Moral Values:</strong> Teaching children about truth, beauty, and goodness.<br />
<strong>Spiritual Growth:</strong> Fostering a sense of security, love, and trust through the concept of God as a loving Father.<br />
<strong>Intellectual Development:</strong> Nurturing curiosity and encouraging lifelong learning.</span></p><p style="font-size: 14.4px;"><br />
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>These teachings can be applied in various ways, such as:</strong><br />
Creation Collage: Encouraging children to represent their understanding of the universe and God&rsquo;s creation.<br />
The Loving Gardener: Teaching children about God&rsquo;s care through gardening activities.<br />
Moral Treasure Hunt: Promoting moral values and ethical conduct.</span><br />
&nbsp;</p><p style="font-size: 14.4px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Sincerely,<br />
Gumpi Andrew Cohen<br />
CEO, FIFTH EPOCH REVELATIONS (FER) ASCENDERS&rsquo; FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY KALIRO UGANDA.</span></p></div></div><div style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 5px; border-left: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 14.4px;"><div style="font-size: 14.4px;"><div style="font-size: 14.4px;"><div style="font-size: 14.4px; float: left;">&nbsp;</div><div style="padding: 15px; font-size: 14.4px;"><h3><img alt="" height="420" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/88450/master/" style="margin: 6px 12px; float: left;" width="740"></h3>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; font-size: 14.4px;"><p style="margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px; font-size: 12.96px;">Hi, my name is Richard Bain, and I&#39;m fundraising for a combined orphanage and school to &hellip; Richard Bain needs your support for Combination Orphanage and School</p></div></div></div></div></div></div>]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 03:32:59 -0400</pubDate>
	<link>https://spiritualfamily.net/blog/view/88436/body-soul-and-spirit-salvation-and-perfection</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Body, Soul and Spirit: Salvation and Perfection]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0.5em;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;">A human being is made up of body, soul and spirit. (And of course, there are the aspects of mind and heart.) Your body cannot get born again (or born from above; salvation). It is of the earth (dust) and it will return to the earth after you leave this earthly realm. &quot;Dust to dust.&quot; (Ecclesiastes 12:7)</div></div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0.5em;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;">It is your soul that gets born again. Your spirit (Job 32:8) cannot get born again because in actuality, your spirit is the still small voice within; the Inner Voice; the candle light or lamp of God within; the spirit of God the Father in you - that comes into you when you attain the age of accountability and make your first real moral decision; usually between the ages of 4 and 6. Your spirit is your Thought Adjuster.</div></div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0.5em;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;">Your spirit within you does the actual work of soul transformation from spiritual death to spiritual life (from death to life). This is why Jesus Christ taught us that we are born of water and of the spirit. This &quot;spirit&quot; is your spirit - the Father&#39;s spirit already in you; waiting for you - your soul to come home to the Father. The spirit transforms your soul in the spiritual water, fountain of life within.</div></div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0.5em;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;">Your real &quot;you&quot; is your soul. Hence, &quot;the soul that sins, shall die&quot;. (Ezekiel 18:20a) Please, take note: it says, &quot;the soul that sins&quot; NOT &quot;the spirit that sins&quot;. The spirit (your spirit) is God (or is as God) and cannot sin. Your spirit is the image of God in you and works in you to get you - your soul to become born again and very slowly but surely become perfect as the Father in heaven is perfect. You cannot attain the Father&#39;s perfection in one lifetime. However, one day, in the heavenly realms, YOU will!</div></div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0.5em;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;">At death (death of your physical body), your spirit returns back to God who gave it. (Ecclesiastes 12:7) and will be reunited with your soul at resurrection and they will live in your new heavenly body. If you reject God&#39;s salvation the spirit does not return. And your soul shall surely die - eternal separation from God; spiritual death. The soul shall surely die if all attempts to salvage it fails. This soul death is the second death. (Revelation 20:14) The first death is the death of a body. The second death is the death of a soul.</div></div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0.5em;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;">Glory! Hallelujah!</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/onelove?__eep__=6&amp;__cft__[0]=AZVFsqYWtwbEcYnp8uhIEQgDtBdGiZeUIKkzo5vDOf_W4KiiEVNHZaO2upfCrkSzn5t4_fHopppyYsDwq6AwPksqN8cNsduay4_u9AnrbiojrnHto7rQDBIY3pocxycgo8O7wm2kiBV0NztjrIylV4GMqSx2crk1LlamyPX0XQOX1w&amp;__tn__=*NK-R" style="color: var(--accent); cursor: pointer; text-align: inherit;" tabindex="0">#OneLove</a></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</div></div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0.5em;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;">NB:</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;">And Jesus said, &quot;The kingdom of God is within you.&quot; It&#39;s within you because of your spirit, the spirit of the Father, the still small voice that is already within you. You just need to connect to the spirit by faith.</div></div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0.5em;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;">Sincerely,</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;">Pastor Karo Kanye Akamune</div></div><p style="margin-bottom: 3px; font-style: normal; font-size: 28px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><br />
