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Have you ever wondered how a specific Bible verse might be interpreted metaphysically (i.e., how it might be interpreted to apply to your life)? Our unique new feature, Interpret This, offers precisely that.
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Please review the previous interpretations below to see if the one you are requesting is already complete. Bible references are from the New Revised Standard Version unless otherwise indicated.
Click Here to request a Bible verse interpretation.
Please review the previous interpretations below to see if the one you are requesting is already complete. Bible references are from the New Revised Standard Version unless otherwise indicated.
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PASSAGE: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end" (Revelation 22:13).
COMMENT: The entire Bible begins with the words "In the beginning, ...
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Aug
23
Dear Amy,
Well, let’s see. I believe there are universal spiritual principles that are common to all spiritual paths, and to all spiritual teachers. That’s not to say that all paths are ...
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Aug
19
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"Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out ...
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Aug
17
LUKE 9:52-56: "On their way they entered a village of the Samaritans to make ready for him; but they did not receive him, because his face was set toward Jerusalem. When his disciples James and John ...
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Aug
17
I don't think Unity ever claims to be the definitive authority on what any part of the Bible means. I certainly don't make that claim. So I'm not comfortable with deciding that the author of 1 Peter is ...
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Aug
16
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PASSAGE: "Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for you are with me; your rod and your staff—they comfort me" (Psalm 23:4).
QUESTION: I love this prayer ...
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Aug
12
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PASSAGE: "The woman answered him, 'I have no husband.' Jesus said to her, 'You are right in saying 'I have no husband'; for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. ...
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Aug
12
QUESTION: What's your take on this principle of Jesus bearing in his body our "sins"? I'm comfortable writing off some of the nonsense that comes from one person's writings, but when two or more ...
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Aug
11
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PASSAGE: “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I; send me!’ And he said, ‘Go and say to this ...
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Aug
11
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PASSAGE: “And a large crowd followed him and pressed in on him. Now there was a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years. She had endured much under many physicians, and had ...
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Aug
11
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PASSAGE: “If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, ...
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Aug
10
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PASSAGE: “Now concerning virgins, I have no command of the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy. I think that, in view of the impending crisis, it is well ...
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Aug
10
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PASSAGE: “We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28).
COMMENT: This ringing endorsement is a universal ...
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Aug
09
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PASSAGE: “‘But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but they did to him whatever they pleased. So also the Son of Man is about to suffer at their hands.’ ...
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Aug
09
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PASSAGE: “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me” (John 5:30).
COMMENT: In the Gospel ...
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Aug
09
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QUESTION: Is it the translation that makes this verse so difficult? Seems that translators haven’t been able to write an understandable version: “That which hath been is now; and that which ...
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Aug
05
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PASSAGE: "That disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, 'It is the Lord!' When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on some clothes, for he was naked, and jumped into the sea. But the other ...
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Aug
04
QUESTION: This is more about the first chapter of Genesis. I grew up as Assemblies of God, but apparently I question too much. Anyway I grew up believing God created the heavens/earth in six days. What ...
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Aug
04
LUKE 19:11—"As they were listening to this, he went on to tell a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately." ...
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Aug
03
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PASSAGE: "If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you" (John 15:7).
COMMENT: This statement is from Jesus' final discourse to ...
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Aug
02
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PASSAGE: "Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded ...
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Aug
02
COMMENT: I think of all the early myths of the Bible as stories told at night around a campfire, as children ask the kind of questions children will: Where did we come from? Why do we have to work so hard? ...
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Aug
01
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You requested simply "Corinthians 6:14," but there are two letters to the Corinthians in the Bible. I'm going to guess that you meant 2 Corinthians 6:14, which reads as follows:
"Do ...
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Jul
28
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PASSAGE: “For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind” (Isaiah 65:17).
QUESTION: When one dies believing in the Lord Jesus ...
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Jul
28
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QUESTION: Somewhere Saint Paul says that neither angels, nor devils, nor things of this world, nor things of the world to come, can separate us from each other in the love of Jesus Christ. I don’t ...
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Jul
27
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PASSAGE: “He also said, ‘With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all ...
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Jul
26
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PASSAGE: “For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain” (Philippians 1:21).
QUESTION: What does the phrase “living is Christ” mean?
COMMENT: Taken alone, this ...
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Jul
26
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QUESTION: Jesus said that he had come not to abolish the Law or the Prophets, but to fulfill them: “I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least ...
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Jul
22
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PASSAGE: “I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not ...
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Jul
22
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PASSAGE: “Those of steadfast mind you keep in peace—in peace because they trust in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for in the Lord God you have an everlasting rock.”—Isaiah 26:3-4 ...
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Jul
21
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PASSAGE: He was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” He said to them, “When ...
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Jul
21
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PASSAGE: “So let no one boast about human leaders. For all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all belong to you, ...
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Jul
20
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PASSAGE: “So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!”—2 Corinthians 5:17
COMMENT: This is the heart ...
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Jul
20
QUESTION: These words have come to me in a strange way ... along with a key. I sense it is important. From my Catholic past, it meant a priest with the power to loose or bind sins. I now know it means ...
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Jul
19
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PASSAGE: “There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among mortals by which we must be saved.”—Acts 4:12
COMMENT: As is consistently the ...
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Jul
19
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PASSAGE: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.”—Proverbs 9:10
QUESTION: Yes, fear, but doesn’t the Bible also ...
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Jul
19
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PASSAGE: Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. The tempter came and said to him, “If ...
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Jul
15
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PASSAGE: "Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Beth-za’tha, which has five porticoes. In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed. One man was ...
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Jul
14
QUESTION: I keep coming across it and I want to make sure I’m understanding what it represents. Thank you.
COMMENT: We're told in Exodus 25 that the Ark was built for Moses, according to ...
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Jul
14
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QUESTION: I am curious about the metaphysics of: land of Nod, Cain’s wife, and the Son/City of Enoch. Is the meaning of Enoch the son different from the city?
PASSAGE: "Then Cain went ...
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Jul
12
QUESTION: Yes! Desire to know the meaning of these scriptures; If Jesus is the only way to the Father, how then can I get to know Jesus? What do I do?
COMMENT: It is not Jesus who is the only ...
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Jul
12
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PASSAGE: "And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one ...
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Jul
09
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PASSAGE: "Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the rods. He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in ...
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Jul
08
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PASSAGE: "Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, 'Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?' And Jesus said to them, 'The wedding guests cannot mourn so long ...
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Jul
08
QUESTION: In Sunday school yesterday I read to the children the story of Noah. One child stated "That can't be true that Noah was 600 years old and it took 120 years to build the ark." I told ...
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Jul
07
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PASSAGE: "I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the ...
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Jul
06
PSALM 35:
Of David.
1 Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me;
fight against those who fight against me!
2 Take hold of shield and buckler,
and rise up to help me!
3 ...
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Jul
05
QUESTION: The entire story of Job confuses me. What is the real point in Job?
COMMENT: The Book of Job is, in a sense, the first biblical drama—a play in which a number of characters observe ...
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Jul
05
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PASSAGE: “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground unperceived by your Father. 30And even the hairs of your head are all counted. 31So do not be afraid; ...
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Jul
02
QUESTION: The verses where Jesus accuses the Pharisees of being sons of the devil seem to suggest that Jesus holds dualistic beliefs.
COMMENT: I’m not clear on what passage you’re ...
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Jul
01
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PASSAGE: “Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your ...
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Jul
01
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PASSAGE: “Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who ...
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Jul
01
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PASSAGE: “Then Jesus said, ‘Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.’ And they cast lots to divide his clothing” (Luke 23:34).
