http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/wordpress Discovering your purpose and mission Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:08:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Media Humanism Here is a great example of how humanism is creeping into our media. Hi, dear friends, You who love Christ should see this information. I chanced to see a bit of Oprah, though I do not watch her program. I saw her introduce the book and “life transformation” program ... http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/wordpress/2008/04/07/media-humanism/ If you read the front page story of the SF Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay ... http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/wordpress/2008/03/03/116/ In reality, faith always springs from a relationship. You don’t have faith that it won’t rain for your party tomorrow or to win the lottery. Faith is the result of believing someone. It is an unconscious process of acting on something because we believe someone. If you scheduled that outdoor ... http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/wordpress/2008/02/11/the-reality-of-faith/ As I work on my The Illusion book, I came to a chapter on Place, entitled “The Illusion of the Exile”. Most of us live as Exiles, lost to Place. My own city of Portland was started by exiles looking for that lost Garden. Paul Tournier makes an ... http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/wordpress/2008/01/25/finding-place/ A special message for those wondering if God can use them during this next year: Noah was a drunkard, Abraham was too old, Isaac was a daydreamer, Jacob was a liar, Joseph was abused, Moses was a murderer, Gideon was afraid, Rahab was a prostitute, Timothy was too young, David had an illicit ... http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/wordpress/2007/12/31/no-more-excuses/ Pray for Carl as he begins work on his next book, The Illusion. The book will take at least a year to complete. We will share pieces of it as work progresses. Some of the material can be seen off the prayer menu at: http://www.creatingnewworlds.org//prayervision.htm If you haven’t seen the ... http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/wordpress/2007/07/02/the-illusion/ We have opened up a new catetgory on the main menu on prayer. Lots of good stuff there. The city-reaching stuff is still there under the church. Enjoy! Within the next few days, we’ll add more to the prayer resources. http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/wordpress/2007/07/02/prayer-and-the-website/ I like to talk about change, and during the next few months you will see some changes here I think you’ll like. Here are some of these you can expect to see: Main menu changes to include The Journey, Prayer, Healing… Better usability, such as interactive buttons. The addition of professional graphics The updating ... http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/wordpress/2007/02/24/changes-and-transformation/ During the last year I lost a great friend and mentor to cancer, and today I have three other friends battling major diseases for their life. Man was created by God in the Garden free of disease, and disease entered the world when Man disobeyed God and ate of the ... http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/wordpress/2007/01/03/favorite-books-on-prayer-and-healing-2006/ Here is one of our favorite Christmas stories: http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/thestory.htm Have a wonderful Christmas. News Item: “The city of Boston sparked controversy when it renamed the spruce tree in Boston Common a holiday tree unstead of a Christmas tree. The city’s nativity scene will now be [called] the Holiday Homeless Family.” Tina Fey http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/wordpress/2006/12/22/a-christmas-story/