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	<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 14:30:07 -0400</pubDate>
	<link>https://spiritualfamily.net/blog/view/88415/epochal-revelations</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Epochal Revelations]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Humans have been living on Earth for about one million years now. So far, we have had five major Epochal Revelations:</span><span style="font-size: large;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">(1) The First Epochal Revelation is: the coming of our Planetary Prince and the Dalamatia Civilization he established. He was the initial prince of this world, Earth - Prince Caligastia. Sadly he rebelled. The Apostle Paul called him, &quot;the prince of the power of the air&quot;. After he fell, he proclaimed himself, &quot;the god of Urantia&quot;. He came here about 500,000 years ago.&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Prince Caligastia joined Lucifer to rebel against the heavenly Father and Christ Michael about 200,000 years ago. This means he was loyal to God on Earth for about 300,000 years. He lived in the spirit realm. He was not visible to mortals. Some of us believe he was removed from planet Earth and judged in 1998. This is based on updated universe current affairs. He is no more on Earth, even though some of his wicked works are still here. &nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">(2) The Second Epochal Revelation is: Adam and Eve and their work. This couple arrived on Earth about 38,000 years ago as full grown adults. A body of flesh and blood was made for each of them and they were placed in a garden, &quot;The Garden of Eden&quot;. They came from the heavenly realms.&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">(3) The Third Epochal Revelation is: Machiventa Melchizedek and his teachings. &quot;Melchizedek&quot; came here from the heavenly realms. A physical body was prepared for him to live in or incarnate in. He came as a full grown adult male about 4,000 years ago in the days of Abraham. He belongs to the order of Sons of God known as, &quot;The Order of Melchizedek&quot;. He was not born. He did not die. He dropped his physical body and left after his mortal mission was over.&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">(4) The Fourth Epochal Revelation is: Christ Michael, incarnated as Jesus or Yeshua - Jesus and his teachings. He came here from the heavenly realms about 2,000 years ago. He was born, incarnated as a babe. He lived, died, resurrected and ascended to heaven.&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">(5) The Fifth Epochal Revelation is: The Urantia Book. In heaven, &quot;Urantia&quot; is the name our planet, Earth is called. This book was given to us in 1934, getting close to 100 years ago. It&#39;s authors are unseen heavenly, godly beings.&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Psalm 147:4&nbsp;</span></b></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Berean Study Bible&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">&quot;He determines the number of the stars; He calls them each by name.&quot;&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">In heaven, planet Earth is known as, &quot;Urantia&quot;.&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">You can read or listen to the entire Urantia Book online. You can download as well at:</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">UrantiaBook.org and Urantia.org</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>One love</span><span>&nbsp;and peace</span><span>&nbsp;on the trail!</span><br />
<span>Sincerely,&nbsp;<br />
- Pastor Karo Kanye Akamune</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><div style="font-size: 14.4px;"><div style="font-size: 14.4px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 3px; font-style: normal; font-size: 28px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 28px;">Learn more about the Christ Michael center</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-size: 17px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 17px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 17px;">The Christ Michael Center:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.christmichaelcenter.org/" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 17px;">http://www.christmichaelcenter.org</a><br />
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://spiritualfamily.net/blog/view/88413/discerning-the-still-small-voice-within</guid>
	<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 06:31:35 -0400</pubDate>
	<link>https://spiritualfamily.net/blog/view/88413/discerning-the-still-small-voice-within</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Discerning The Still Small Voice Within]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><strong><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Your Thought Adjuster!</span></i></strong></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">What is the still small voice? The still small voice within you is not your conscience; is not the Holy Spirit and is not the Son (Christ). The still small voice within you is the Inner Voice, the voice of God the Father to your soul. It is &quot;God in man&quot;. This is your spirit - &quot;the spirit in man&quot;. Some people say, &quot;the higher self&quot;.&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">In the Bible, this is the voice that Elijah heard in I Kings 19:12,13. This is the voice that the little child, Samuel heard in I Samuel 3. This is the voice that manifested in an apparition above Jesus on the day of his physical water baptism and spoke, &ldquo;This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.