QUESTION: We had ...
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Jun
30
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PASSAGE: “Some Hebrews crossed the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. He waited for seven days, the time appointed by ...
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Jun
30
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PASSAGE: “Do not be ashamed, then, of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel, relying on the power of God” (2 Timothy 1:8).
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Jun
29
QUESTION: All have sinned. [All are] born of sin. Scripturally, we are not born good and loving. Look at any baby for evidence. How did this change in your belief?
COMMENT: I emphatically do not believe ...
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Jun
29
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Jun
29
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PASSAGE: “Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are on the way to court with him, or your accuser may hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you will be thrown into ...
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Jun
28
PASSAGE: “Choose this day whom you will serve ... but as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:15).
QUESTION: I’m preparing a Sunday message on the topic of choosing ...
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Jun
28
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PASSAGE: “The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea became blood, a third of the living creatures in the ...
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Jun
17
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PASSAGE: “In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, ...
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Jun
17
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PASSAGE: "What do you think? A man had two sons; he went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard today.' He answered 'I will not,' but later he changed his mind and went. The father ...
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Jun
16
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PASSAGE: "Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Again, truly I tell you, if two of you agree on earth about ...
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Jun
14
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PASSAGE: “Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2He came to Jesus night and said to him, ‘Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can ...
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Jun
14
QUESTION: I have heard more than one interpretation and want to know what Unity's position is.
COMMENT: Unity doesn't have a “position,” and even if it did, I would certainly not be qualified ...
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Jun
10
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PASSAGE: “From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter ...
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Jun
09
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PASSAGE: "Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob he struck him on the hip socket; and Jacob's hip was put out of joint ...
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Jun
08
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PASSAGE: “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,
The Lord bless thee, and keep ...
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Jun
07
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PASSAGE: "Jesus said to them, 'Very truly I tell you, before Abraham was, I am'" (John 8:58).
COMMENT: As is frequently the case in the Gospel of John, Jesus confounds those listening ...
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Jun
07
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PASSAGE: (Isaiah 58:1-5)
“Shout out, do not hold back!
Lift up your voice like a trumpet!
Announce to my people their rebellion,
to the house of Jacob their sins.
Yet day after ...
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Jun
03
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A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ...
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Jun
03
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“Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.”—Matthew 12:32 ...
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Jun
03
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For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to ...
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Jun
03
QUESTION: This is not a question of Scripture, but rather phrasing. I am troubled by the repeated use of the phrase “Jesus the Christ.” If Christ is a state of consciousness, and Jesus is a ...
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Jun
02
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Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, ...
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Jun
02
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1I lift up my eyes to the hills—
from where will my help come?
2My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
3He will not let your foot be moved;
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Jun
01
Acts 8:14-17 "Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God..."
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Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them. The two went down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit (for ...
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Jun
01
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“Truly I tell you, if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and if you do not doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say will come to pass, it will ...
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Jun
01
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I appeal to you, therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to ...
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May
31
QUESTION: How does the Bible define adultery?
COMMENT: Exodus 20:14 consists of the single, simple statement, “You shall not commit adultery.” In the ensuing chapters and books of ...
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May
31
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Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make ...
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May
31
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“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.”—Matthew 10:34
QUESTION: I know the Bible does not contradict itself, ...
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May
28
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PASSAGE: "Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to ...
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May
27
PASSAGE: Psalm 123
To you I lift up my eyes,
O you who are enthroned in the heavens!
2As the eyes of servants
look to the hand of their master,
as the eyes of a maid
to the ...
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May
26
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PASSAGE: “At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. He asked them, ‘Do you think that because these Galileans ...
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May
24
PASSAGE: “When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. 2Then he began to speak, and taught them, saying: 3’Blessed are the poor in spirit, ...
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May
20
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PASSAGE: "If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, ...
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May
19
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PASSAGE: "For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made so by others, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom ...
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May
19
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PASSAGE: "After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, 'Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over ...
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May
19
COMMENT: We are still in early Genesis here—still telling the five great myths designed to answer basic human questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we different from other peoples? ...
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May
18
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PASSAGE: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of those who by their wickedness suppress the truth" (Romans 1:18).
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May
17
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COMMENT: Psalm 37 is, in its lengthy entirety, an acrostic. That means that in Hebrew each separate stanza begins with the same letter of the alphabet, in order. It's like a spiritual ABC book, but more ...
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May
17
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PASSAGE: "When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. Then he began to speak, and taught them, saying: ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, ...
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May
12
QUESTION: A brief interpretation of the story of Job.
COMMENT: The Book of Job is, in a sense, the first biblical drama—a play in which a number of characters observe and debate the character ...
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May
12
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PASSAGE: "Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To everyone who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give a white stone, and on the white ...
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May
11
QUESTION: I think these may be the verses on homosexuality that are so controversial. I am a member of a Unity church, but I come from a Pentecostal background and I still have my moments when I feel as ...
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May
11
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PASSAGE: "Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy" (Exodus 20:8).
QUESTION: For my greater understanding of what the Lord God is saying to his children.
COMMENT: Metaphysically, ...
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May
10
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PASSAGE: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came ...
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May
10
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PASSAGE: "Oh, rebellious children, says the Lord, who carry out a plan, but not mine; who make an alliance, but against my will, adding sin to sin; who set out to go down to Egypt without asking for ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
May
10
QUESTION: I've been a member of Unity for 27 years and I cannot recall any meaningful discussion as to Unity philosophy towards the idea of obedience to God and His word.
COMMENT: I must admit ...
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May
07
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PASSAGE: “For this reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands; for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
May
06
05:15 PM
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Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
May
04
01:30 PM
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PASSAGE: “And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:18).
QUESTION: What did Jesus mean ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
May
03
PASSAGES: “If you conquer, you will be clothed like them in white robes, and I will not blot your name out of the book of life; I will confess your name before my Father and before his angels” ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
28
VERSE REQUESTED: The one about homosexuality. It keeps coming up in conversation, and I am not sure that this topic is actually addressed in the Bible. Thanks. PS: I don't know exactly which one it is ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
27
10:00 AM
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PASSAGE: "The apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught. He said to them, 'Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.' For many were coming ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
26
04:45 PM
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QUESTION: These two verses came up when discussing traditional Christian views on the concrete and verbatim nature in which one should accept the Bible. Your thoughts, please!
2 TIMOTHY 3:16: "All ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
26
09:30 AM
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PASSAGE: "Then the Lord said to Cain, 'Where is your brother, Abel?' He said, 'I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?'" (Genesis 4:9).
QUESTION: My reason is I have heard it used and ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
25
QUESTION: The [grace implication] using in my talk at Unity C by the Sea.
COMMENT: I think the parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32) may be the greatest short story every written—and ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
24
12:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "I, therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all lowliness and meekness, with patience, forbearing one another ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
23
PASSAGE: "Jesus answered him, 'Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God'" (John 3:3 RSV).
QUESTION: Discussion about whether there is/is not ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
23
11:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
22
05:30 PM
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PASSAGE: "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword" (Matthew 10:34).
QUESTION: "Think not that I am come to send peace ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
22
04:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly" (John 10:10).
QUESTION: Is the “I” God or Jesus? What ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
22
PASSAGE:
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures;
he leads me beside still waters
he restores my soul.
He leads me in right paths
for his ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
21
01:15 PM
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PASSAGE: "'The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place'" (Isaiah 9:10).
QUESTION: I was falling ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
21
09:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "But a Samaritan while traveling came near him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity" (Luke 10:33).
COMMENT: This is one sentence from the familiar and beloved parable ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
20
QUESTION: I want to know more about Love, and I feel that being that John represents love, in the twelve powers; I want to know more about it and the Unity interpretation.
