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But if you can't make it to church today, we've got your back! We feature the online services of North Point Community Church every Sunday, so that you can enjoy the experience from your home, office or wherever else you might be today.
Who doesn't want to get rich? Isn't that the American dream -- to have enough money and stuff to be comfortable? That might be true, but getting rich doesn't mean you will be rich. What does it mean to be rich? It means to be generous: to do more and to give more. While that may sound backwards at first, Andy Stanley will explain how you can be rich this holiday season through simple action steps that allow you to be generous with what you have, even if it's only a few minutes and a few bucks.
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If you enjoy the services at North Point Community Church, you should know that there are North Point Strategic Partner churches all across North America. Click here to see if there is one in your area. You can also find more information about how to be involved in the Be Rich: Do More. Give More. Campaign by visiting howtoberich.org.
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For the second time in history, man must discover "fire" but this time within
his soul...
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin predicted, “Un jour après avoir maitrisé les vents, les vagues, les marées et la pesanteur, nous devrions exploiter les énergies de l’amour; et pour la seconde fois dans l’histoire du monde, l’homme découvrira le feu.”
translates:
“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God
the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
If you don't know DeChardin, I think you can catch up on his contribution by reading of his statements (quotes). There are many online sources.
Here is one of the most important:
"Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are quite naturally impatient in everything
to reach the end without delay.
We should like to skip the intermediate stages.
We are impatient of being on the way to something
unknown, something new.
And yet it is the law of all progress
that it is made by passing through
some stages of instability—and that it may
take a very long time.
And so I think it is with you;
your ideas mature gradually—let them grow,
let them shape themselves, without undue haste.
Don’t try to force them on,
as though you could be today what time
(that is to say, grace and circumstances
acting on your own good will)
will make of you tomorrow.
Only God could say what this new spirit
gradually forming within you will be.
Give Our Lord the benefit of believing
that his hand is leading you,
and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself
in suspense and incomplete.”
Discover nurture and nature as energies of love and then rise to the
challenges of our future. In this regeneration, a 10th gate of consciousness
opens in the heart, brings serenity, maximizes subconscious brain potential and
opens channels of eventually a total communication with the Infinite. Driven by
pressures, this may occur with great confused energy and perhaps this process
may even bring on psychosis. So, as Tielhard suggests, take your time; just be
sure to do your time.
Becoming reborn in the Spirit, the body and the soul are penetrated by the
heat of divine love and by the light of divine intelligence. This process
emanates from a divine "fire" within. You shall know the difference as
this process occurs.