&rdquo; This is the still small voice that people from all walks of life, all over the world have heard, from deep within them.&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Your still small voice, Inner Voice, Thought Adjuster, divine spark or pilot light always speaks to you from within you. From my experience, it&#39;s sometimes from within your belly or your belly area, deep within. Sometimes, the message seems to come from your mind - deep within. Sometimes, you may hear the Father&#39;s Voice around you, close to you. It can also manifest outside you, in an apparition, hovering above you. This happened to Jesus at the river Jordan on the day of his baptism.&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Similar apparitions sometimes happen to people around the world in their personal spiritual experiences. I had a divine encounter where this indwelling spirit of the Father manifested in an apparition, hovering above me. The spirit took the form of a total and complete golden figurine or statuette of a bald male. Pure, pristine, perfect gold from top to bottom, face looking down at me. Sweet anointing like electricity or oil was flowing up and down repeatedly all over me. It was electric! It was energizing! It was very, very powerful! Hallelujah!&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">&quot;The Voice&quot; always speaks from within, deep within. If you hear a voice in your left ear, usually, it&#39;s your angel or some angels speaking to you. Sometimes, I hear angels speaking to me in my left ear. In the case of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, &quot;the voice in the Garden&quot; was a faithful and loyal angel of God, interacting with the couple. The name of that angel is Solonia, a seraphim - according to the Urantia Book. (Please, see paper 75:8.8.) By the way, we all know that angels can also make themselves visible and speak with a human being.&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>There are differences between the Inner Voice (still small voice), the voice of an angel, the voice of the Holy Spirit, the voice of Jesus Christ, etc. Sometimes, it may be hard to tell the difference. The most important thing is that we get the messages being delivered, meditate on them and act on them appropriately. However, knowing who actually spoke has its own amazing benefits... Learn more of and about the still small voice within you, your Thought Adjuster, in the Urantia Book, papers 107 to 112. Blessings flow!</span><span>&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Cheers, y&#39;all!</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span>Love </span></span><span>and peace</span><span>&nbsp;on the trail!&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Sincerely,&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">- Pastor Karo Kanye Akamune&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 3px; font-style: normal; font-size: 28px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 28px;">Learn more about the Christ Michael center</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-size: 17px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 17px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 17px;">The Christ Michael Center:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.christmichaelcenter.org/" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 17px;">http://www.christmichaelcenter.org</a><br />
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	<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:07:16 -0400</pubDate>
	<link>https://spiritualfamily.net/blog/view/88405/thought-adjuster-riding-on-your-decision-determining-powers</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Thought Adjuster Riding On Your Decision-Determining Powers]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<div id="post-body-4081984220556289150" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-size: 15.84px;"><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Let Your Thought Adjuster Ride on Your Decision-Determining Powers</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">Here&#39;s a secret on how you can overcome any temptation and how you can achieve amazing success. It is a technique that you can use to have God latch onto your will (in line with his will) and then act through you. If you can understand this and put it to practice, you will work wonders in your behavior, character, life&#39;s goals, etc. Reflective thinking and effective, fervent prayer are two ways you can practically implement it. You have to read this over and over again and meditate on it to make sure you really grasp it, beloved: &nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;">&quot;...Education, training, and experience are factors in most of the vital decisions of all evolutionary moral creatures. But it is entirely possible for the indwelling spirit to make direct contact with the decision-determining powers of the human personality so as to empower the fully consecrated will of the creature to perform amazing acts of loyal devotion to the will and the way of the Father in Paradise...&quot; - Urantia Book 67:3.7&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>NB:</b>&nbsp;Please, you may have to read that again and again and meditate on it deeply; so you can really get it. The indwelling spirit mentioned there is the still small voice within. &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;">+ + +&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Let me attempt to explain some more, to the best of my understanding:&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Let&#39;s say you have a problem with sexual lust or sexual immorality. Now, how can you evolve to a high place where you totally and completely overcome it? This is a place where you far transcend it. You live above it. And you do so easily. Please, how? Your level of education, training and experience on matters of sex play a big role in your ability to overcome sexual temptations or ungodly sexual desires. However, there&#39;s so much more. You can do far more with God&#39;s indwelling spirit or in partnership with divinity in addition to your education, training and experience.