COMMENT: "Love" ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
20
QUESTION: I am feeling so alone. My boyfriend is having a drinking problem and is pushing me away. I am having surgery at the end of the month and he tells me that he cannot be there for me. I was there ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
20
QUESTION: What if it is not God's will to bring my ex-husband back to me and our five girls? It has been two years since he left. We went to court in Dec 09 but have received no judge ruling as of date. ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
20
QUESTION: Is it Christian to sue someone with a lawyer????? I believe that I wouldn't sue anyone for any reason because I believe in the power of love and Jesus will take care of any wrong doings by others. ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
20
08:30 AM
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PASSAGE: "Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my house, and thus put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts; see if I will not open the windows of heaven for you ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
19
05:30 PM
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QUESTION: Where Jesus is riding the donkey into Jerusalem to be crucified.
PASSAGE: “When they had come near Jerusalem and had reached Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
19
02:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "Beloved, we are God's children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when it is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is" (1 John ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
19
08:30 AM
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PASSAGE: "But Moses said to God, 'If I come to the Israelites and say to them 'The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' what shall I say to them?' God said ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
16
06:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "Then the Lord appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him, 'I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice. When I shut up the heavens so that ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
16
09:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "So Jesus said to them 'Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
15
11:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, while the sun's light failed; and the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Then Jesus, crying ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
14
10:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "One wise person went up against a city of warriors and brought down the stronghold in which they trusted" (Proverbs 21:22).
QUESTION: I think is more about a war strategy, ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
13
11:00 AM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE: "Then Peter came and said to him, 'Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?' Jesus said to him, 'Not seven times, but, I ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
13
08:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you. Discipline yourselves, keep ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
12
03:30 PM
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PASSAGE: Psalm 19:7-14
The law of the Lord is perfect,
reviving the soul;
the decrees of the Lord are sure,
making wise the simple;
the precepts of the Lord are right,
...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
12
11:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required; and from the one to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be demanded" (Luke 12:48).
QUESTION: I use ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
12
John 21:14 "This was now the third time that Jesus appeared to his disciples after he was raised..."
10:00 AM
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PASSAGE: "This was now the third time that Jesus appeared to the disciples after he was raised from the dead" (John 21:14).
QUESTION: Unity position on the Resurrection of Jesus.
...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
10
01:15 PM
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PASSAGE: "In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he was hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the wayside he went to it, and found nothing on it but leaves only. And he said to it, 'May no fruit ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
09
12:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "Jesus said to him, 'He who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but he is clean all over; and you are clean, but not every one of you" (John 13:10 RSV).
COMMENT: ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
09
10:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "For to him who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away" (Matthew 13:12 RSV).
QUESTION: Why would God ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
08
02:00 PM
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PASSAGE: “O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!" (Romans 11:33)
COMMENT: Paul is writing to the ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
08
12:15 PM
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PASSAGE: "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly" (John 10:10).
QUESTION: this is always present how to prevent ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
08
11:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "And Jesus said, 'Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.' And they cast lots to divide his garments" (Luke 23:34 RSV).
COMMENT: Jesus is speaking from the cross; ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
08
09:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, he answered them, 'The kingdom of god is not coming with signs to be observed; nor will they say 'Lo, here it is!' or 'There!' ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
08
07:30 AM
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PASSAGE: "Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we are not contending against flesh and blood but against the principalities, against the ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
07
05:15 PM
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PASSAGE: “Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
07
02:45 PM
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PASSAGE:
"For you shall go out in joy,
and be led back in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
shall burst into song,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
07
01:30 PM
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PASSAGE: “Then Jesus said to the disciples, ‘There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was squandering his property. So he summoned him and said ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
07
QUESTION: Given to me as a prophecy. Seek greater understanding of its meaning.
COMMENT: Chapter 54 of the Book of Isaiah was written during the final years of Babylonian exile; it is part of ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
07
08:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood" ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
06
01:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
06
01:15 PM
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PASSAGE: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
06
QUESTION: We are getting ready to participate in our Prayer Chaplains retreat soon and our theme is I AM, WE ARE, ADVENTURES IN ONENESS. I was curious as to the meaning of "I AM' in Unity’s ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
06
PSALM 96: O sing to the Lord a new song;
sing to the Lord, all the earth.
2Sing to the Lord, bless his name;
tell of his salvation from day to day.
3Declare his glory among the nations, ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
06
QUESTION: How does Unity metaphysically interpret the word sorcery? Channeling is present in today’s vocabulary. Are they the same? There is admonition against "sorcery" in the Bible. ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
05
PASSAGE: Psalm 27
The Lord is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid?
2When evildoers assail me
to ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
05
04:00 PM
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PASSAGE: “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watch-tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
05
11:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "When Jehu came back to his master's officers, they said to him, 'Is everything all right? Why did that madman come to you?' He answered them, 'You know the sort and how they babble.' They ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
05
Matthew 27:46 "And about three o'clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, 'Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani...
11:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "And about three o'clock, Jesus cried with a loud voice, 'Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?' that is, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?'" (Matthew 27:46).
QUESTION: Did he ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
05
QUESTION: Louise Hay mentioned Matthew 6 on one of her CDs as a verse that can assist one in having faith and releasing doubt and worry. But in the quote it also mentioned the word "deserve," ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
01
QUESTION: This may not be the proper forum; I don't know who else to ask. My Unity minister denies the existence of evil and for this reason she refuses to go see Avatar, because there is "war" ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
01
QUESTION: I'm feeling very frustrated with certain things in my life and I don't understand why these things happen that causes one/me to feel so very bad. At one point; I experienced so much happiness ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Apr
01
QUESTION: I’m seeking the presence of God. I’m hoping that God’s presence can heal me from my fear of rejection. How do I find the presence of God?
COMMENT: There is no one Bible passage ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
31
03:15 PM
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PASSAGE: "For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them" (Matthew 18:20).
QUESTION: Spirit lives within us. What is the significance of "where two or three ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
31
PASSAGE: "The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If, then, the ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
31
09:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "If you see your brother or sister committing what is not a mortal sin, you will ask, and God will give life to such a one—to those whose sin is not mortal. There is sin that is mortal; ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
30
05:00 PM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE: "Do not press me to leave you, or to turn back from following you! Where you go, I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God" (Ruth ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
30
01:30 PM
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PASSAGE: "For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
30
10:30 AM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE: "Then God said, 'Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
29
QUESTION: I am a member of the Unity Church, Center for Positive Living in Centralia, Washington. At our last Sunday service there was a discussion regarding the use of the word evil in the Lord's Prayer. ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
29
02:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "You have heard that it was said 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also; ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
29
11:00 AM
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PASSAGE: “See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
29
08:30 AM
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PASSAGE: “Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, ‘I have produced a man with the help of the Lord.’ 2Next she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
25
03:00 PM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE: "For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born" (Mark 14:21). ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
25
10:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "Not everyone who says to me 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
24
04:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. You will only look with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. Because you have ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
24
02:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink" (John 6:54-55).
...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
24
COMMENT: Chapter 21 of the Gospel of John concerns a final appearance of Jesus to his disciples. As in other instances, they do not recognize him by physical appearance; they rather first recognize his ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
24
Acts 9:1-20 "Meanwhile Saul,still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord..."
10:45 AM
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PASSAGE: “Meanwhile Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
24
08:30 AM
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PASSAGE: Take delight in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4).
QUESTION: Yes, I have heard several interpretations about this scripture's meaning. Does ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
23
02:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn to attack you” (Matthew 7:6 RSV).
