God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit Articles

Here is a quick summary of the points I covered in yesterday's class. What does He do? • He plans a basic strategy (forgiveness) to get us home, along with all the events of our lives, along with our preferred response to those events • He teaches. His primary job is...

In Thursday's class, I tried to give an overview of what the Holy Spirit is. In a second class, I'll summarize what He does. So what is the Holy Spirit? He is first and foremost a creation of God, and everything God creates has two sides to it. First, • It is an...

In the class on Thursday, I covered two common views that are not what the Course teaches, and then I covered the Course’s view: 1. We are a separate creation (traditional religious view). We were created in God’s image, but after that, our identity is in our own...

Here is the gist of what I said yesterday: God is a Creator God, but what He creates is not a world of form, a world in which everything passes away, a world filled with minds trapped in bodies, pitted against each other, saddled with suffering and loneliness, and...

Diagram of God's Will Our class yesterday was on God's Will. Since the class, I have been trying to think how to convey my main message more simply and effectively. What I came up with was the above diagram (you'll have to click on God's Will). Let me walk you through...

MATERIAL FROM EARLY DICTATION 1. You need not bow down to angels or to any created thing. You were created above the angels, since they were created to protect you. Before your loveliness the stars stand transfixed and bow to the pow er of your will....You were...

In yesterday’s class, I laid out a picture of the relationship that Jesus offers us, why we shy away from it, and why our fears represent a distorted picture. That picture struck me as so potentially useful, at the very least for myself, that I want to summarize it...

The pull of God is a truly mesmerizing topic in the Course. It upends everything we think about our desire for God. We typically see ourselves as not having enough desire for God. Wanting God seems analogous to wanting our vegetables. We know we should, but we can’t...

I wrote the following exercise based on the teachings of Jesus in the Gospels. It takes off from two sayings in particular, both of which show God's life-giving blessings being showered indiscriminately on everyone, regardless of their apparent merit. One says that we...

Last year, I wrote about a woman's near-death experience ("We can do better"), and in the past few days it keeps coming to  mind, as a window onto a certain way of thinking about God. So I thought I better write about it. I think a (perhaps the) common conception of...

It has been growing on me for some time that we Course students are engaged in a massive, collective avoidance of God. By “we” I mean the Course community in general and probably most students of the Circle’s approach as well. I have been wanting to write an editorial...