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;">There&#39;s a spirit in you - this spirit is the still small voice within; the Father&#39;s own divine presence in you. This is your Thought Adjuster. This spirit is all powerful but cannot arbitrarily act through you. It depends on your will and personality in order to fully act or function through you. You must grant permission. God will not force himself through you.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;">To grant permission, you must understand how to tap into your God-given power of decision-choice. This is the decision-determining powers of your personality. It&#39;s in you. You have it. You just have to tap into it. You need boldness to do this. You need strong will or a wholehearted consecrated will. You need to fully consecrate yourself with all your heart to tap into your &quot;decision-determining powers&quot; and to use it to align yourself to the will of God. In this case, align yourself with the total determination to stop looking at others with sexual lust.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Yes, your flesh may be weak. But no worries. Just totally commit yourself to the desire not to look with lust at others: man, woman, animal or whatever. And then you make your intentions known to God&#39;s spirit within you. You open your heart and mind and declare your intentions, holding firmly onto the power of your will; the power of your ability to make decisions. Don&#39;t put your focus on your flesh. Hold onto faith; focus on your will power; focus on your desire to do the right thing; and then call on your spirit or the Father&#39;s spirit within you to assist you.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;">The spirit will then, as it were, jump on your back, latch firmly and completely unto your decision-determining powers, bringing in the will and power of God the Father to you; joining God&#39;s will to your will; thereby making both wills to be one; and then ride on your personality - express or manifest the Father&#39;s will through your personality. This is when you will now witness the reality of the word of God that says, &quot;It is not by your might; not by your power but by my spirit.&quot; The Father&#39;s &nbsp;indwelling spirit will latch onto your personality; jump on your back, as it were, and ride you to amazing victory. Hallelujah! &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;">So, each time you are confronted with a sexual temptation, the powerful manifestation of your will, married to the Father&#39;s will is going to be activated automatically. And the process of your spirit riding on your personality to victory will repeat itself. This is going to be happening over and over and over again and again. Your flesh that is weak will be made strong.&nbsp;<b>You will be empowered!</b>&nbsp;That&#39;s not going to be an issue for you anymore because the spirit has taken over. Glory to God!&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;">This is the same principle you can apply to any and all other challenges: be it negative challenges like challenges with impatience, unforgiveness, hatred, bitterness, drug and alcohol abuse, anger, etc, etc. You can also apply this same technique to positive challenges like challenges to be more effective with time management; challenges to build upon or improve on a good character trait you already have; challenges to excel at your place of work; challenges to do more in gospel ministry, etc, etc.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;">This principle, the principle of allowing your &nbsp;Thought Adjuster to ride on your decision-making powers, to empower your WILL, to fuse your will with the Father&#39;s will, is what I implemented to successfully and totally overcome any and all forms of sexual immorality. I lost the ability to look at women lustfully...&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;">What I am saying here is a matter of fact. I know whereof I speak. I see it everyday operating in my life.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;">In addition, my spirit, my TA has borne witness to my soul that, yes, indeed, this is true. I had a vision. In the vision, God confirmed for me that true indeed, I don&#39;t look with lust at women anymore. And the year I achieved this was even mentioned: that I achieved it at the age of 35, in my 35th year of mortal existence on Earth. Hallelujah!&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Prior to my 35th year, I actually didn&#39;t have a big problem with sexual immorality. However, sometimes, I would struggle... With education (sex education), training and experience AND in partnership with my TA, my indwelling spirit, I transcended all that. I&#39;m 46 now. So, for the past 11 years, I have not engaged in or looked with ungodly lust at a woman. With God all things are possible!&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;">This is not a matter of trying to convince people to believe my testimony. It is a matter of fact in my personal experience. And those who are willing to exercise faith and commit to the process, will believe and thrive! You can and should apply this same principle to everything. This is how you attain 100% &quot;at-oneness&quot;, slowly but surely with your Inner Voice, the still small voice within, your TA - &nbsp;Thought Adjuster! Hallelujah! Glory to the First Father, the Father of fathers!</p><p style="text-align: center;">Sincerely,&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center;">Brother Karo Kanye Akamune&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</div><div><p style="margin-bottom: 3px; font-style: normal; font-size: 28px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 28px;">Learn more about the Christ Michael center</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-size: 17px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 17px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 17px;">The Christ Michael Center:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.christmichaelcenter.org/" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 17px;">http://www.christmichaelcenter.org</a><br />