COMMENT: I think to ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
23
12:15 PM
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PASSAGE: "I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd" (John 10:16).
COMMENT: ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
23
QUESTION: Dear friends in faith ...
1) I need to know where is the background, the foundation in the Bible about the possibility of reincarnation.
2) In point of view of Unity Church ... what is to understand ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
23
09:00 AM
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PASSAGE: "When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you must not learn to imitate the abhorrent practices of those nations. No one shall be found among you who makes a son ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
23
QUESTION: What is this all about anyway??? Is it about creating our own reality? Is it about not taking seriously the commitments we make? (Esau didn't think his commitment to Jacob was serious???)
...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
22
04:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "So I say to you, Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you" (Luke 11:9).
QUESTION: I am asking of this verse ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
22
QUESTION: There are different versions the Rosicrucian, the Essenic etc. saying that Jesus did not die or said in another way that the silver cord was not broken when he was laid in the tomb. What is the ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
22
11:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
22
09:45 AM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE: "Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
22
QUESTION: I have been asked to provide a statement concerning the Seven Last Words of Christ for a Good Friday nondenominational gathering. Being associated with Unity, Religious Science and other ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
18
04:00 PM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE: "For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope. Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
17
Mark 13:19-23 "For in those days there will be suffering, such as has not been from the beginning...
03:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "For in those days there will be suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, no, and never will be. And if the Lord had not cut short those ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
17
COMMENT: The 21st chapter of the Revelation to John is, I think, one of the most sublime in the entire Bible. The fearsome and exhausting wars and conflicts are behind us. The terrifying illusions ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
16
12:30 PM
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PASSAGE: "The Lord God said to the serpent, 'Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
15
09:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
11
02:15 PM
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QUESTION: Yes, I have been with out a job for two years and cannot pay my bills. I need a job.
COMMENT: In your request, you asked me to suggest an appropriate verse to address your ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
11
09:30 AM
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PASSAGE: "But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted" (Romans 6:17).
COMMENT: ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
10
01:00 PM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE: "Those who are taught the word must share in all good things with their teacher. Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow. If you sow to your own flesh, you will ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
09
04:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
09
10:30 AM
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PASSAGE: "I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church at Cenchreae, so that you may welcome her in the Lord as is fitting for the saints, and help her in whatever she may require from ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
08
01:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once, and after that the judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
08
11:00 AM
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PASSAGE: "And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: "I know your works; you have a name of being alive, ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
08
08:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon. Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, ‘Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
03
PASSAGE: Isaiah 55
Ho, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and you that have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
Why ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
03
09:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
02
PSALM 82
God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: "How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked?
Give justice to the ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Mar
01
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Mar
01
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Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
25
10:15 AM
2 Comments
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PASSAGE: "Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
24
01:15 PM
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PASSAGE: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life” (John 3:16).
QUESTION: Many people in ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
24
QUESTION: Luke and Matthew have different accounts of the Christ child and his birth. Why might this be?
COMMENT: As you say, Matthew and Luke differ in significant ways in their versions of the ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
23
QUESTION: In our youth ministry, we want to talk a little about the story of Esther and I'm wanting another point of view on the principles in this story and the metaphysical interpretation. I have read ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
23
12:30 PM
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PASSAGE: "Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, 'In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
22
09:00 AM
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PASSAGE: "The hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each one to his home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone because the Father is with me. I have said this ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
18
04:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
18
10:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob he struck him on the hip socket; and Jacob's hip was put out of joint ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
16
PASSAGE: "Be still, and know that I AM God!" (Psalm 46:10).
COMMENT: Psalm 46 begins with the majestic affirmation "God is our refuge and our strength, a very present help in time ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
16
12:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins" ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
15
COMMENT: The fourth chapter of Romans is too long to be copied here—and really too complex in its entirety to encompass in one response. Paul is writing to the church in Rome, which he hoped to later ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
11
04:30 PM
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PASSAGE: "Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I go away the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you" (John 16:7).
...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
11
09:15 AM
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PASSAGE: “The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, asking him for a sign from heaven, to test him. 12And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, ‘Why does this generation ask for a ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
10
QUESTION: “Nothing happens in our life that is not with in God's plan.” I would like to know even if we or I have sinned? Is it in His plan? And have repented for the transgressions?
...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
09
11:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well" (Matthew 6:33).
QUESTION: Requested as a part of the benchmark ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
08
1 Timothy 2:11-12 "Let a woman learn in silence with full submission. I permit no woman to teach..."
01:30 PM
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PASSAGE: "Let a woman learn in silence with full submission. I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she is to keep silent" (1 Timothy 2:11-12).
QUESTION: This is ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
08
QUESTION: Coming from a traditional background, I have found Unity like "coming home." Along with that I brought much traditional baggage. Metaphysical translation has been very freeing to my ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
08
07:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "Then they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
04
QUESTION: Can you explain the seven steps of the creative process as described in the story of Genesis? I have a hard time in breaking out the different parts and seeing how they relate to the creative ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
03
03:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "Again, truly I tell you, if two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
03
09:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans, you were enticed and led astray to idols that could not speak. ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
02
10:30 AM
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PASSAGE: "For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery" (Galatians 5:1).
COMMENT: The first passionate controversy to arise ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
01
COMMENT: The Lord's Prayer is not a form of pleading or beseeching addressed to a distant God. It is a clear and simple affirmative prayer, in perfect and powerful alignment with Unity principles about ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
01
11:30 AM
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QUESTION: Genesis 28:15; Phil 4:6-7; 2 Peter 3:8-9; Psalm 104:33; Mark 10:27
Also John 4:25. If you could do all of these for me, I would appreciate it so much ...Thank you in advance xoxox Love ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Feb
01
QUESTION: "The Birth of Christ." I have heard many interpretations of this scripture and would like to have it cleared up.
COMMENT: There are actually two different scriptures. Matthew ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
28
09:30 AM
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PASSAGE: "Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Again, truly I tell you, if two of you agree on earth about ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
27
COMMENT: Ezekiel is a complex and confusing book of prophecy that is something like a pointillist painting. A lot of tiny dots—details and images—are assembled to create and express a larger ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
27
02:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach. And ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
27
11:30 AM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE: "But, as it is written, 'What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him'—these things God has revealed to us through ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
26
COMMENT: Chapter 54 of the Book of Isaiah was written during the final years of Babylonian exile; it is part of a section (Chapters 40-55) known as Second Isaiah, because the writer is different from the ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
25
03:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
25
11:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "Although you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy, for you are receiving the outcome ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
25
09:00 AM
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PASSAGE: "I became its servant according to God's commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, the mystery that has been hidden throughout the ages and generations ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
21
11:15 AM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE: "The one who rejects me and does not receive my word has a judge; on the last day the word that I have spoken will serve as judge, for I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
20
03:30 PM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE: "Immediately after the suffering of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken" ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
20
08:30 AM
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PASSAGE: "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends" (John 15:12-13).
QUESTION: ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
19
COMMENT: The term “sin” comes from a Greek root meaning “missing the mark.” Think of an archer aiming an arrow at a target. He makes a choice about where to aim that he believes ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
18
Matthew 27:46 "And about three o'clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, 'Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani...
04:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "And about three o'clock, Jesus cried with a loud voice, 'Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?' that is, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?'" (Matthew 27:46).
QUESTION: He supposedly ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
18
COMMENT: The sixth chapter of Romans is too long to copy here—and difficult to summarize in a brief response. The Letter to the Romans is a carefully constructed introduction which Paul sends to ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
14
MATTHEW 19:9—"And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another commits adultery."
