Unity of Farmers Branch (Formerly The Church Of One Love)
Weekly sermons from Unity Farmers Branch (Formerly Church of One Love) in Farmers Branch, TX.
Episodes
When we want to take right action in the world, we must first become truly aware of what is going on—to understand what the problem or challenge really is. When we become aware of discomfort, we tend to jump to take whatever action we think will most quickly relieve our immediate suffering. Too often that action leads us to ever more suffering down the road. Effective action is always only possible following a period of acceptan...
On this, International Day of Peace—we celebrate the founding ideals of the United Nations: to promote peace, end conflict, and foster global cooperation to build a peaceful and sustainable world. These are global ideas, but work on the personal level as well. In fact, peace will only ever happen globally when it first happens person to person as we communicate with others in non-accusatory, non-violent , kind and loving ways. ...
Stillness is a secret superpower that—when practiced-- brings us closer to who we really are. In stillness we commune with God, instinctively feel our oneness with nature and with all beings, and come to know ourselves more deeply. So why is it so hard to get and stay still? It is so easy to become overwhelmed by distractions, anxieties, activities, to-do lists, that we seldom experience the gifts of true stillness. This week,...
Throughout history humankind has believed in Truth, only to find out that it was, after all, not really True. Is it possible that we really do not know anything for a fact? What and where is our guiding star, or is there such a thing?
We seem to have been on an evolutionary journey to discover what God is, only to see it slide away from us more often than not.
Let us take a look at where we have been, where we are, and imagine wh...
Is that a suit of armor? Can you take it off? As humans we hurt and then we try to protect ourselves from it ever happening again. Unfortunately, we cannot build walls (or wear suits) that close our hearts only to what is painful. A closed heart is a closed heart. So how do we navigate a world where to keep an open heart feels too painful, but to close it and live in the mind would make us cold and unfeeling? How can we find b...
What is with this “praise and worship” that traditional churches do? Does the thought of "praising" offend? What even is “praise?” or “worship?” Does praising something make us somehow lower than the object of our praise? Does God “need” it? Or do humans have a need to express praise? What in your life today might be calling for awe, wonder, gratitude, NOTICE?
Are you paying attention to your messages? Checking your Earth-mail? Checking in with yourself? Being open to the many messages and all the different guises messengers take puts us in communication with the angels—literally!
Do we make “soul contracts” with each other? Is there truly a reason we meet the “random” people we do, have the particular experiences of life, make the synchronous connections we make? Do they (or can they) all lead to our soul’s growth? Are they part of a larger plan? Are we in on it? Let’s explore these questions and take look at life as if it were a school whose curriculum we might help design.
Just as the future can only be met from the place of the present moment, the past too, can be met right here right now in the present--has value in helping us to understand how it shaped and may still affect us in our present. Let’s learn to look, learn, then forgive and let go. A wise person once said, “There’s nothing wrong with looking at the past—as long as you don’t stare!”
Most of us would love to know what’s ahead. We have all kinds of questions? Will I be happy? Healthy? Alone? More spiritual? Aging gracefully? Insecure? All these anxious questions are about maintaining the illusion of control. We think if we know what’s coming we can prepare for it. Since we can never know what will happen in the world, the only way to be ready is to prepare our inner selves to meet with whatever comes. Wil...
We love to think of ourselves as independent, but the truth is we are all inextricably connected in- and as- the One. Physically, we cannot survive without each other and without the resources of Mother Earth. In fact, we have become so specialized that in a literal sense we depend upon each other for almost everything—the intricate processes of providing for our daily needs of food, water, medical care, transportation, shelter,...
…is that we all have it to a degree. To be ignorant is to NOT KNOW. And none of us can know what we don’t know until we know it. Confused? As we own our own ignorance, it can help us to have true compassion and empathy for those we might otherwise judge and condemn. And one of the greatest gifts of admitting to ignorance is that we can then develop the sacred quality of Beginners’ Mind—in which all possibilities exist. Ready ...
The Middle Way, a core concept in Buddhism, emphasizes finding balance and moderation between extremes, particularly in thought and action.
We hear a lot about the gifts of the “Divine Feminine,” and find that our masculine structures are often spoken of today in denigrating terms. This is not about anything being wrong with the masculine, but about our being out of balance in expressing these divine energies. The Masculine Principle is both Divine and Beautiful: the other side of the same holy coin. Our wholeness lies in finding balance between the two sacred energ...
3. We Co-create with God; 4: We commune with God; 5. We express as God. Since God IS the oneness in which we live and move and have our being, and we are all individuations of that One, we have the power to create our experience of life as part of that vast divinity. We do this by directing our thoughts, by immersing ourselves in the truth of our being, aligning our focus and purpose, and by taking action that supports the creat...
1. God is Good, and God is all there is; and 2. We are that—the very substance of God is our substance, meaning our very essence is God, and is good. These statements are in alignment with COOL’s tenets of oneness with God and with each other, yet regardless of our belief in our ultimate oneness, it is a constant challenge for us to see the world, other humans, God itself, as ultimately “good,” when the evidence of our eyes could...
This week the service will be led by your Prayer Partner team!
Spiritual Growth does not occur through affirmative prayer alone, but through spiritual study and contemplation, different forms of meditation, and through spending quiet time with our Higher Self and our personal understanding of the Divine. We hope you will join us again as we share our prayer and meditation experience w...
Throughout history, mankind’s evolution has been slowed or even stopped by the belief in the certainty of facts that were known to be TRUE, but turned out not to be so. This is clearly true in the spiritual and religious world. Today, we will use a few current events and a Biblical story to see how our definition of God was formed from ancient literature, and how we can transcend those old beliefs through the use of metaphysical c...
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