365 January 31

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

1:15:36

In this episode, we welcome back David French, columnist for The New York Times , former constitutional attorney, and author of Divided We Fall . We discuss the current state of American democracy, the challenges of political division, and how we can engage in civil discourse despite deep ideological differences. David also shares a personal update on his family and reflects on the profound trials and growth that come with adversity. 📌 What We Discuss: ✔️ How David and his family navigated the challenges of a serious health crisis. ✔️ The rise of political polarization and the factors driving it. ✔️ Why distinguishing between “unwise, unethical, and unlawful” is crucial in analyzing political actions. ✔️ How consuming different perspectives (even opposing ones) helps in understanding political dynamics. ✔️ The role of Christian values in politics and how they are being redefined. ⏳ Episode Highlights 📍 [00:01:00] – David French’s background and his journey from litigation to journalism. 📍 [00:02:30] – Personal update: David shares his wife Nancy’s battle with cancer and their journey as a family. 📍 [00:06:00] – How to navigate personal trials while maintaining faith and resilience. 📍 [00:10:00] – The danger of political paranoia and the pitfalls of extreme polarization. 📍 [00:18:00] – The "friend-enemy" paradigm in American politics and its influence in Christian fundamentalism. 📍 [00:24:00] – Revisiting Divided We Fall : How America’s divisions have devolved since 2020. 📍 [00:40:00] – The categories and differences of unwise, unethical, and unlawful political actions. 📍 [00:55:00] – The balance between justice, kindness, and humility in political engagement. 📍 [01:00:00] – The After Party initiative: A Christian approach to politics focused on values rather than policy. 💬 Featured Quotes 🔹 "You don't know who you truly are until your values are tested." – David French 🔹 "If we focus on the relational, we can have better conversations even across deep differences." – Corey Nathan 🔹 "Justice, kindness, and humility—if you're missing one, you're doing it wrong." – David French 🔹 "The United States has a history of shifting without repenting. We just move on." – David French 📚 Resources Mentioned David French’s Writing: New York Times David’s Book: Divided We Fall The After Party Initiative – More Info Advisory Opinions Podcast (with Sarah Isgur & David French) – Listen Here 📣 Call to Action If you found this conversation insightful, please: ✅ Subscribe to Talkin' Politics & Religion Without Killin' Each Other on your favorite podcast platform. ✅ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen: ratethispodcast.com/goodfaithpolitics ✅ Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/politicsandreligion ✅ Watch the full conversation and subscribe on YouTube: youtube.com/@politicsandreligion 🔗 Connect With Us on Social Media @coreysnathan: Bluesky LinkedIn Instagram Threads Facebook Substack David French: 🔗 Twitter | BlueSky | New York Times Our Sponsors Meza Wealth Management: www.mezawealth.com Prolux Autogroup: www.proluxautogroup.com or www.granadahillsairporttransportation.com Let’s keep talking politics and religion—with gentleness and respect. 🎙️💡…

год назад 1:59

MP3•Главная эпизода

My Thought Establishes New Beginnings For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. —ISAIAH 65:17

"Nothing is ever twice alike. It is said that the physical body is never more than a year old, that we discard many bodies through this life. Everything is continuously being re-created, and it literally is true that the creative Spirit is forever making a new heaven and a new earth. We must permit It to make them new for us.

I empty my mind of every thought of fear and doubt. I condemn no one and no thing, not even myself. Forgetting that which is past and having no fear for the future, I live today as though the new heaven and the new earth were already accomplished facts in my experience. I live in harmony with people and with all the situations that surround me. I see and feel the Presence of Good running through everything. I have complete faith that this Divine Presence reveals Itself to me in every thought, in every word, and in every act.

There is nothing in my past experience and nothing in my thought about the future that can in any way deny me the pleasure and the privilege of living today as though everything were complete and perfect. “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” My whole expectancy is of much and more, of good and of better. The future is bright with hope and fulfillment. The present is perfect, and no past failure mars today’s understanding.”