MATTHEW 19:12—"For there are eunuchs who have ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
13
QUESTION: Through my journey back to my spiritual foundation, I have come across many of the same scriptures dropped in my spirit to read and meditate on. As I have grown spiritually and aligned with the ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
13
Matthew 18:12-14 "What do you think? If a shepherd has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone..."
08:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "What do you think? If a shepherd has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
12
REQUEST: I would like our family to celebrate Epiphany this year with a metaphysical understanding.
COMMENT: I'm sorry I wasn't able to respond before Epiphany, which is observed on January 6. ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
12
10:00 AM
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PASSAGE: "No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
11
02:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword" (Matthew 10:34).
QUESTION: This passage seems to conflict with everything ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
11
COMMENT: Adam and Eve are—along with the Lord and the serpent—the central characters in the second story of creation with which the Bible begins (Genesis, chapters 2-4). In traditional Christian ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
11
09:00 AM
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PASSAGE: “Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon. Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, ‘Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jan
11
07:45 AM
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PASSAGE: Luke 1:39-56 “In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
31
02:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "I can do all things through him who strengthens me" (Philippians 4:13).
COMMENT: You indicate in your request that this statement has helped you through many challenges. It ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
31
11:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "Because you have made the Lord your refuge, the Most High your dwelling place, no evil shall befall you, no scourge come near your tent. For he will command his angels concerning you to ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
31
COMMENT: Chapter 1 of the Book of Genesis (it really continues into the first three verses of Chapter 2) describes the first of the two distinct and different versions of creation that open the Book of ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
30
COMMENT: The New Testament book known as Acts of the Apostles is really the second part of the Gospel of Luke. Written by the same author, it continues the story by narrating the events that occurred immediately ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
30
11:30 AM
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PASSAGE: "When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, 'Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.' And Elisha said, 'I pray you, let me inherit a double share of your spirit.' And ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
30
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Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
29
02:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "Some Pharisees came to him, and to test him they asked, ’Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?’ He answered, ’Have you not read that the one who made ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
29
10:45 AM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE: "If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
29
08:00 AM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE: "Moses said, 'Show me your glory, I pray.' And he said, 'I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim before you the name 'The Lord'; and I will be gracious to whom I will ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
28
QUESTION: You said in an answer of 29 October: "There are, indeed, two versions of creation in the early chapters of the Book of Genesis. The first (Genesis 1:1-2:3) describes the seven days of creation, ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
28
12:15 PM
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PASSAGE: "Therefore, to keep me from being too elated, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I appealed to the Lord about ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
28
10:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases; yet we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
28
07:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "But Moses said to the people, 'Do not be afraid, stand firm, and see the deliverance that the Lord will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today you shall never see ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
17
02:30 PM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE: "Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, 'Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon. But he did not answer her at all. ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
17
11:15 AM
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PASSAGE: “About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was an earthquake, so violent that the foundations of the prison ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
17
08:00 AM
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PASSAGE: A scoundrel and a villain
goes around with crooked speech,
13winking the eyes, shuffling the feet,
pointing the fingers,
14with perverted mind devising evil,
continually ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
16
QUESTION: I would like to refer to some scripture regarding the desire of helping others, or being God's servant.
What I find when I listen to my friends (or even myself, on occasion) as we struggle ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
16
03:30 PM
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PASSAGE: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction" (Proverbs 1:7).
QUESTION: I do not understand why the Bible contains several passages ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
16
12:15 PM
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PASSAGE: "Be alert at all times, praying that you may have the strength to escape all these things that will take place, and to stand before the Son of Man" (Luke 21:36).
COMMENT: I ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
15
04:30 PM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE: "Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night and said to him, 'Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
15
PASSAGE: 18Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
15
12:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, 'Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?' He answered them, 'What did Moses command you?' They said, 'Moses allowed a man to write a ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
15
09:15 AM
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QUESTION: I have a Bible school book that we study weekly; it has questions that we need to answer. Since I myself started reading a lot of Unity's literature, I would like to be able to understand more ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
14
11:00 AM
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PASSAGE: "Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he" (Matthew 11:11).
QUESTION: ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
14
08:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart" (Psalm 37:4).
QUESTION: I prayed this scripture and believed and I did not get the desire of my heart. ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
10
02:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim to you a gospel contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let that one be accursed!" (Galatians 1:8).
QUESTION: Is this ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
10
09:30 AM
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PASSAGE: "Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:26).
QUESTION: ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
09
10:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "When they had entered the city, they went to the room upstairs where they were staying, Peter, and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
08
12:15 PM
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PASSAGE: "Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
07
01:15 PM
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HEBREWS 13:3: "Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who are being tortured as though you yourselves were being tortured."
COMMENT: This loving ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
07
11:00 AM
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PASSAGE: "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall" (Proverbs 16:18).
QUESTION: I visited my son in a drug rehabilitation center yesterday. He, his deacon from ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
07
08:30 AM
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PASSAGE: "Then the Jews said to him, 'You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?' Jesus said to them, 'Very truly I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.' So they picked up stones to ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
03
LUKE 11:2 "He said to them, 'When you pray, say: Father, hallowed by your name. Your kingdom come."
LUKE 17:20 "Once Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
03
11:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "Train children in the right way, and when old they will not stray" (Proverbs 22:6).
QUESTION: Children when they are grown make choices. Does this suggest that we as parents ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
02
QUESTION: God could not send the manna until all the wheat and grain were gone.
COMMENT: The phenomenon of “manna from God” for the Israelites in the wilderness is discussed extensively ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
02
12:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
02
08:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "Our soul waits for the Lord; he is our help and shield. Our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name. Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you" ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
01
03:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "The Lord called me before I was born, while I was in my mother's womb he named me. He made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me a polished arrow, ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
01
Genesis 22:17-18 "I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars..."
11:45 AM
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QUESTION: We have children, biological and adoptive, and me and my husband read somewhere in the Bible that God will bless our seed if we live for him. And I'm always reminding the heavenly father of this ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Dec
01
10:00 AM
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PASSAGE: "I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten" (Joel 2:25 RSV).
QUESTION: Experiencing too much stress struggle in manifesting my tithe return and prayers ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
30
QUESTION: What I am having a hard time deciphering is the New Testament’s interpretation of premarital sex. If you could provide some examples of Scripture pertaining to that subject and an interpretation ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
30
01:30 PM
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PASSAGE: "Others, to test him, kept demanding from him a sign from heaven. But he knew what they were thinking and said to them, 'Every kingdom divided against itself becomes a desert, and house falls ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
30
11:00 AM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE: "Very truly I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father" (John 14:12).
...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
30
09:15 AM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE: "But she came and knelt before him, saying 'Lord, help me.' He answered, 'It is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs.' She said, 'Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
23
03:15 PM
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PASSAGE: "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6).
COMMENT: The phrase you're asking about comes from ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
23
11:30 AM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE: Chapter 38 of the Book of Job is too long to copy here. Let's focus on the first seven verses, which give a strong sense of the entire chapter.
"Then the Lord answered Job out of ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
19
05:00 PM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE: "Then God spoke all these words: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
19
01:30 PM
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Hi Doris,
A scavenger hunt??? It's come to this?? I've become a resource for a Unity scavenger hunt? Sounds like fun, actually.
You won't be surprised to know that yours is not the first ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
19
QUESTION: I had a dream and this scripture was given to me.
COMMENT: Many of the psalms were written in times of defeat, to either blame God for what happened or to beseech God to come to their aid. ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
19
08:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Each builder must choose with care how to build on it. For ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
18
03:30 PM
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PASSAGE: "Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your neighbor, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye' while the log is ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
18
Matthew 27:46 "And about three o'clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, 'Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani...
