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June 17, 2026
Living & Loving in the Tension of Faith
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Martin Luther stood in peril of his earthly life and possibly his eternal soul. The energetic Wittenberg firebrand challenged more than he realized when he issued debating points to the popular indulgence seller Johann Tetzel. Tetzel’s cavalier theatrics crafted to better sell indulgences and his gross exaggerations of their benefits for the buyer enraged Luther. Luther himself struggled with obsessive feelings of inadequacy and sinful imperfection that were gradually being eased by a renewed appreciation for the grace of God. Contrary to images of Luther as a revolutionary iconoclast tearing at the foundations of the church from the beginning, the Luther who drafted The Ninety-Five Theses in 1517 saw himself as a loyal son of a corrupted church seeking to bring it back into line with scriptural principles. He failed to grasp the degree to which Pope Leo X endorsed the actions of men like Albert of Mainz and Tetzel....
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Spirit can be both known and unknown. Spirits are supernatural beings with specific roles and powers. The mystical and surreal exist in the spiritual realm. Integrate the spiritual layer of being with all other layers; physical, emotional, energetic, and intellectual. In doing so, you will begin to learn the answer of what is spirit. A spirit is the etheric layer of a being. All other layers are encapsulated by this layer. In the spiritual realm, there is only what is immaterial or incorporeal. The subtle body has been described as spirit. It is a person’s shadow or dreams.
Angels remind us that we are never alone in our struggles; guardian angels guide us towards light even amidst darkness. Animal spirits teach us valuable lessons about living in harmony with nature’s rhythms while reflecting upon the profound interconnectedness among all living beings. The trees send us oxygen, we return carbon dioxide. Nature spirits are ancestral roots to religion. Jesus Christ has been described as a magician. His teachings on the holy spirit have reached across time to believers whose ancestors did not know of his grace.
Examine the collection of historical research on spirituality. Does the empirical evidence support the claim that there is no divine? If questioning how we arrived here in space and time, the evidence for divine intervention is massive. There are several ways in which science has proven that the divine exists, and not the opposite....
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