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Tag: Love Paradigm

Easter: Good News for Zombies!

Posted on April 11, 2023April 4, 2023 by Michael Rose
Wow! More than a few years ago, we were visiting a Church in Arizona on Easter Sunday. The Pastor, an acquaintance, was tremendously creative with sharing the Gospel through pop culture and his Easter Sunday message was no exception. He was presenting the Easter story using various media and was at the part in Matthew…
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Two Parades. The Lie of Sacred Violence

Posted on April 10, 2022April 10, 2022 by Michael Rose
It was the beginning of Passover as Jesus and his friends headed to Jerusalem for the to celebrate Israel’s liberation from Egypt.  Word spread that He was on His way to the city. People ran out to meet this Jesus who was taking the land by storm, with his radical teachings of love; turning the…
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Dream a little Dream with Me

Posted on February 18, 2021February 20, 2021 by Michael Rose
I have been asked, “Where are you coming from with IamSignificant.ca?  Is it self-help/ self-improvement? Or is it spiritual / faith stuff?  Grief/loss care?  What is it?”  I smile and say, “Yes, and more!“ I am coming from a place that mystic and monk Thomas Merton so aptly states – it’s all spiritual, or none…
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Welcome to my Garden

Posted on June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 by Michael Rose
Take your shoes off in the garden of my soul for it is holy ground. You are welcome in the vulnerability of your bare feet to spend some time and be refreshed. All I ask is that you stay to the path as not to trample and crush the most delicate of new vegetation, and…
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Seeing through Jesus

Posted on April 30, 2020August 18, 2020 by Michael Rose
Hey Mike,  We know, according to scripture, God chose the Israelites as his people. Joined together under a covenant. There were several other tribes or nations on the earth and they must have had their own creation stories and modes of worship so was God not with them? It wouldn’t be Yahweh, but it would…
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The Many Faces of Love – Agape

Posted on November 13, 2019April 26, 2021 by Michael Rose
It is important to be specific and clear what we mean when we talk about love. There are many different kinds of expression of love but having a solid living/working definition of love is crucial.
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The Logos is Nonsense

Posted on October 4, 2019May 6, 2022 by Michael Rose
In the beginning, was the logos and the logos was with God and the Logos was God…. begins a very familiar verse from John’s Gospel. Lots has been done with the word logos and like many words, it has evolved over time.
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Finding Community along the Beautiful Way

Posted on September 25, 2019November 23, 2022 by Michael Rose
For at least the last decade many have been sensing a new reformation taking shape. It started to be a fairly broad critique of what manifests as institutional forms of church and the nature of its structures. Much has been written on this issue and we have seem a steady exodus from western institutional forms of church regardless of stripe.
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I wish I could hate them.

Posted on July 18, 2019July 18, 2019 by Michael Rose
I wish I could hate them. In ways, it would be so much easier. Their violence, racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, xenophobia, greed, exploitation of the poor, the anything-to-win-politics and indiscriminate, consumption of the planet and each other.  I hate the scapegoating, half-truths, spins … all the bullshit.  I hate the value of winning at all…
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Advent – Birthing of Christ Conciousness

Posted on December 18, 2018December 16, 2022 by Michael Rose
So, this post is a bit different for me.  The experience I share isn’t unusual for me; it is the sharing of it that is unusual. I am reluctant to share some of the more intimate experiences but felt this might be an encouragement to someone. Last week during a quiet time,  I found myself…
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