12:15 PM
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Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
18
08:30 AM
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PASSAGE: “Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!" (Luke 12:51).
QUESTION: Just that I don't understand what it means. I thought ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
17
Dear Marilyn,
The Bible is "taken up" with the Jewish religion because it is the history of the Hebrew people, and that part of it we call the Old Testament was originally—and still ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
17
12:00 PM
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THE PASSAGE: "Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
17
09:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble" (Psalm 119:165).
QUESTION: I have been dreaming about this verse for weeks, and it floods my mind all ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
16
02:00 PM
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QUESTION: A better understanding to how biblical times are similar to our time. How relevant it is to us today. A better understanding about how God's path serves me. To grow my little faith and have a ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
16
11:00 AM
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PASSAGE: "Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them; he was the one who had reclined next to Jesus at the supper and had said 'Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?' ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
16
09:30 AM
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PASSAGE: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
16
QUESTION: A friend of mine was working on a traditional interpretation for one of his courses in his Master of Divinity Program. I wanted to share with him the metaphysical interpretation.
COMMENT: ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
12
05:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven; but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven" ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
12
09:00 AM
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PASSAGE: "Come, behold the works of the Lord; see what desolations he has brought on the earth. He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
11
QUESTION: I am new to Unity. I am a student of A Course in Miracles yet still have difficulty with the "Jesus our Lord and Savior" verbiage. Coming from a Jewish background I find it difficult ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
11
10:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he was hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the wayside he went to it, and found nothing on it but leaves only. And he said to it, 'May no fruit ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
10
10:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6).
QUESTION: I question how much meaning we've potentially ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
09
03:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten bridesmaids took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. When the foolish took their ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
09
08:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "Do not be afraid of sudden panic, or of the storm that strikes the wicked; for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught" (Proverbs 3:25-26).
...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
05
01:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to perish. But we speak God's wisdom, secret and hidden, which ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
03
03:15 PM
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PASSAGE: "In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
03
11:00 AM
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QUESTION: My friend is a divinity student at Liberty Baptist Theology and he says Unity is a cult and quoted these verses plus a few more to me. How do I respond? He has told his father, whom I am seeing, ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
02
04:30 PM
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PASSAGE: "Jesus answered him, 'Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.'" (John 3:3).
COMMENT: All that Jesus teaches and shares comes ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
02
01:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "Once Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, and he answered, 'The kingdom of God is not coming with things that can be observed; nor will they say, “Look, ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
02
QUESTION: I am studying The Quest with a group at my church. I would like to know the general interpretation of valley. I know that mountain means to rise in consciousness but I haven't found valley. Thank ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Nov
02
07:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
29
01:15 PM
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PASSAGE: "In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters" ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
27
11:15 AM
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QUESTION: This looks like a reworked statement from the Gnostic tradition and better attributable to the postresurrectional milieu. A couple of semiparallel examples from the Gospel of Thomas:
(1) ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
27
09:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "He said, 'In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, 'Grant me justice against ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
26
QUESTION: "Keep on keeping on" is used as an urban saying and I just wondered if it is in the Bible.
COMMENT: Well, "keep on keeping on" is not a direct quote from the Bible ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
26
QUESTION: A women's small study group is studying the Psalms. (We are also discussing Kathleen Norris' book, Acedia and Me.) I have a book on the Psalms by Robert Alder which is helpful, but it does not ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
26
QUESTION: Can you offer some insight into this passage where God tells Abraham to sacrifice Isaac but when he's just about to, the Lord stops him and more or less says, "... just kidding, don't do ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
22
04:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life" (John 3:16).
QUESTION: I thought we are ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
22
09:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "Do not ordain anyone hastily, and do not participate in the sins of others; keep yourself pure" (1 Timothy 5:22).
COMMENT: Paul is writing to "my loyal child in the faith" ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
21
01:30 PM
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PASSAGE: "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6).
QUESTION: Your Web page says, "Unity honors the ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
21
08:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "All these were constantly devoting themselves to prayer, together with certain women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, as well as his brothers" (Acts 1:14).
COMMENT: I must ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
20
04:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "O daughter Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall they be who pay you back what you have done to us! Happy shall they be who take your little ones and dash them against the rock!" (Psalm ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
20
12:30 PM
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PASSAGE: "Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, 'Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?' He answered them, 'What did Moses command you?' They said, 'Moses allowed a man to write a ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
20
09:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "Another of his disciples said to him, 'Lord, first let me go and bury my father.' But Jesus said to him, 'Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead'" (Matthew 8:21-22).
...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
19
04:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you." ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
19
01:30 PM
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PASSAGE: Job 42 ”Then Job answered the Lord:
2‘I know that you can do all things,
and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3“Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?” ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
19
11:00 AM
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PASSAGE: "The woman said to the serpent, 'We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; but God said, 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
19
08:45 AM
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QUESTION: I am a young missionary and I am going through a very rough time. On an assignment from Nashville, Tenn., I am in the enemy camp in Florida. And I want to know how to see my enemy.
PASSAGE: ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
14
01:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "Jabez was honored more than his brothers; and his mother named him Jabez, saying ‘because I bore him in pain.’ Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, 'Oh that you would bless ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
14
What interpretation are you using? The NIV states clearly that
homosexuals will not inherit the Kingdom of God. Do you guys have your
own Bible version that suits your needs?
I'm using the New Revised ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
14
08:00 AM
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PASSAGE: "Give liberally and be ungrudging when you do so, for on this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. Since there will never cease to be some ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
13
05:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all, training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
13
02:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
13
10:00 AM
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PASSAGE: "Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
13
08:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "'Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil; for who can govern this your great people?' It pleased the Lord that Solomon ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
12
04:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life" (John 3:16 NRSV).
QUESTION: New to Unity. ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
12
QUESTION: Well, in Hosea’s prophecy he says when the animals, fish, birds are dying then it is the end times. But science tells us the earth has sloughed off all living things many times so it is ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
12
09:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "When he was abused, he did not return abuse; when he suffered, he did not threaten; but he entrusted himself to the one who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
08
04:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "'Be still, and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth.' The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge" (Psalm 46:10-11 NRSV). ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
08
02:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. ’Teacher, which commandment in the ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
08
08:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. God is spirit, and those ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
07
03:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
07
08:00 AM
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QUESTION: Misogyny or mystic?
PASSAGE: "Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. She had a sister named Mary, who ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
06
04:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "Then he said to them, 'The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath; so the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath" (Mark 2:27-28 NRSV).
COMMENT: The ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
06
10:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "I hereby command you: Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go" (Joshua 1:9 NRSV).
COMMENT: Joshua has ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
05
02:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Oct
05
08:30 AM
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REQUEST: My multidenominational Bible study group will be talking about these verses during out next meeting.
PASSAGE: "Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten bridesmaids took ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
22
09:15 AM
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PASSAGE: "Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses" (Mark 11:25 NRSV).
QUESTION: Curiosity ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
21
03:30 PM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE:
For to which of the angels did God ever say,
‘You are my Son;
today I have begotten you’?
Or again,
‘I will be his Father,
and he will be my Son’? ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
17
11:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
16
04:15 PM
1 Comment
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PASSAGE: "For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope. Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
16
QUESTION: My family and are have been searching for years for "something" and through a friend discovered Unity. It is so in line with our beliefs, but we are not near a Unity Church. So my husband ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
15
08:15 AM
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QUESTION: This is my birthday Scripture. I was born on October 27. My daughter was born on January 9. Thank you.