Excerpt From 365 Science of Mind Ernest Holmes

99 эпизодов

365 January 31

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

published год назад

MP3•Главная эпизода

My Thought Establishes New Beginnings For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. —ISAIAH 65:17

Excerpt From 365 Science of Mind Ernest Holmes

99 эпизодов

Все серии

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

1
365 April 29 1:54

47 weeks назад1:54

1:54

The Lord is my light and my salvation. —PSALM 27:1 "Of course, we all wish for salvation. We all want to be happy; we should like to be well. We want people to like us. We desire to love and be loved. And above everything else, we want and need an inward sense of security and peace of mind. It is true that we all long for the Kingdom of God on Earth, and the great struggle of man is toward freedom, emancipation from want and fear and disease, and from everything that can hurt. We all long to return to our lost paradise. Man is put on Earth to enjoy life, and he is given the freedom to decide how he is to live; always there is placed before him the possibility of two things: to be or not to be. Finally all real Power must rest on the side of Good, and finally evil will be vanquished by Good. This is the whole meaning of the story of the Savior, the lifting of the Life Principle on the Tree of Life—the coming to realize that we are One with God forever. The story of the Garden of Eden is completed through the triumph of the cross. Jesus discovered the meaning of Life at the center of his own being and showed humanity, for all time, what can happen when someone lives as though God were real to him, as though Love were the final Power, and Good the final arbiter of fate. What are we going to do with this greatest of all Truths—the relationships that we as individuals have to the Divine Spirit that is already Perfect and that desires only our good? If we are weary of our troubles, there is something we can do about it. We can begin to exalt the Life Principle within us.” Excerpt From 365 Science of Mind Ernest Holmes…

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

1
365 April 17 1:42

49 weeks назад1:42

1:42

If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be cast into the sea; it shall be done. —MATTHEW 21:21 "Our activity of thought is actually a Divine compulsion of the One Mind in us seeking an ever-increasing achievement and expression through us. The forms and outlets for this self-conscious process of thought, which appear as a unique creation of life in man, may manifest in many ways. We each interpret and use the urge for greater expression. For some, the fulfillment of this inner drive may be found in a new home, increased business activity, or better health, as well as in a desire for greater spiritual awareness. All of these desires are urges of the indwelling Intelligence, and we either can combat the urges we feel or we can give them expression. The choice is ours to make. But we cannot stand still. We have to continue to express this action of Life within us because creativity is our Divine Essence. Our lives and experiences may well be likened to a river. If we stand on the bank of a river and watch it flow by, we become aware that the river never changes but that its content is always new. By analogy, we might say the purposeful dynamic quality of life within us never changes, but the content of our experience of living never remains the same.” Excerpt From 365 Science of Mind Ernest Holmes…

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

1
365 April 14 1:42

50 weeks назад1:42

1:42

The Lord will perfect that which concerneth thee. —PSALM 138:8 "The natural order of evolution has brought us to a place where there is a quickening of the spirit, a keener perception of the mind, a deeper introspection of the soul; the veil between Spirit and matter is thinning. We are emerging into a spiritual universe, proclaimed alike by the philosopher, the religionist, the scientist, and the idealist, and yet the nature of Reality or ultimate Truth cannot have changed. Two and two were four a million years ago. The awakening is to the Mind and Spirit. The passing of old orders of thought is but a proclamation of the inauguration of new and higher orders. Modern psychology, metaphysics, and philosophy all announce a new birth of the Mind, a new discovery of the self, a new consciousness of the intimacy of the Mind with the subtle Spirit within each of us. There appears to be one persistent purpose behind the great forward movement of evolution, namely, the expression of Intelligence, through creation, into higher, finer, and more complex forms. An insistent and intelligent Urge in the Life-Principle impels it to express. Spirit is forever clothing itself in form. If we were to ask our imagination why this is so, the answer might be that God Himself would remain a nonentity unless He were expressed. Even to the Infinite, some form of creative action and expression is necessary.” Excerpt From 365 Science of Mind Ernest Holmes…

