myTakes: Religion & Spirituality

I used this image because the devil is chained to the tree by a snake and in the same way the hypocrite is chained to a lifestyle of bitterness and hate by the foils of deception. The issue I am stressing today is the...

You have to have faith. When I first returned to university after a hiatus, I was 6 years older than the other students and had a 1.0 cumulative GPA and people laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a professor. But I...

I believe that an immature believer who has not yet learned humility cannot accept God’s law and will refute those who try to teach God’s law I also believe that a biased spirit does not have the emotional or...

This is an image of a money tree because there was a time in my life where I honestly thought I could talk my way into money and respectability and marriage and jobs. But it did not fly. I learned that God expects...

1. Venting to Insightful Non Participants I remember complaining to a woman saying our friend was evil because he yelled at me and her response was, maybe he was having a bad day and you just happened to be around when he...

My experience with evil people who say or do or think or contemplate or plan or suggest evil is that in these cases, evil is almost always about power and control. People want to feel powerful so they hurt others. People...

There are three statements that Jesus made about large groups of people 1. The majority will choose the path of ignorance and self destruction because it has the least resistance and lowest life standards and smoothest...

The first thing I learned is that you have to become clean before you canbecome responsible because if you marry or build a family with a corrupt heart, you will abuse your husband or wife and you will abuse your...

There are multiple ideological systems that pervade throughout scripture, one being the binary of acceptance and rejection, the binary of humility vs. self promotion, the binary of modesty vs excessive self disclosure, or...

Not everything that is religious is spiritual and not everything that is spiritual is religious. Compassion and kindness are spiritual ideas that come directly from God but they don’t always involve direct worship or acts...

1. Can music activate your chakras? I am going to attach a youtube video, where Sadhguru explains whether chakras can be activated with music. Sadhguru speaks about spirituality and he is on youtube. I highly recommend...

In the same way that a rainbow is composed of different colours so we have unique and very significant functions in this life. You might not be able to do what they can do but neither can they do what you can do. We all...

I had a crises of doubt when I first discovered the gospel of God and one of the reasons I struggled with doubt is that I grew up in a secular family where we believed every creation had to be calculated and materialized...

The way I see it is that God does not punish most of the people who go to hell, instead the hell bound person destroys himself when karma catches up to him for his evil deed and the victim is rewarded not when he earns...

People expect their opponents to compensate them for the wrong they suffered. But you do not need compensation from your enemy. Because God will compensate you for what you went through. Either in this life or in the...

The first is that you have to purify your heart before binding your soul to God’s principles because your spirit must match the spirit that God’s principles are built around and if you bind an angry and hateful and...

The serpent that tempted Eve in the garden of Eden told Eve that she would not die if she ate from the forbidden tree. But you see there was a second lie that Eve believed beyond the belief she would not die: She...

This is a photo of Viktor Frankl, the psychotherapist who invented a new form of psychology once he left the Nazi death camp as a freed prisoner of war. He said that boredom is caused by a lack of moral fibre and...

1. Learn from Others Viktor Frank was a Jewish Holocaust survivor who had the option of escaping the Holocaust and relocating to America prior to his imprisonment but decided to risk his life in the camps because he could...

Holocaust Survivor and renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl created a new form of psychotherapy after his release from the camps called Logo Therapy which is when you treat a mental disorder by giving the mental patient...