Mark 10: 27—"For mortals it is impossible, but not for God; for God ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
14
QUESTION: I would like to apply ancient wisdom to modern life. I would like to look at it metaphysically so that I could live a fuller life. My father was not a religious person, but always said we should ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
10
03:15 PM
2 Comments
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THE PASSAGE: "A scoundrel and a villain goes around with crooked speech, winking the eyes, shuffling the feet, pointing the fingers, with perverted mind devising evil, continually sowing discord; ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
10
QUESTION: I found a note in my Dad's Bible, after he died, where he had written Numbers 11? He did not include the verse number, so in general, what are your thoughts about this chapter?
COMMENT: There's ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
10
09:15 AM
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THE PASSAGE: "At three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, 'Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?' which means 'My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?' (Mark 15:34 NRSV).
QUESTION: This ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
09
04:30 PM
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PASSAGE: On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3When the wine gave out, the mother of ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
09
01:15 PM
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QUESTION: I am discerning a ministry in Christ. I feel that he is calling me toward something much bigger than me but I have been getting confusing messages. Some say "Be still." Others say, ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
09
10:00 AM
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QUESTION: I've been curious about this passage for years. It seems out of context with the rest of Genesis. Who are the Nephilim? Who are the sons of God? Thanks for clarifying!
PASSAGE: "When ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
09
08:30 AM
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THE PASSAGE: "Now the company of prophets said to Elisha, 'As you see, the place where we live under your charge is too small for us. Let us go to the Jordan, and let us collect logs there, one for ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
08
04:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "When someone delivers to a neighbor money or goods for safekeeping, and they are stolen from the neighbor's house, then the thief, if caught, shall pay double. If the thief is not caught, ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
08
02:30 PM
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PASSAGE: 25 “Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. ‘Teacher,’ he said, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ 26He said to him, ‘What is written in the law? ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
08
10:00 AM
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QUESTION: My dear friend of over 40 years is an evangelical Christian, so we usually avoid discussing religion. However, we got onto the subject of gay marriage (her grandson, by the way, is gay and lives ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
08
QUESTION: I'm working with the youth at Unity of Livonia, and we are doing a project based on Noah's Ark and we are not sure how to explain to our youth that God chose to kill off everyone except Noah ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
08
08:00 AM
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PASSAGE: "Another of his disciples said to him, 'Lord, first let me go and bury my father.' But Jesus said to him, 'Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead'" (Matthew 8:21-22 NRSV). ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
07
Matthew 3:7-9 "But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptistm, he said to them..."
05:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "But when he (John the Baptist) saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them 'You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruit worthy ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
07
03:45 PM
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PASSAGE: "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts" (Zechariah 4:6 NRSV).
QUESTION: I opened the Bible and there ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
07
12:15 PM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE: "Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he gave it to them, saying 'Drink from it, all of you; for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
07
PSALM 30 (NRSV):
1 I will extol you, O Lord, for you have drawn me up,
and did not let my foes rejoice over me.
2 O Lord my God, I cried to you for help,
...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
07
08:30 AM
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PASSAGE: "But Moses said to God, 'If I come to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' what shall I say to them? God said ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
07
07:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
03
08:45 AM
0 Comments
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THE PASSAGE: "Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from unchastity and from ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
02
04:30 PM
0 Comments
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THE PASSAGE: "For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
02
08:45 AM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE: "Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer; hearken to my cry of supplication. In the day of my trouble I call on thee, for thou dost answer me" (Psalm 86:6).
COMMENT: Psalm 86 is a prayer, ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
01
02:30 PM
0 Comments
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PASSAGE: "Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you. Discipline yourselves, keep alert. ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
01
01:00 PM
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PASSAGE: "Very truly, I tell you, whoever keeps my word will never see death" (John 8:51 NRSV).
COMMENT: Jesus is speaking here to the Jewish religious authorities who are following ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Sep
01
10:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "So the last will be first, and the first will be last" (Matthew 20:16 NRSV).
COMMENT: This familiar statement is the last line of one of Jesus' most challenging parables: the ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Aug
31
02:45 PM
0 Comments
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QUESTION: Thank you for this opportunity to ask. I understand Psalms spoke about Jehovah being the most High over all the earth. Is His name just my interpretation?
Revelation 21 has been a favorite ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Aug
31
09:15 AM
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QUESTION: I had a situation occur in my life around 27 years ago where I had gone with insufficient amounts of sleep for a prolonged amount of time—as the disciples had in the Scripture cited—and ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Aug
26
10:45 AM
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PASSAGE: "Thomas said to him, 'Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?' Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Aug
25
11:45 AM
1 Comment
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PASSAGE: "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me" (Exodus 20:2-3 NRSV).
QUESTION: I can't ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Aug
24
01:30 PM
0 Comments
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THE PASSAGE: "Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Bath-zatha, which has five porticoes. In these lay many invalids—blind, lame and paralyzed. One man was there ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Aug
24
09:15 AM
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Dear Valerie,
Sometimes a Bible passage pretty much means what it says, and I think that's the case with Exodus 3:11. Moses is standing before the bush that burns but is not consumed, called suddenly ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Aug
20
04:45 PM
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Dear Rev. Ed: Though I can experience at times the peace of knowing God as a God “at hand,” His presence to me is hard to be conceived in space. If God is Spirit, and not a spirit, is he not ...
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Aug
20
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PASSAGE: "For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. To set the mind ...
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Aug
20
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QUESTION: Psalm 51:10-12 and Psalm 42:1-2 have been my daily prayers for years, and I am new to Unity and metaphysical interpretations and am really wondering …
Psalm 51:10-12: ...
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Aug
20
QUESTION: Any time that I hear others of other denominations speak of the Book of Revelation, their interpretations are always very frightening to me. However, when I hear Unity's interpretations of anything ...
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Aug
19
PASSAGE: "You who live in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shadow of the Almighty, will say to the Lord 'My refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.' For he will deliver you ...
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Aug
19
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PASSAGE: "For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness ...
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Aug
19
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PASSAGE: "Some Pharisees came to him, and to test him they asked, 'Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?' He answered, 'Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning ...
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Aug
18
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PASSAGE: "Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he brought them out from their distress; he made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed. Then they were glad because they ...
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Aug
18
REQUEST: Matthew 6:9-13. So when I say the Lord's Prayer I will understand references to "hallowed be thy name,“ “our daily bread" and "Thine is the Kingdom."
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Aug
18
2 Corinthians 3:1-8 "Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Surely we do not need, as some..."
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QUESTION: What is the metaphysical interpretation of 2 Corinthians 3:1-8?
PASSAGE: "Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Surely we do not need, as some do, letters of recommendation ...
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Aug
17
QUESTION: I am starting to study the Bible along with Unity principles and would like to know which you use the most for reading and metaphysical study. Thanks.
COMMENT: Congratulations on beginning ...
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Aug
17
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PASSAGE: "No weapon that is fashioned against you shall prosper, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication ...
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Aug
17
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PASSAGE: "Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. Other seed fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and ...
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Aug
13
REQUEST: I am searching for birth and marriage entry numbers.
COMMENT: I don't understand the specific request, but I'm happy to address the three passages you listed.
MATTHEW 10:26—"So ...
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Aug
12
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PASSAGE: "Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. From the days of John the Baptist ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Aug
11
Malachi 3:10-12 "Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my house..."
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PASSAGE: Malachi 3:10-12 "Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my house, and thus put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts; see if I will not open the windows of ...
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Aug
11
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PASSAGE: Daniel 3:19-26 “Then Nebuchadnezzar was so filled with rage against Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego that his face was distorted. He ordered the furnace heated up seven times more than was ...
