Spiritual Progress - 17th Sunday After Trinity

What do John the Baptist and Elijah have to do with Spiritual Progress?

How relevant is Spiritual Progress to our current situation? How can we avoid some of the current dangers associated with Love of Money and the pursuit of worldly gains?

Into what kinds of traps do we most easily fall? 

We also explore these topics:

What is "a reed shaken with the wind"?

John the Baptist and the mysterious "Egyptian"

Simon Peter, Simon Magus and Dositheus

Johanine Baptism and Christian Baptism

What is the world we really live in, in this life?

The Mandaeans, the Nasoraeans and the Liar

The essential similarity between ourselves and God the Father in Heaven

The journey of a thousand miles

What is the Mind and how has it been used to help us progress?

The mess of our world: what are the historical solutions to the mess we find ourselves in? 

What is the Rational Mind and is it the same as the Higher Mind?

What Paul means when he instructs Timothy to lay hold on eternal life. 

Is there a way to be scientific about spiritual progress?

The way of lusts and the way of meekness

Bit of a long one this time: apologies for that.

Texts:

1 Timothy 6

Matthew 11