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	<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:04:21 -0400</pubDate>
	<link>https://spiritualfamily.net/blog/view/88340/body-soul-and-spirit</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Body, Soul and Spirit]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(6, 6, 6); font-size: 15px;">Your body is the vehicle that your soul and spirit need in order to live, function and experience life in this earthly, terrestrial realm. Your body is not your real you. It is a vehicle, a house, a temple, a tool for your soul and spirit to express and exert themselves in a third dimensional realm like planet Earth.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span>Your soul is your real you. Your soul exists in a realm between your body and your spirit. It impinges on or interacts with your body and your spirit more directly. It is your soul that is the YOU that continues to exist after your life on Earth is done. It is your soul that receives the gift of salvation; that gets born again or born from above. Your body does not get born again. Your spirit does not need salvation.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span>Your spirit is pure and perfect. Your spirit has the perfection of &quot;the Source&quot; - God the Father. Your spirit came from the Father to live in you; to spiritualize your thinking; to help you to become perfect as the Father is perfect, slowly but surely. Your spirit is the image of God in you because it is an exact replica of God, miniaturized in a way you can contain. This is why this spirit is called the spark of God, the candle light of God, the still small voice, the divine fractal, the divine fragment of God in you.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); font-size: 15px; text-align: center;"><span>Your spirit lives in your mind, in the superconscious level of your mind or the holy of holies of your mind. This is the highest dimension of your mind where sin does not exist. It is pure gold. It is far above your conscious mind, subconscious mind, etc. This is how God in his perfection, power, love and glory can live in you even when you give yourself over to ungodliness or unrighteous deeds. Even when you succumb to temptations, God is still in you because there&#39;s a place in you where evil, sin and iniquity cannot approach. You are &quot;fearfully and wonderfully made&quot; indeed!&nbsp;<br />
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One Love!<br />
- Pastor Karo Kanye Akamune</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-bottom: 3px; font-style: normal; font-size: 28px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 28px;">Learn more about the Christ Michael center</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-size: 17px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 17px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 17px;">The Christ Michael Center:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.christmichaelcenter.org/">http://www.christmichaelcenter.org</a><br />
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	<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 06:12:49 -0400</pubDate>
	<link>https://spiritualfamily.net/blog/view/88336/at-salvation-is-your-spirit-recreated-or-liberated</link>
	<title><![CDATA[At Salvation, Is Your Spirit Recreated or Liberated?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span>Jesus said, &quot;I am on earth solely to comfort the minds, liberate the spirits, and save the souls of men.&quot; (Urantia Book 140:6.6)</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span>Of the spirit, your indwelling spirit, it is written, &quot;At some time, during human sleep, has been temporarily detached from the mind of mortal incarceration to perform some exploit of liaison, contact, reregistration, or other extrahuman service associated with the spiritual administration of the world of assignment.&quot; (Urantia Book 109:2.6)</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span>&quot;Truly of the human race has it been said, &ldquo;You are of God&rdquo; because &ldquo;he who dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.&rdquo; Even in wrongdoing you torment the indwelling gift of God, for the Thought Adjuster must needs go through the consequences of evil thinking with the human mind of its incarceration.&quot; - Urantia Book 3:1.5&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span>At salvation, who gets born again: your soul or your spirit? Jesus said, &quot;I am on earth solely to comfort the minds, liberate the spirits, and save the souls of men.&quot; Clearly, the Master made a distinction between the mind, the spirit and the soul.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span>Ezekiel puts it rightly in saying: the soul that sins, shall die. (Ezekiel 18:20) The prophet did not say the human spirit that sins shall die. Nowhere will you find God saying that your spirit, the still small voice within (1 Kings 19:12), can die or shall die. It&#39;s not possible because your spirit (Job 32:8) is perfect and came directly from the heavenly Father. And this same spirit returns to The Father at the death of your physical body. (Ecclesiastes 12:7)&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span>This spirit is God the Father within you and lives in the golden holy of holies deep within you or in the superconscious level of your mind. Sin does not exist there. It is perfectly clean in there. Pure. Golden. Pure, pristine gold. This is the Father&#39;s presence within. The First Source and Divine Center within.