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Aug
11
REQUEST: I fail to get a sense of peace and love when reading this book – just an overview of Unity's interpretation would be greatly appreciated, and thank you for all your spiritual help through ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Aug
10
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PASSAGE: "So we are always confident; even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord – for we walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Corinthians 5:6-7 NRSV). ...
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Aug
10
PASSAGE REQUESTED: "All of them!"
QUESTION: I've never studied the Bible before, and I'm having some difficulty understanding the passages.
COMMENT: My first suggestion would ...
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Aug
10
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THE PASSAGE: "Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. In these lay many invalids – blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was ...
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Aug
10
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PASSAGE: "Nor is that all; something similar happened to Rebecca when she had conceived children by one husband, our ancestor Isaac. Even before they had been born or had done anything good or bad ...
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Aug
10
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PASSAGE: "Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Aug
06
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PASSAGE: "Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten bridesmaids took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. When the foolish took their ...
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Aug
05
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PASSAGE: "As God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, ...
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Aug
03
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QUESTION: Growing up as a Roman Catholic, John 1:1 always confused me as I focused on the literal meaning of the word “word.” I now feel that word represents the essence of life, energy, ...
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Aug
03
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PASSAGE: "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sexual perverts, nor thieves, ...
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Aug
03
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THE PASSAGE: Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jul
30
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REQUEST: Well, on my spiritual Journey I occasionally just open the Bible to wherever and see what is being said. I have not been working for quite a few years and my wife has. I am basically at home cleaning. ...
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Jul
30
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QUESTION: Hello Rev Ed.
I understand what you have previously written about Jesus and the Christ. That Jesus is the Shower of the Christ within. But all through the New Testament Jesus is referred to ...
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Jul
30
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PASSAGE: "The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, 'How can this man give us his flesh to eat?' So Jesus said to them, 'Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and ...
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Jul
29
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PASSAGE: "Then God said, 'Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and ...
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Jul
29
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PASSAGE: "For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified" (Heb. 10:14).
COMMENT: Very little is known about the Letter to the Hebrews. Its author is ...
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Jul
29
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QUESTION: I am going to use this Scripture to teach about Jesus' message to his followers and I would like to have the metaphysical interpretation and meaning of this particular chapter for my use (or ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jul
29
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PASSAGE: "What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said 'See, this is new'? It has already been ...
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Jul
29
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VERSE: "Then he will say to those at his left hand, 'You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels" (Matthew 25:41 NRSV).
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Jul
28
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REQUEST: “You can do as I have done” – Or something like that. Jesus said this but I don't know where in the Bible it’s located or if it’s even said in these words. No particular ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jul
28
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PASSAGE: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."
COMMENT:
You have asked first about John 3:16; ...
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Jul
28
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REQUEST: "It is finished," the words of Jesus at crucifixion. Help me understand the last words of Jesus from a metaphysical orientation. I believe death and the truth are the same.
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Jul
27
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REQUEST: My grandson has become involved in a very fundamental church; he is 27 [and] still living at home. He told his parents he didn't have to do anything at home or do what they ask because they ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jul
27
Matthew 20:1-16 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning..."
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QUESTION: This is bothersome, and I experience guilt in thinking it seems unfair when God is fair in all of his dealings.
PASSAGE: "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went ...
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Jul
27
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THE PASSAGE: "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God – what is good and acceptable and perfect" ...
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Jul
27
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PASSAGE: Psalm 37:4 "Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart."
COMMENT: Psalm 37 is a ringing assurance that, no matter how 'the wicked' may seem to ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jul
27
08:45 AM
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Dear Friend,
RESPONSE: Scholars generally doubt that 1 Timothy is actually by Paul, but the passage you cite has nonetheless generated significant controversy through the years. But 1Timothy 2:15 ...
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Jul
27
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QUESTION: This statement has always intrigued me and I have tried to figure it out. I think children are innocent and unconditionally loving and maybe it means that we need to become as a child (unconditionally ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jul
22
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PASSAGE: "Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior. Just as the ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jul
21
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QUESTION: How does Unity explain the I AM? I was taught in traditional Christianity that the I AM was God himself. Do you interpret it as ourselves? Do you teach we are God? Help!
PASSAGE: "But ...
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Jul
21
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Dear Friend,
You are asking about verse 7 in the writing known as the Second Letter of John: "Many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come ...
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Jul
20
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PASSAGE: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth" (Mt.5:5).
COMMENT: This is, of course, one of the Beatitudes – the powerful precepts with which Jesus begins his ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jul
20
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PASSAGE: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself" (Lk. 10:27).
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Jul
20
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PASSAGE: "But, as it is written, 'What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him' – these things God has revealed to us through ...
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Jul
20
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QUESTION: I have never been clear on the metaphysical interpretation of Jacob wrestling with the angel. I am always struggling to understand many things. When I read the e-mail from Unity and saw there ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jul
16
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THE PASSAGE: “Where there are no oxen, there is no grain; abundant crops come by the strength of the ox” (Proverbs 14:4 NRSV).
COMMENT: It seems to me there are two possible implications ...
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Jul
16
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QUESTION: I have noticed a pattern starting with Cain and Abel, then Ishmael and Isaac, then Esau and Jacob, then Leah and Rachel, then Mannasseh and Ephraim that God favored the second even though it ...
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Jul
16
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THE PASSAGE: “Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jul
16
REQUEST: Exploring the concept of forgiveness as it relates to wholeness.
PASSAGE: "Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jul
15
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PASSAGE: "From the time that the regular burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that desolates is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred ninety days" (Dan. 12:11 NRSV).
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Jul
15
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QUESTION: I use this Psalm often as a source of strength and direction, and I want to make sure I understand it.
COMMENT: If you find in Psalm 37 “a source of strength and direction,” then ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jul
15
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PASSAGE: "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor ...
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Jul
09
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PASSAGE: "Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn to attack you" (Mt. 7:6).
COMMENT: This sounds ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jul
09
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Dear Friend,
The passage you are asking about is the final statement of a long thought which begins clearly and emphatically as follows: "Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ" ...
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Jul
09
Acts 12:10 "After they had passed teh first and the second guard, they came before the iron gate..."
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Acts 12:10 reads as follows: "After they had passed the first and the second guard, they came before the iron gate leading into the city. It opened for them of its own accord, and they went outside ...
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Jul
09
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REQUEST: Exodus 20:8-11. I would like to know if this pertains to us today to keep this seventh day holy.
PASSAGE: "Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. Six days you shall ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jul
09
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Dear Friend,
You are asking about this passage from John 14:2-3: "In my Father's house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jul
08
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Dear Friend,
Your request is simply for "Peter 1:5-7." I'm going to assume you mean 2 Peter, since the corresponding verses in 1 Peter don't stand alone. In 2 Peter 1:5-7 we read: "For ...
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Jul
07
Dear Friend,
The 21st chapter of the Revelation to John is, I think, one of the most sublime in the entire Bible. The fearsome and exhausting wars and conflicts are behind us. The terrifying illusions ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jul
07
1 Peter 2:24 "Who his own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree ... that we should live..."
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THE QUESTION: There is so much that I am in agreement with in Unity teachings, Our Oneness with God, that we are the manifested Sons of God, and I'm sure many more. However, the one thing that keeps me ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jul
07
THE SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 9:27, Revelation 20:12-15, John 3:16-18
THE QUESTION: These are the three sections in the Bible from Joyce Meyer's statement of faith describing her interpretation as follows: "The ...
Posted By Rev. Ed Townley
Jul
06
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THE QUESTION: PSALM 32:8 is one of my favorite quotes. I use it to help people realize He's here, every day, just listen. That way you'll remember your keys before you lock the door. I love listening to ...
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Jul
06