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

1
365 April 12 1:43

50 weeks назад1:43

1:43

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. —JOHN 1:3 "Every human being thrills at the thought of having dreams come true. The idea means different things to different people. To one it may mean physical health: the ability to walk, run, play, and engage in activity. To another, it may mean abundance: a home, a car, opulence. To yet another, dreams may mean education, the ability to get along with people, or to have a loving mate. Whatever your personal desires may be—as long as they do not hurt you or someone else—you have a right to attain them. And you can. The ability to attain your goals—to control your experiences and have them result in happiness, prosperity, and success—lies in your own mind and the way you use it. This means you control your own experience—you are really in charge of your affairs and the way they are to develop. If your thinking processes are under your personal control and if thought is acted upon by the creativity of Mind to produce results according to your belief, then you surely do have the power to become the master of your own affairs and to bring to pass those good conditions you desire. Let us keep in mind that we not only have the God-given ability to do this kind of results-oriented thinking, but that we also have the right to do it. Every thought that is a negation should be changed to an affirmation. When we do so, the Power that constantly flows through us will respond by producing the new experience we have affirmed.” Excerpt From 365 Science of Mind Ernest Holmes…

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

1
365 April 11 1:44

50 weeks назад1:44

1:44

In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death. —PROVERBS 12:28 "You and I should look across the new horizon of the greater possibility that resides within us and meet the living God and feel the embrace of His Presence and come at last to know the infallibility of His Power. From out of the great Mind that is God, the way of life is made perfect and straight and immediate. It is made happy and whole and prosperous. We should awake to the living Presence of the Eternal God within each one of us and enter into a realization of a new peace and joy. As we come to surrender all littleness, and all fear and doubt, that great river of Life flowing from the Mind of God will renew our vigor, remake our strength, ennoble our being, heal our bodies, and bring peace to our hearts. As our thoughts are cleared of all that is unlike Him who created us, they become receptacles for the outpouring of all that is good, wonderful, and true. God’s Love always embraces us, His Wisdom is always within us, and His Joy is ours to share. Abundance is everywhere.” Excerpt From 365 Science of Mind Ernest Holmes…

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

1
365 April 10 1:27

50 weeks назад1:27

1:27

In God we live, and move, and have our being. —ACTS 17:28 "Life is activity, and when we stop being active we turn away from the newness of life. And the person who grows old in years without an inward expectation and assurance that he is going to live forever, somewhere, will find the last part of his life burdened with the thoughts of yesterday. Let us make up our minds that yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet arrived. But today can be filled with wonder if we know that we stand on the threshold of that which is wonderful and new. I have never yet met a single individual who maintained this attitude in the last part of his life unless he had faith. And I am talking about the kind of faith we all understand the meaning of—faith in Something bigger than ourselves, in a Power greater than ourselves, and a complete assurance that we are going to live forever, somewhere. It is an interesting fact that, whether we know it and whether or not we like it, our lives are so tied in with God, the living Spirit, that we cannot remain young and enthusiastic unless we know that we are one with that which knows no age and no burdens.” Excerpt From 365 Science of Mind Ernest Holmes…

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

1
365 April 8 1:32

50 weeks назад1:32

1:32

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. —REVELATION 21:1 "Fear is the great enemy of man. It is impossible for a person to do his best if he is filled with anxiety. Unless we live without fear today, we will dread tomorrow. Those who live in the dread of tomorrow generally harbor memories of things that were unpleasant in their previous experience and expect that more of this unpleasantness will transpire in the future. The present day in which they live is robbed of all peace and joy. This so disturbs the mind that restful sleep is impossible. Such people seldom rise in the morning filled with buoyant hope, joyful anticipation, and the natural enthusiasm and zest for living that we all need if we are to get the most out of life. Yesterday is forever past. We cannot relive it. No matter how we may regret what happened yesterday, it is impossible actually to live it over again; but too often in imagination, we do live it over again and again, and in so doing bring all the misery of yesterday into today. Learn to forget yesterday. After we have gone over it and learned by our mistakes, the thing to do is to correct those mistakes and forgive ourselves for anything we have done.” Excerpt From 365 Science of Mind Ernest Holmes…

