Reverend David Alexander continued our third theme, “The Grateful Heart,” in our Building the beLOVEd Community series with his message on Sunday, November 16th.
Reverend David Alexander continued our third theme, “The Grateful Heart,” in our Building the beLOVEd Community series with his message on Sunday, November 9th.
Bishop Carlton Pearson kicked off the third theme in Bodhi’s Building The beLOVEd Community series, called “The Grateful Heart,” with his message at Bodhi Spiritual Center on Sunday, November 2nd.
Like success, prosperity is something many people aspire to create in their lives—and also like success, it’s a concept with many definitions. Here, in the beginning of her Sunday message “The Secret of Permanent Prosperity,” Edwene Gaines shares what it means to her with four main tenets.
Edwene Gaines speaking at Bodhi Spiritual Center in Chicago, IL
Click the button to begin listening to the audio of the message at 5:07, when Edwene shares her prosperity definition. Read the bulleted points based on the transcript below.
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Edwene Gaines continued the second theme in Bodhi’s Building The beLOVEd Community series, called “The Universal Truth About Prosperity,” with her message at Bodhi Spiritual Center on Sunday, October 26th.
What is courage? We often see movies and literature portray courageous people as embodying fearlessness; they jump into burning buildings, run toward fights they can’t possibly win, and generally save the day with their heroics. And while it’s pretty cool to watch your favorite action hero be chased by an explosion down a crumbling hallway, these actions don’t really reflect authentic courage.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the innate ability to act despite fear. It is both a deep awareness of inner fear and a stalwart commitment to understand and move beyond that fear. Courage is being able to look at our inner demons and see the core wounds behind those fears. Courage is the ability to set ourselves free despite every barrier our fears build to block our way. We all have this courage within us, because God is courage, and we are always unified with God.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the innate ability to act despite fear.
President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Martin Luther King, Jr. at the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Bodhi cannot help Chicago build Dr. King’s ideal of the Beloved Community if we cannot help ourselves uncover, understand and confront our own fears around building a better community. Read More
Maureen Muldoon continues the second theme in Bodhi’s Building The beLOVEd Community series, called “The Universal Truth About Prosperity,” with her message at Bodhi Spiritual Center on Sunday, October 19th.
Along the California northern coast, there is a large community of trees that stretch hundreds of feet into the air—some over 350 feet—called California or coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens). Some are over 2000 years old, making them literally older than Jesus. They have been around, seen some stuff, survived.
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Though their height and longevity are truly amazing, the most interesting fact about these redwood trees is their roots—they are very shallow, sometimes only 5 or 6 feet down into the earth. It would seem that these trees would not be able to remain standing with such shallow roots. Read More
Maureen Muldoon continues the second theme in Bodhi’s Building The beLOVEd Community series, called “The Universal Truth About Prosperity,” with her message at Bodhi Spiritual Center on Sunday, October 12th.