</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span>However, this spirit within - your spirit, depends on your will before it can act freely to bring all kinds of blessings to your total mind and your soul. The spirit will not force anything on you. Your cooperation is needed. You have to align your heart, your will and your way to that of God and to do so wholeheartedly. Then, the spirit will emerge from the innermost temple or innermost court within, to manifest greatly in your life: in your mind, your heart, your soul - to manifest through you mightily to the glory of God the Father.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span>The spirit sits at the citadel of your being - the citadel of the spirit, the throne within waiting patiently for you to grant permission. So, when you - your soul gets born again or born from above, the indwelling spirit fragment of God is liberated! In accepting the Father&#39;s gift of salvation, you have aligned your will with that of God. When you make a decision, to, as it were, surrender all to God, his spirit will latch onto your personality and your will to do more work in you, for you and with you. This is why you sense or perceive a great liberation of your spirit at the new birth (salvation). Your spirit is liberated NOT recreated. Liberate is the right word not recreate. Your spirit receives more freedom to soar and do so much more for you and through you. Your spirit, the Inner Voice, is, in that sense, set free.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span>It is not that the spirit was in chains, in bondage, in darkness. No! There&#39;s no darkness in the holy of holies within. There&#39;s no darkness in the superconscious level of your mind. Only light! However, the inner spirit can be said to be restricted or incarcerated within you because of the limitations placed upon it for the very fact that it has come to live inside a circumscribed mortal body and by design, is dependent on your will or cooperation in oder to fully express itself through you.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span>I have chosen to use the word, &quot;it&quot; for the indwelling spirit because by design, this spirit from the Father is &quot;prepersonal&quot;. It has come into you with no personality of its own and is dependent on your personality to live through you. The still small voice is dependent on both your personality and your will in order to bless you mightily... ...Dependent or waits for you to use your will to align with its will - the will of God. These are some reasons why your spirit, your Thought Adjuster is said to be in the mind of mortal incarceration. The spirit is incarcerated in your mind. And will experience more and more liberation to do more work for you and through you, the more you align your will with the Father&#39;s will.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span>Please remember, your spirit does not get born again. It is your soul that gets born again or recreated (if you like that word). Your spirit cannot be recreated. That&#39;s God in you and God cannot be recreated. However, your spirit can be liberated! The spirit can be liberated in the context of the explanation above.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span>Glory! Hallelujah!&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span>One Love!</span><span>&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span>- Pastor Karo Kanye Akamune.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-bottom: 3px; font-style: normal; font-size: 28px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 28px;">Learn more about the Christ Michael center</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-size: 17px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 17px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 17px;">The Christ Michael Center:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.christmichaelcenter.org/">http://www.christmichaelcenter.org</a><br />
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	<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:44:29 -0400</pubDate>
	<link>https://spiritualfamily.net/blog/view/88310/from-earth-to-paradise</link>
	<title><![CDATA[From Earth To Paradise]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We are placed here on earth and we start out as souls to learn, grow, develop, etc through having all kinds of experiences in an imperfect world. You are an imperfect soul; you have a perfect spirit; and you live in an imperfect, mortal body. Your imperfect soul is destined to grow and evolve into becoming eternally one with your indwelling perfect spirit (your Thought Adjuster, Inner Voice) and then to eventually become a true spirit - a perfected spirit, becoming, &quot;Perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.&quot;&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The still small voice within you is your spirit and is God in you. This is your&nbsp;percent (100%) perfect Thought Adjuster, that lives in your mind, in the Holy of Holies of your mind - your superconscious mind, working in you to get you, your soul, to attain divine perfection. This indwelling spirit is here to lead you Godward. This Thought Adjuster, divine spark of God or candle light of God came from Paradise and will eventually take you to Paradise, on its way back to Paradise, if you cooperate. In the process of leading you to Paradise, you, your soul will experience tremendous transformations till you become a perfected spirit.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There are so many lessons and blessings and opportunities for amazing growth and expansion in living in a world that is not yet perfect. These lessons and blessings are received and enjoyed by mortal and celestial beings alike.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: large;">These lessons and blessings and growth are very, very valuable in order for us, in partnership with divinity, to successfully carry out great tasks in eternity, in our eternal future. If we allow the Spirit of Truth to teach us and expand to us, the eternal divine plan and purpose of God, then everything will begin to make so much sense, as to why we are here on earth! Hallelujah!&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One Love. Peace and Blessings!<br />