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

1
365 April 7 1:27

50 weeks назад1:27

1:27

If the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. —ECCLESIASTES 11:3 "We are all spiritual and mental broadcasting stations. There is a Silent Force flowing from us in every direction at all times. How necessary it is that we assume the role of the announcer and the broadcaster. How necessary it is that we write our own program and deliver it ourselves. When a person speaks into a microphone in a broadcasting station, his words are carried to the far corners of the Earth, where they are reproduced. But the force that carries them is mechanical. It is a law, a vibration. And it is a law that actually reproduces the words he speaks, the intonations, the inflections. And now along with this word that is broadcast goes a picture, an image of his personality. This is what we see in television, as though he were suddenly present everywhere, and the picture looks like him because it was his image, his likeness, that created it.And so it is with the reaction of the Law of Good from a Power greater than ourselves. It always tends to bring back to us exactly what goes out. But we are always the broadcasters, and we can always change the pictures if we will.” Excerpt From 365 Science of Mind Ernest Holmes…

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

1
365 April 6 1:30

51 weeks назад1:30

1:30

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones. —PROVERBS 17:22 "All of us are rooted in the Mind of God. We did not plan it this way; this is the way it is. God is still the Supreme Power, and the Divine Spirit is still present with us no matter where we are. We must learn to tune in to the Mind of God, for when we do, we are turning in to the most dynamic Reality in the Universe. Do not be afraid to talk to God, always remembering that God speaks a certain kind of language and there is nothing negative in it. We believe in prayerful, affirmative meditation above everything else. We believe in actually talking to God and then letting God answer. But perhaps in our confusion we talked at God rather than to Him. We have told God how terrible everything is, how unhappy we are. Try this: Sit in complete repose, and then tell God how wonderful He is and how glad you are and how grateful. It is at times like these that we are really tuning in to the Divine, and the Divine will always respond to us. We will always receive the comfort and consolation we need, the inward sense of security and well-being that everyone must have to be happy and whole.” Excerpt From 365 Science of Mind Ernest Holmes…

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

1
365 April 2 1:11

51 weeks назад1:11

1:11

"Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me." —PSALM 51:10 "Life is an adventure in which we never know what is going to happen just beyond the turn of the road. But too often our today is filled with regrets over the past. If we could convince ourselves that the limitations of the past need not be carried into the future, what a happy outlook we would have. One of the outstanding things that Jesus taught was that the mistakes of yesterday can be canceled, that God’s creation is always taking place, and, no matter what the experiences of yesterday may have been, they can be changed. Jesus did not seem to think that this change required months and years of strenuous effort. Unlike those around him, he knew that God, or the Divine Spirit, wishes only Good for everyone. He knew that we are all rooted in Pure Spirit, in Perfect Life, and that at any moment we can so unify ourselves with the Power of Good that evil will disappear from our experience.” Excerpt From 365 Science of Mind Ernest Holmes…

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

1
365 April 1 1:33

51 weeks назад1:33

1:33

“I come that they might have life." —JOHN 10:10 "Let us turn toward the sun of eternal Life, the spiritual sun that cannot set and forever rises on the horizon of our own experience. Definitely and deliberately, we let go of every lost hope, every fear of want, every sense of lack, every hurt, because today we leave the tomb of doubt and enter the sanctuary of certainty. We roll away the stone of uncertainty from our consciousness; we find the resurrected, the Divine, and God-intended perfection and wholeness. We let go of every belief that we are lost or forlorn, because we know that the doorway from that tomb leads us away from all morbid thought. We are standing forevermore in the glory of an everlasting protection of the One Presence. We let go of all disease and disharmony. They slip back into the tomb of oblivion, for the spiritual body now rises trimphant in every cell; we are instantly renewed by the creative principle of eternal Life that is within us. We are alive and aware, and we know that the kingdom of God is here and is within us this moment. Thou art the center and circumference of my life, the beginningless and endless part of me, the eternal Reality of me, the everlasting Power within me. Thou art my whole being.” Excerpt From 365 Science of Mind Ernest Holmes…

