Personal Development, Shamanism and Environmental Issues

What Is Spiritual Personal Development?
by Dr. G. Steve Kinnard

What Is Spiritual Personal Development?

Dr. G. Steve Kinnard

You might have read a personal development book within the last year or two. Have you ever read a book on spiritual personal development? What is the difference between the two? Personal development books are also called self-help books. Spiritual personal development is not “self-help.” Spiritual personal development is “God-help.” In that one change of words, from self-help to God-help, is a world of difference.

Spiritual: Spiritual personal development focuses on giving us the tools we need to become mature, spiritual, and productive disciples of Jesus. Spiritual personal development focuses on our spiritual nature. If we feed our spiritual hunger, then the character of God’s Spirit will grow in our hearts.

Personal: First, spiritual growth is a personal matter. Although we live with each other in community, each of us has a personal relationship with God that we must nurture. At the end of the day, each individual disciple is responsible for his or her own spiritual growth. Second, we all grow in different ways. We also grow at different speeds. In this way, spiritual growth is personal.

Development: “And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.” Luke 2:52 Jesus grew. Growth is good. Since Jesus grew, we need to grow as well. We need to develop into the people that God meant for us to be. God wants us to mature. He is fully committed to helping us grow into solid, mature, fruitful disciples of Jesus.

Do you have a plan for your spiritual personal development? Most of us don’t. This web site will help you develop a plan for your spiritual personal development. It will help you ascertain your spiritual gifts. It will teach you how to make wise, spiritual choices. It will teach you various spiritual disciplines that will help you to connect with God and to feed your spirit. It will help you to set and to achieve spiritual goals in your life.

A wise man once said, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Let the journey begin!

Dr. Kinnard is a teacher and evangelist with the New York City Church of Christ. For more inspirational articles on spiritual growth visit (http://www.stevekinnard.com) The Way of The Heart.

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Everything You Know About God is Wrong, Russ Kick

Posted By Ina Woolcott

Everything You Know About God is Wrong, the Disinformation Guide, edited by Russ Kick. His previous anthologies include the bestselling You Are Being Lied To, Everything You Know Is Wrong, Abuse Your Illusions and Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong. He is the author of 50 Things You’re Not Supposed To Know Volumes 1 and 2 and The Disinformation Book of Lists, among other books. He is the creator of the popular website www.TheMemoryHole.org

Everything You Know About God is Wrong has contributions from Richard Dawkins, Neil Gaiman, Douglas Rushkoff, Erik Davis, Michael Parenti, Greta Christina, Paul Krassner, Dianna Narciso, HG Wells and 31 others… This massive book systematically reveals the distortions, myths, and utter weirdness that have been shoved down our throats by organized religions of all stripes, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, new religions, and others who want to keep their lucrative franchises intact. Russ Kick has assembled an unprecedented arsenal of writers, reporters, and researchers to invade the inner sanctum for an unrestrained look at the wild and wooly world of organized belief. Among the revelations inside:

Plus, this book includes rare, eye-popping photos of bizarre religious objects, ceremonies, and sites, including snake-handlers, pot-smoking children, explicit Hindu statues, and the woman giving birth on Christianity’s highest altar.

As if that weren’t enough, this book also delves into:

• the definitive explanation of why America is not a Christian nation
• the thinly veiled anti-Semitism in the Left Behind novels
• how the “big three” religions curse their enemies
• the Catholic Church’s “gulags for women”
• the “Mechanical Messiah” built in the nineteenth century
• the Sixth Dalai Lama’s erotic poetry

Dispensing with theory and dogma, Everything You Know About God Is Wrong goes where wise men have often feared to tread for fear of lightning bolts, stoning, or the tortures of the Inquisition. One thing’s for sure: after reading this book you’ll never look at religion in the same way again.

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