- Pastor Karo Kanye Akamune&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 3px; font-style: normal; font-size: 28px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10px;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Learn more about the Christ Michael center</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-size: 17px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 17px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10px;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The Christ Michael Center:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.christmichaelcenter.org/">http://www.christmichaelcenter.org</a><br />
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	<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:49:06 -0400</pubDate>
	<link>https://spiritualfamily.net/blog/view/88304/finaliters</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Finaliters!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Finaliters&nbsp;</b>are, for the most part, unseen celestial beings who were once mortal terrestrial beings - who were once &quot;human beings&quot;... &nbsp;...People who lived on imperfect terrestrial worlds like Urantia (planet Earth) and graduated to the heavenly realms to begin their ascent to Paradise. They successfully became eternally one with their indwelling Thought Adjusters - eternal fusion, eternal oneness with the Father&#39;s spirit within, the still small voice within, the divine spark within.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And then ultimately reached Paradise - attained Paradise; became &quot;perfect as the Father in heaven is perfect&quot;; stood, as it were, face-to-face before God the Universal Father; received a very unique divine embrace; and were mustered into, &quot;The Corp of the Finality&quot;. Finaliters are those who, in the Bible are called, &quot;spirits of just men made perfect&quot;. (Hebrews 12:23)&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hebrews 12:23, &quot;To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,&quot;&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As we speak, there are finaliters present on Earth (Urantia). They are always here. And you can &nbsp;tell your Thought Adjuster that you desire to fellowship with them; to have direct spiritual encounters with them; to be ministered to, directly, one-on-one, by them, etc. Your request may be granted! Hallelujah! &nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Urantia Book 31:0.11, &quot;One or more companies of the mortal finaliters are constantly in service on Urantia. There is no domain of universe service to which they are not assigned; they function universally and with alternating and equal periods of assigned duty and free service.&quot; Please, did you catch that? It has been revealed,&nbsp;<b>&quot;One or more companies of the mortal finaliters are constantly in service on Urantia.&quot;&nbsp;</b>So much amazing experiences await you, a sincere and honest truth seeker! Oh! Glory! Hallelujah!&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Please, note that finaliters are grouped in companies. A company of finaliters is made up of 1,000 individuals or beings. Of this 1,000, 990 are &quot;glorified mortals&quot;. This means 990 members of each company of finaliters were once mortals or free will intelligent mortals.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">These glorified mortals make up 990 of the 1,000 members of a finaliter company. The remaining slot of 10 are allocated to:&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Havona Natives.</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2. Gravity Messengers.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3. Adopted Seraphim.</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">4. Glorified Material Sons.</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">5. Glorified Midway Creatures.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">6. The Evangels of Light.</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And this is the reason why I said finaliters are, for the most part, folks who were once mortals. In each company of finaliters, 990 were once mortals. To learn more about finaliters, please read: The Urantia Book, Paper 31, &quot;The Corps of the Finality&quot;https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-31-corps-finality.</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: medium; font-style: normal;">Peace</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: medium; font-style: normal;">&nbsp;and Blessings!</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>-Karo Kanye Akamune</b>&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 3px; font-style: normal; font-size: 28px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 28px;">Learn more about the Christ Michael center</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-size: 17px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15.84px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-size: 17px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 17px;">The Christ Michael Center:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.christmichaelcenter.org/">http://www.christmichaelcenter.org</a><br />
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