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

1
365 March 31 - Substance and Supply 2:11

51 weeks назад2:11

2:11

Substance and Supply "Spiritual mind science cannot promise something for nothing. It does not teach that you can have anything you want, no matter what it is, or that your thought can precipitate a million dollars. It does, however, teach, and it can demonstrate, that a betterment of circumstances and conditions and relationships can be brought about through spiritual mind treatment. We believe that the great Intelligence of the Universe cannot lack for anything or that It can plan for Its creation to lack what expresses Its own Being. We may be certain that the Divine intends only good, only abundance for Its creation because It is the very essence of life and givingness. In spiritual mind treatment for success, for right action, and for right compensation, we work to know that Divine abundance is forever flowing into everything we do. We are guided by a Divine Intelligence and impelled to act on this guidance. While we do not expect someone suddenly to thrust a fortune upon us, we do expect that we shall be gradually led to something better and more abundant. We should expect a greater good than we have ever experienced or than we have ever known of anyone experiencing. Divine abundance is forever manifesting in my affairs. I desire to do only that which is good and constructive, life-giving and life-expressing. Therefore, I know that I shall prosper in everything I do. I exist in limitless possibilities, and infinite Good is right where I am. I believe that everything for complete self-expression is the law of my individual being. New thoughts, new ideas, new situations are forever unfolding before me. There are new opportunities for self-expression and for abundant life and love and happiness. This I expect, and this I accept." For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. —LUKE 11:10” Excerpt From 365 Science of Mind Ernest Holmes…

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

1
365 March 30 2:12

52 weeks назад2:12

2:12

Living Without Fear "Fear robs memory of happiness because it dwells upon the limitations and morbidities of the past. It robs the future of pleasurable and enthusiastic anticipation because it casts a shadow of its past into the future. It robs today of the possibility of fulfillment because it denies the good we might experience in the moment in which we live. How much better it would be if we could think as a child thinks, abandoning ourselves to the integrity of the miracle-working universe in which we live. If the warmth of the sun can melt an iceberg, why should it not follow that there must be something in us or operating through us that can dissolve any difficulty, remove any obstruction, or renew any human relationship that has been impaired. We should consciously practice having faith just as we would practice to become a musician. We should do mental exercises to build up our acceptance of Good. The process is simple enough since it finally resolves itself into very simple affirmations of conviction, but there must be a persistency until finally old thought patterns melt and give way to new ones. Today I cultivate the art of having faith. I affirm the reality of the Divine Presence in my life and deny everything that refutes it. As a child turns to its parents, so do I turn to that infinite Presence whose creative Law can do all things, and I accept the influx of all that makes for richer living. Because nothing is impossible to God, I believe that nothing is impossible to me through God’s Power in me. I am daring to believe in the greater good. I am forsaking all that has held me in bondage, and, uniting myself with faith, with expectation, and with the joy, I now live without fear." Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. —ROMANS 12:21 Excerpt From 365 Science of Mind Ernest Holmes…

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

1
365 March 26 2:22

1 year назад2:22

2:22

Dominion "Each one of us has access, immediately, in our own consciousness, to that absolute, unconditioned Presence that molds and makes things out of Itself by Itself directly becoming the thing It makes. The secret of effective prayer lies in the realization that there is a Power for Good in the universe and that we can use It. That subtle Presence we call Mind or Spirit is the Giver and we are the receiver. But how can it make the gift unless we accept it? One of the first things to do is to learn to expect and to accept the Divine nature flowing through everything we do. God is eternally present, and we are the instruments of Its expression. But only as much of the Divine Essence is ours to use as we permit to flow through our complete and unrestricted faith. To understand our unity with God is the beginning of wisdom. To realize that we can express our Divinity today should be the start of a conscious practice that will gradually conduct us to a greater and greater experience of life. Thus, we will demonstrate not only that an infinite Good exists, but that it is now operating in our experience. This is the purpose of the practice of the Science of Mind. Our consciousness of the indwelling Spirit and the embodiment of Its gifts bring us into the dominion of Good. Believing in the universal Presence as Power for Good, I now accept Its action in my life. I know that there is a strength and a vitality, a livingness flowing through me and out into everything I do or say or think. I am the very embodiment of this Divine Essence. There is no sense of weakness or lack of strength; rather the fullness and the completion of It is always present, always activated. I combine the belief I have in It with the conscious use I make of It, completely accepting and no longer rejecting the flow of this Power through me." When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee. —PROVERBS 2:10-11 Excerpt From 365 Science of Mind Ernest Holmes…

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

1
365 March 25 1:55

1 year назад1:55